S.A. Bachman

S.A. Bachman[1] (b. Columbus, Ohio,) is an artist, advocate and educator. She is the co-founder of the artist-activist collaboratives, Think Again and Louder Than Words. Her art practice examines the insidiousness of sexism, white privilege and conformity as well as how the mass media structures conceptions of race, class and gender. Bachman was a Senior Lecturer at The School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston[2] from 1991-2011 and a Senior Lecturer at Otis College of Art and Design,[3] Los Angeles from 2009-2014. She resides in Los Angeles.

Photographic Work

Through a confluence of image appropriation, language and monumental scale, Bachman's photomontages examine racism, sexism, and conformity. By manipulating representations of suburban malaise and out-of-context advertisements, Bachman turns the seemingly innocent, but obviously offending, image against itself. Her photographs disclose consumer appetite and the mass media's construction of gender and white privilege.

Collaboratives

Louder Than Words

Founded in 2013 with Neda Moridpour, Louder Than Words is an activist art collective that targets sexual assault, domestic violence, women and migration, LGBTQ equality, and jail reform. Bachman and Moridpour enlist art in the service of social action, civic dialogue and public address while examining how misogyny and capitalism endanger women and the disenfranchised.

Projects include: Women On the Move, a 26-foot truck transformed into a mobile billboard and resource center addressing sexual assault, harassment and domestic violence. The emphasis is on the particular challenges faced by women whose experiences are the most marginalized: those who often fear reporting due to retaliation, fraught relationships with law enforcement, stigma or fear of detention and deportation.

Louder Than Words distributes all of their posters and other printed matter free-of-charge.

Think Again

Founded with David John Attyah, Think Again (1997–2012) expects something political from art and uses images to challenge indifference. Their work — mobile billboards, outdoor projections, guerrilla interventions, digital murals, and viral poster campaigns — combines activism, cultural theory, and sociological research to create a visual language for activating civic dialogue. THINK AGAIN has explored a unique range of issues including queer liberation, economic inequality, the ways capitalist culture conspires to jeopardize the outnumbered, undocumented labor and the treatment of immigrants, racism, militarization, gentrification and displacement, and gender parity.

The collaborative views cultural work as essential to affecting social change and engaging people in the political process. Their projects privilege face-to-face interactions: handing out postcards at Pride parades, parking mobile billboards in front of City Halls and grocery stores, and sending digital posters to activists mobilizing against injustice. Their printed matter is distributed free-of-charge through art spaces, grassroots community organizations, unions and the internet. Documentation of the work of THINK AGAIN can be found here

Awards, Exhibitions, Collections

Bibliography

Louder than Words
  • Advocate Magazine, "A Taco Truck On Every Corner And Now This," Isfahani-Hammond, Alexandra, June 15, 2017[22]
  • Truthout Magazine, "Homeland Insecurity: Jews and Muslims United Against Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault," Isfahani-Hammond, Alexandra, May 17, 2017[23]
  • Woman’s Building / Quetzal Gets Down / LOUDER THAN WORDS, Radio Interview with Neda Moridpour and S.A. Bachman about WOMEN ON THE MOVE, Feminist Magazine, KPFK Radio, May 2, 2017
  • Ms. Magazine Blog, "Grab This, Donald," Isfahani-Hammond, Alexandra, May 1, 2017[24]
  • Counterpunch Online Magazine, "Women on the Move: Can Three Women and a Truck Quell the Tide of Sexual Violence and Domestic Abuse?," Isfahani-Hammond, Alexandra, April 17, 2017[25]

Think Again
  • Monograph: A Brief History of Outrage, THINK AGAIN (David John Attyah and S.A. Bachman), Distributed Art Publishers, 2003
  • Afterimage, Vol. 38, Issue 2, Fall 2010: Participatory Politics
  • Graphic Agitation 2, Liz McQuiston, Phaidon, London, 2004
  • Boston Globe, "Power meets vulnerability: Wall mural and exhibit at the Worcester Art Museum tackle social issues," Kate McQuaid, December 8, 2008
  • Social Text (#80 Technoscience,) Amy Villarejo, “Activist Technologies: THINK AGAIN,” Duke University Press, Durham, North Carolina, 2004
  • Peace Signs: The Anti-War Movement Illustrated, James Mann, English, French, German edition; Edition Olms, and Posters Against A War, Spanish edition; Gustavo Gili, 2003/2004
  • Los Angeles Times, “Drive-by Campaign to Project Points of View,” Mike Boehm, October 6, 2006
  • Interview with THINK AGAIN: Big, Red and Shiny, Issue #7, 2003

Solo Work
  • Reframings: New American Feminist Photographies, Neumaier, Diane, Temple Press, 1995[26]
  • Aperture, Our Town, Aperture Foundation Inc., 1992
  • Day, Ken, “Beyond Aesthetics: Artworks of Conscience,” New Art Examiner, December 1991
  • Goldberg, David Theo, "Democracy Inc., On David Duke," Artforum, January 1991
  • Sozanski, Edward, "Art on the Theme of Growing Up Female," The Philadelphia Inquirer, May 9, 1991

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  1. https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/c7fecf_b52aeb67a2af46338f0063ff5eb5bec4.pdf
  2. https://www.sabachman.com
  3. https://www.sabachman.com/louder-than-words
  4. https://www.sabachman.com/think-again
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