Project Interchange is A live dialogue between poets in Albuquerque and Santa Fe

contemplating connection, community, and the differences and similarities between our two cities

The text conversation is projected live on large-scale, outdoor walls in both cities

These conversations expand from guiding questions about our relationship to one another

Though only separated by 56 miles, Santa Fe and Albuquerque are divided by socio-economic and cultural factors which inform our experiences of each place. 

Project Interchange seeks to explore this gap and to offer expansive dialog about those factors that separate us and those that connects us. This project offers a space that seeks to expand how we understand and connect to each other and ourselves. 

The significance and the innovation of Interchange reside in this project’s capacity to expand notions of public art to include collective, widely accessible public engagement in the artwork production, in the seamless integration of text and image, and in the use of existing urban infrastructure as sites. It is public art that is fleeting and responsive and proposes fluid dialogue about the shared experience of a place.

The public is invited to use this website to submit responses to the questions that Project Interchange poses.

April 28, 2023

The first iteration of Project Interchange was Friday April 28, from 8-10 PM at Fusion Theater in Albuquerque and The Railyard in Santa Fe.

Poets in Albuquerque included:

  • Sara Rivera

  • Valerie Martinez

  • Beca Alderete Baca

  • Amaris Ketcham

Poets in Santa Fe included:

  • Edie Tsong

  • Darryl Lorenzo Wellington

  • Loretta Trujillo