Pop Up Community-Based Exhibits
WADE’s Pop Up Community-Based Exhibits transform research, lived experience, and social justice inquiry into immersive, accessible visual storytelling. These installations activate public and semi-public spaces—galleries, community centers, theaters, and unexpected sites—inviting audiences to engage with urgent issues through art, data, and embodied experience. Rooted in a trauma-informed lens, each exhibit is designed to humanize complex subjects such as gender-based violence, equity, and systemic harm, translating statistics and scholarship into emotionally resonant encounters.
Through interactive elements, community participation, and interdisciplinary collaboration with artists, researchers, and advocacy partners, these pop-up exhibits become temporary spaces of reflection, dialogue, and collective witnessing. By meeting audiences where they are, WADE expands access to critical conversations and creates environments where education, remembrance, and action can coexist.
unspoken//unbroken is a multidisciplinary public program that uses live performance and a curated gallery exhibition to raise awareness about domestic violence, honor survivors, and foster community dialogue. Through movement, music, visual art, and interactive experiences, the program creates a trauma-informed, emotionally resonant space that educates audiences, connects them to critical support services, and promotes healing, advocacy, and prevention.
UPCOMING EVENT:
unspoken//unbroken Returns to Manhattan with One-Day Community Pop-Up at Fridman Gallery
A multidisciplinary public program confronting domestic violence and femicide through art, music, and collective care
unspoken//unbroken, a multidisciplinary public program raising awareness about domestic violence, will present the second phase of its project as a one-day, community-based pop-up event on Monday, March 16, 2026, at Fridman Gallery in Manhattan. Building on work initiated during Domestic Violence Awareness Month in October, this March presentation expands the project’s reach through immersive installation, live music, somatic practice, and dialogue.
At the center of the day is Every Ten Minutes, a time-based, reimagined installation conceived by Giada Matteini and designed by Colleen Kong-Savage. The work features over 60 large paper flowers, each representing a woman lost to femicide. Every ten minutes, one flower is removed to reveal a timestamp beneath it—an unfolding visual reminder that femicide continues beyond this single day. Digital elements developed in collaboration with Sai Ram Ved Vijapurapu allow each flower to share the story and memory of the woman it represents, extending the installation’s impact beyond the physical space.
This presentation continues Giada Matteini’s Garden of the Taken interactive series—artworks that confront the ongoing reality of femicide in the United States and invite audiences into active witnessing and remembrance. To further amplify access and education, Corinne Hart will create a dedicated website offering audiences entry to WADE’s research, data, and educational resources connected to the project.
Throughout the day, the gallery will host multiple opportunities for reflection, connection, and collective care, including live music by Ai Isshiki, a somatic workshop, and an evening Happy Hour with live jazz by Leah Hinton.
Event Details
Monday, March 16, 2026
11:00 AM–7:00 PM
Fridman Gallery
169 Bowery, New York, NY 10002
All events are free and open to the public.
The gallery may be visited at any time between 11:00 AM and 7:00 PM.
Schedule of Events
11:00 AM–7:00 PM
Every Ten Minutes — Time-based installation1:00–3:00 PM
Somatic workshops with live music by Ai Isshiki4:30–6:30 PM
Happy Hour with live jazz by Leah Hinton
Credits
Curator and Exhibition Lead:
Giada Matteini
Collaborators:
Jon Allaire, Marissa Chen, Carissa Dahlia, John Eng, Corinne Hart, Leah Hinton, Ai Isshiki, Alissa Khatwani, Colleen Kong-Savage, The National Center on Domestic Violence, Trauma and Mental Health, Plushie, and Sai Ram Ved Vijapurapu
Produced by: WADE (Wandering Avian Dance Experience)
This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
Through art, dialogue, and interactive experiences, unspoken//unbroken transforms awareness into action—educating, honoring, and mobilizing communities in the ongoing work to end domestic violence.
Previous iterations of this project include:
unspoken//unbroken
October 10, 2025
Center for Performance Research, Brooklyn, New York
unspoken/unbroken
November 22, 2025
Centro Didattico Polifunzionale, Carmignano, Italy