Phil America

Phil is a performance artist, activist, teacher and documentarian whose work challenges the concept of borders and boundaries - inviting communities to engage with experiences beyond their own and pushing them to ask difficult questions about belonging and control. In this episode Ethan and Phil discuss his Unauthorized Gallery series as a series of investigations and learnings from living amongst Transit Graffiti Artists, in Thai and Burmese slums, being incarcerated, living with houseless populations in California and with Berber Nomads in North Africa. Phil has a breadth of perspectives on love, art and activism that he shares from his life abroad, immersed in cultures beyond his origin and close to home. Find Phil at www.philamerica.com and on instagram @philamerica