Journal

The Contemporary Arts of Attica

E. C. Feiss

The Attica Book instigates an alternate history, where minimalism and mass incarceration emerge simultaneously on the Lower East Side.

Archival

The Fink Archive

Blank Forms

Catwalk leading to "Times Square," Attica Correctional Facility, New York

A collection of previously hidden photos exonerating the Attica Brothers, expropriated by human rights lawyer Elizabeth Fink.

Archival

Coming Together: A May Day Broadcast

Blank Forms

Six hours of music and interviews celebrating work inspired by the Attica rebellion.

Archival

The Meaning of Attica

Val Wilmer

Cover of Archie Shepp’s Attica Blues (detail), 1972).

An article based on an interview conducted with Archie Shepp, Beaver Harris, and William Kunstler for the November 1972 issue of Jazz Magazine, here translated from the French.

Essay

“Attica is in Front of Me”: Mingus, Rzewski, Shepp

David Grundy

Responses to the Attica rebellion by Frederic Rzewski, Archie Shepp, and Charles Mingus pursued the question: how to use the resources of improvisation to provide ways for Black life to survive in the American necropolis.