Archives of Radical Joy gathers a collection of print editions by Black & White Projects artists that documents joy as a deliberate, embodied act. In a time when exhaustion and crisis often dominate public narrative, this room asks: What does it mean to witness joy? To preserve it? To treat delight, play, intimacy, and celebration as worthy of record?

“Radical Joy” does not have to mean loud or grand. It may be intimate, quiet. It may be playful or defiant. It may be difficult to access or a struggle to find. Whether simple or complex, radical joy is a movement toward liberation.

Each 13×19 edition in the series functions as an archival entry into collective memory — a document of a radical moment, gesture, or feeling, a record of joy as resistance, as survival, as play, as intimacy, as reclamation. Some works remain fixed; others are hand-altered, annotated, or reworked, suggesting that archives are not static. They are living records shaped by those who hold them. They are moments worth witnessing and preserving for future generations to pull from.

Together, these prints form a collective folio — a gathering of evidence that joy persists, evolves, and insists on being seen.

Check out the print series and artist merchandise featured at the fair in our new shop!

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