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How Branding and Pop Culture Impact Black Civic Engagement
short film
Co-director/Assitant Editor/Producer
Fall 2020
Converse


Renowned conceptual artist and co-founder of For Freedoms, Hank Willis Thomas, and designer and founder of Denim Tears, Tremaine Emory, visit the stomping grounds of Tremaine’s youth in Jamaica, Queens, NYC. In the midst of COVID-19 and merely days before the 2020 election Hank and Tremaine take a moment to reflect on their collaborative efforts to support the Black vote while keeping their eyes on the future. Hank and Tremaine discuss how Black ingenuity in fashion, music, art and branding collabs can be a tool towards shifting the culture of civic engagement in America.


Zion Estrada (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist researcher living on Gabrielleno/Tongva/Chumash Land. Her work flows between archival assemblage filmmaking, sonic collage production and experiential design centering human and more-than-human (re)connection.

Zion’s  experimental collage language in film and sonic works often use layering of field recordings, found sounds and carefully curated sound clips that score a line of discourse that complicate temporality, history and meaning making. Her practice is informed by the palimpsest and Pauline Olivero’s Deep Listening. 

She is most interested in the non-verbal and more-than-human qualities of storytelling from the African diaspora (specifically the Caribbean) and how sounds hold the spirits of the past and the alchemic power to magnetize communities, movement, moods, and healing. She draws from the traditions of Black Trans abolitionists care making, sex worker solidarity,  doula presence practices and movement architects love of release.

Zion is currently is practicing in emergent transformative justice work with Abolition Dream lab practicing in radical learning communities how to prepare, account, release and re-story the harms we have caused, the roots the harms have in culture and systemic violence  while centering care, healing and rest.

Zion is the Creative Director of Black Discourse, co-founder of Wild Grass Design + Research Lab and owner of BZE Consultant LLC.  She holds a M.A. Ed focused in participatory research and linquistics.

PREVIOUSLY
Director of Programs at BLD PWR; holds 10yrs as educator and curriculum developer.

CURRENTLY
Board member at Citizens of Culture
Exhibitor at the Ghetto Biennale in Jacmel, Haiti 2024
Participant in MIT Worlding Project Community 2023