Ciarán Shorts’, iHope (2021) integrates spoken word poetry with snapshots of the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests. Shorts’ poem narrates his “personal response to simultaneous feelings of grief and pride seeing so many gathered in the fight against systemic racism and police militarization.” As the video progresses, coloring each image along the stanza lines, we’re left with the challenge to find hope in the truth of his words.
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Check out an interview with Ciarán Short.
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Ciarán Short is a black artist, writer, and activist born and raised in New York City. His work explores New York culture and tackles issues of race and masculinity. In 2019, he co-founded the All Street Journal, a protest group utilizing art to increase visibility and support the Black Lives Matter movement and housing justice in New York. Additionally, his writing has been featured in publications such as The Independent, Newsday, and Honeysuckle Magazine. He has most recently completed an artist’s residency with Localhost Gallery and has an upcoming photography installation at Cornell University. He will obtain his masters degree from the New School in the spring of 2022 from the School of Media Studies.
