Studio REV- produces creative media and public art that visiblizes issues faced by working families, new immigrants, and women.
We are a non-profit organization founded by artist Marisa Morán Jahn in 2001.
OUR AUDIENCE: Our work engages street vendors, domestic workers, taxi cab drivers, migrant workers who harvest our food — and their kids. Our audience is also lawmakers and policy makers, culture mongerers, and allied communities who will be inspired to think about an issue from a new perspective and hopefully be moved to act.
ABOUT US: We are artists, techies, immigrants, workers, women, and youth redistributing power to build socioeconomic and cultural equity.
We’ve directly impacted the lives of tens of thousands of individuals from historically underserved communities and reached millions more through speaking engagements at The United Nations, The White House Department of Labor, The Brooklyn Museum, the Venice Biennale of Architecture. Our stories have been amplified by media ranging from CNN, The New York Times, and Forbes to policy blogs to hometown newspapers across the United States.
We’ve made mobile studios, immersive installations, apps, books, augmented reality experiences, films (documentary, fiction, animation, hybrid), choreographed dances, character design (including one whose fame rivals Santa Claus), and more.
FEATURED WORKS
Volador
A Spanish-English illustrated, know-your-rights pandemic toolkit for all workers — even gig workers + undocumented immigrants!
CareForce One Travelogues
DOCUMENTARY FILM
Amplifying the voices of America’s fastest growing workforce — caregivers.
MOBILE STUDIO
accelerating the movement for domestic workers’ rights
Curated Exhibitions
A San Francisco-based storefront gallery (2000-2005) showcasing 33 exhibitions
Bibliobandido
PUBLIC ART, IMMERSIVE INSTALLATION
A living legend who eats stories — bigger than Santa Claus.
MEDIA INTERVENTION
Experimental films slipped or “slinked” into Uganda’s bootleg cinemas.
PERFORMATIVE INSTALLATION
Celebrating the knock-off, the simulacra, the pirated.
On art embedded within governments, industries, and electoral politics.
On ‘agonism,’ or a relationship built on mutual incitement and struggle.
Recipes for an Encounter
On the anticipatory nature of recipes together with their promise of what will unfold, take place, be consumed. “Guy Debord masquerading as Julia Child, or vice versa.” — ArtPractical
“[Studio REV-’s work] exemplifies the possibilities of art as social practice.” ”
Cross-Platform Campaigns
Augmented reality, interactive voice apps, audionovelas, comics, curriculum creation, character and costume design
Design for Movements
Logo design, branding, graphics for on-the-ground to social media campaigns, books, newsletters, etc.
“[Contratados] meshes worker solidarity with digital technology in a user-friendly format with the the street-level sensibility of the workers’ centers that aid migrant workers on the ground in their communities.”
Featured At
“[the Domestic Worker App] is one of five apps to help change the world.”
Team
Marisa Morán Jahn
Founder and Executive/Artistic Director
Jahn is an award-winning artist of Chinese and Ecuadorian descent. Characterizing her playful approach, MIT CAST writes, ‘[Jahn] introduces a trickster-like humor into public spaces and discourses, and yet it is a humor edged with political potency.” Since 1999, Jahn has taught in public schools, afterschool programs, worker centers, and more recently on a university level at Columbia University, MIT’s Art, Culture, and Technology, and The New School and is an internationally recognized speaker at venues such as The White House, Tribeca Film Festival, Creative Time, National Fine Arts Museum of Taiwan, Museum of Modern Art, and more. She has exhibited works at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, ArtBrussels, Asian Art Museum, ICA Philadelphia, New Museum, and more. Her work has been reviewed in The New York Times, CNN, BCC, ArtForum, Art in America, The Fader, Wall Street Journal, and more and received awards from Creative Capital, Anonymous Was a Woman, Sundance, Visible Project, and more.
Caroline Garcia
Collaborator, Performer
Caroline Garcia (lives and works in New York + Sydney) is an interdisciplinary artist from Sydney, Australia. She works across live performance and video through a hybridized aesthetic of cross-cultural dance, ritual practice, new media, and the sampling of popular culture and colonial imagery. Caroline’s recent projects include Flygirl, developed at the EMPAC Residency, facilitated by Australia Council for the Arts in 2017, and performances at the Manila Biennale, Art Central Hong Kong, and The Vera List Center for Arts and Politics NYC, all in 2018. Caroline was one of the eight artists selected for Primavera 2018: Young Australian Artists at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, and is the 2018/19 recipient of the American Australian Association’s AUSART Fellowship Award.
Anjum Asharia
Co-Pilot
Anjum combines her skills as a designer with rigorous research, and razor sharp analysis to produce works that straddle the arts, media, civic/cultural engagement, and social change. She received her B.A. in Philosophy from Welseley College Anjum worked with the Boston Center for Refugee Health and Human Rights, and the Family Literacy Involvement Program at the Children's Museum of Houston
Advisors
Sunny Bates, Braintrust, TED Talks, Kickstarter; Entrpreneur
Kendal Henry, Curator, Artist, Public Art Consultant
Amanda Hickman, Media Strategist and Data Journalist; Adjunct, The City University of New York
Larisa Mann (aka "DJ Ripley"), Co-Founder, Dutty Artz
Christiane Paul, Curator, Whitney Museum
Sujatha Singhal, Educator; Instructional Designer
Tricia Wang, Global Tech Ethnographer
Mabel O. Wilson, Architect; Professor, Columbia University
Previous Advisors
Aina Abiodun, Immersive Media-Maker; Founder, Storycode
Kadambari Baxi, Architect; Professor, Barnard College
Cornel West, Scholar, Union Theological Seminary
2019 SUMMER CREW
Caroline Garcia, Performance Artist
Collaborator: Sonia Colunga (The New School)
Mentees via New York Arts Practicum: Sam Fresquez (Arizona State University), Vivienne Le (Stanford)
Partners
“[Studio REV-] injects creative thinking into the the bloodstream of workaday culture..”
Funders
