Robert Biedrzycki is an interdisciplinary artist, scholar, and activist who uses performance to study U.S. carceral power. His research explores methods of incarceration used to organize and manage social disposability, and the grassroots movements fighting to resist these forces. Areas of interest include: critical performance ethnography, performance pedagogy, Black performance theory, Marxist theory, critical legal studies and critical race studies. Robert is a prison abolitionist and social justice activist committed to building a world without prisons.