Jacob Christopher Hammes

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Jacob C Hammes is an interdisciplinary artist, arts organizer and educator based in Philadelphia. Working primarily in sculpture, drawing and sound, Hammes' work explores themes of late capitalist anxieties and how we constitute ourselves as individuals within a backdrop of time/labor precarity. Recently, he has moved into comedy and joke writing with his 2020 book entitled "101 Jokes About the Working Class," a collection of (mostly) Leftist jokes and illustrations, and "The Grand Ballroom of Doom," a biweekly comic strip depicting the brutality of lat stage capitalism as absurdist comedy. Hammes has recently received funding from the Knight Foundation to produce a sound piece for radio featuring interviews with activists that suffered police violence during recent social justice movements.