@CPR | WADE: unspoken//unbroken

unspoken//unbroken is a multidisciplinary public event that integrates live dance performance by Keerati Jinakunwiphat and Petra Zanki with a curated gallery exhibition by Giada Matteini in observance of Domestic Violence Awareness Month. The project aims to raise awareness about the profound impact of domestic violence, honor survivors, and foster community dialogue.

Exhibition title: The Garden of the Taken. Femicides are too often reduced to statistics, stripped of the complexity of the lives they represent. This exhibition insists on a deeper form of witnessing. Using flowers as both artistic medium and data, the works transform remembrance into a visual archive. Each bloom marks an intersection — race, age, migration, sexuality, disability, class — so that patterns of vulnerability and resilience become visible. Together, these floral constellations honor individual lives while exposing the structures that shaped their loss.

Data Visualization: In collaboration with the NYU Law Public Interest Law Center and the Tisch ITP program. This visualization will serve as a central component of the exhibition, transforming legal data and historical timelines into an accessible, emotionally resonant experience. This exhibition humanizes the data and draws attention to the legal gaps, progress, and challenges that continue to shape the lived realities of domestic violence survivors.

Live Performance: One hour performance with works developed through WADE's Full ON Subject Residency in collaboration with NYU Tisch Dance. Resident Choreographers: Keerati Jinakunwiphat & Petra Zanki.

WADE (Wandering Avian Dance Experience) is a women-led performing arts company that merges art and social justice to amplify the voices of women, nonbinary individuals, and historically underrepresented artists. Through residencies, educational programs, and curated festivals across the U.S. and Europe, WADE creates transformative platforms where art becomes activism, addressing gender-based violence, advancing LGBTQIA+ rights, and fostering a growing coalition for systemic change.

This programming is supported in part by New York University's Tisch Dean's Faculty Research Grant.

Host or Publisher CPR- Center for Performance Research