Packing and Cracking
created by Rachel Karp and Joseph Amodei
January 9, 2020 @ 8pm
Tickets: $20
Directed by Rachel Karp
Designed by Joseph Amodei
Do we choose our politicians, or do our politicians choose us? PACKING AND CRACKING is an interactive mapmaking event about gerrymandering: the pervasive practice of politicians choosing their voters rather than the other way around. Through participatory drawing and map-drawing games, PACKING AND CRACKING uses critical cartography, historical accounts of the first gerrymanders, and interviews with people dealing with gerrymandering today to show how easy and disenfranchising gerrymandering can be and ask what, if anything, we should do about it.
