Sabrina Artel is the creator of Trailer Talk, multi-media stories from America’s kitchen table. Her weekly half-hour radio show explores community engagement through conversations about culture, politics, the arts and the environment. First person narratives are powerful resources for changing public discourse around social justice issues.
Artel seeks to enrich public understanding and participation by creating new strategies, a civic ecology for conveying information by locating the art of journalism and the journalism of art inside one another, by providing an active and permeable lens of social practice that she has named Performance Journalism.
By inviting civic discourse on the street, Trailer Talk creates a mobile town hall bringing diverse and often opposing voices together.
Trailer Talk is mobile media in action. It is an emerging genre using the travel trailer as a performative device, presenting a public forum and documenting the exchange of information, making journalism a living form. It acknowledges and works within the larger ecosystem of site-specificity by creating the framework for building narratives.
The Trailer Talk project is a hybrid art practice that includes an interdisciplinary approach to create work across mediums. It includes live performance, direct storytelling, interactive conversations on -site and on-line, radio features, sound pieces, a living archive and multi media projects.
Learn More: http://sabrinaartel.com/