Witnessing (2022) responds to the ongoing problem of police violence in our communities and, in particular, the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Rayshard Brooks, as well as the countless others affected by police violence. The project reimagines a project from two decades ago, Witness: Perspectives on Police Violence created by Bradley McCallum in collaboration with Jacqueline Tarry. Witness addressed racism and injustice among New York City police by repurposing the Red Emergency call boxes that were found on many street corners at the time. The reimagination of this project calls attention to the fact that despite the significant amount of time between the two projects, there has been no significant reduction in the death rates of people of color by the police. Artist Bradley McCallum has collaborated with many of the original project partners including the Center for Constitutional Rights to create new installations and programming in partnership with MoCADA that contextualize the protests of the Black Lives Matter movement and offer a renewed platform to honor recent victims and survivors.

In the 1990s, most street corners in New York City had red emergency call boxes that were in place to alert police stations about crime and violence. Bradley McCallum and Jacqueline Tarry transformed these iconic structures, animating them with light and sound including video and audio documentation of testimonies from those who had experienced violence at the hands of the very authorities meant to protect them.