The evening continues at Walls Turned Sideways with a gallery tour and program.

Organized with incarcerated veteran artists, War Abolition foregrounds visions of freedom, refusal, and collective survival that emerge from within the carceral state. The exhibition begins from a core abolitionist insight: prisons are not separate from war, nor merely analogous to it, but part of the domestic infrastructure through which militarized violence is organized, racialized, and sustained. 

For decades, incarcerated organizers and anti-prison activists have understood prisons as tools of counterinsurgency, colonial control, racial capitalism, and state violence. As Orisanmi Burton argues, prisons are “state strategies of race war, class war, colonization, and counterinsurgency,” but also “domains of militant contestation” where captive communities create zones of autonomy, freedom, and liberation.