Everybody Is Gone
Co-created by Jessica Batke, Mukaddas Mijit, John Bair, Nicolas Benacerraf, Marina McClure, Lisa Ross, Michael Weinberg
Lead Producer: BJ Evans
Director of Performance: Marina McClure
Director of Design: Nic Benacerraf
Director of Operations: Michael Weinberg
Director of Communications: John Bair
Associate Designer: Afsoon Pajoufar
Everybody Is Gone is a large-scale art installation and performance whose process and outcomes are centered around offering reparative spaces to the Uyghur community, an ethnic Muslim minority group that is currently experiencing extreme oppression at the hands of the Chinese government. The project seeks to draw widespread public attention to the crisis, facilitate collective action to end it, and counteract the Chinese government’s objectives by providing a platform and resources for Uyghur art and culture to be preserved, perpetuated, and celebrated.