The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum

The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum presented a participatory mail art project, “The ILSSA Ballot for Twenty Twenty,” created by artists Bridget Elmer and Emily Larned in concurrence with the Twenty Twenty exhibition.

“The ILSSA Ballot for Twenty Twenty” encouraged participants to reclaim language, parse dichotomies, and give voice to perspectives unrepresented in the rhetoric surrounding the 2020 US presidential election. Participants in the project received a custom designed, letterpress printed ballot, with an invitation to mail-in their responses for display at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum.

The project grew cumulatively throughout the duration of the Twenty Twenty exhibition concluding on Sunday, March 14, 2021.

ILSSA stands for Impractical Labor in Service of the Speculative Arts, a union for reflective creative practice established in 2008 as a collaboration between the artists. ILSSA has a long-standing practice of publishing participatory, contemplative tools and resources, which often take the form of call-and-response.

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