Artist-run independent broadcasting platform amplifying narratives of complexity, solidarity, contradiction and inspiration in the Arts.

Launched in 2014, Broken Boxes was created to transmit ideas between working Artists. The project shares the lived experiences and world building strategies of contemporary Artists in order to archive collective strength while considering how Art and imagining may unbind us from collective social trauma. This long-form interview podcast reflects the vulnerability and strength of the Artist while acknowledging the many variations of an Artists practiced values including those of the activist, advocate, disruptor or culture activator.

Broken Boxes maintains that complexity is resilience. By actively practicing long term alliance through communication strategy, this work amplifies Artists at the forefront of global and regional impact who are creating new ways to see our existence through Art, organizing and advocacy. This project promotes deeper understanding, healing and solidarity as we move collectively towards witnessing each other and the world in new ways.

WHO WE ARE

Ginger Dunnill - Producer and Host

Originally from Maui, Hawai’i, New Mexico based creative Ginger Dunnill is a producer, journalist, curator, community organizer and sound artist. She collaborates with artists globally, creating work that inspires human connection, promotes plurality and advocates for social justice. Ginger is the founder of Broken Boxes Podcast, the decade long celebrated underground broadcasting project amplifying systemically undervalued voices in the arts. In 2017, Ginger received an Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts - 516 ARTS Fulcrum Fund Award on behalf of Broken Boxes to realize an exhibition and publication featuring the work and ideas of over 40 artists featured on the project. As a practicing artist, Ginger has exhibited internationally including at IoDeposito, Italy, Washington Project for The Arts, Washington, DC and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. Over the past two decades Ginger has produced numerous social engagement projects, community programs and public exhibitions in collaboration with other artists and activists. She is currently working as a creative advisor for numerous prominent artists and musicians and touring the world as a performer.

Cannupa Hanska Luger - Host

Cannupa Hanska Luger is an acclaimed multidisciplinary artist with a studio practice in New Mexico, who creates monumental installations, sculpture and performance to communicate urgent stories of 21st Century Indigeneity. Born on the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota, Luger is an enrolled member of the Three Affiliated Tribes of Fort Berthold and is Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara and Lakota. Luger’s bold visual storytelling presents new ways of seeing our collective humanity while foregrounding an Indigenous worldview. His work has been exhibited at The National Gallery of Art, DC, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gardiner Museum, Toronto and the National Center for Civil and Human Rights, Georgia. Luger has been awarded fellowships from Guggenheim, United States Artists, Creative Capital, Smithsonian and Joan Mitchell Foundation.

ACCOUNTABILITY

Broken Boxes Podcast aims to provide recognition and celebration for the intersections where creative people connect, find relationship to each other, build solidarity and heal. The work of Broken Boxes stakes no claim as representative for any one community represented on this project. Broken Boxes was created explicitly to amplify and support the plurality of the creative human experience. This work is strictly not for profit and any funding that may be raised or donated supports basic production maintenance, honorarium support for Artists who participate or to directly fund projects that celebrate the work of the Artists featured.

Zero hate tolerance: The work created on this platform is explicitly about upholding plurality and solidarity across all human experiences and this work has zero tolerance for any lateral violence and hate including exceptionalism, nationalism, binary, cancel culture or othering in any way.

Contact: brokenboxespodcast[at]gmail[dot]com