Anna Wexler works with text, image and ritually configured performance to distill specific legacies of structural violence and visionary resistance. Recent individual and collaborative projects have responded to the video surveillance of Haitian hotel workers in Boston, military production at the height of the Iraq War, and constructions of patriarchal incest by French male Surrealist artists and writers. She considers the opportunity to participate in the ritual healing traditions of Haitian Vodou and Cuban Santería to be the pivotal moment in her education as an interdisciplinary artist. She is greatly inspired by diasporic avant-garde practices in which aesthetic innovation and acute needs for social transformation are fused.