Born Again Labor Museum (BALM)

Evolving installation, traveling museum, and performance by Adam Turl + Tish Turl (2019-ongoing)


Check out the BALM website. Below: Images from BALM.

YDSA comrades making BLM and anti-debt protest materials at BALM (2022).

BALM “Slow Apocalypse Room” in Carbondale (2022).

YDSA comrades making reproductive justice protest materials at BALM (2022).

BALM “Main Hall” in Carbondale (2022).

Carbondale union Starbucks workers organizing at BALM (2022).

BALM “Memorial Gallery” in Carbondale (2022).


BALM in Carbondale (2020-present)

BALM’s Communist Manifesto Distribution Project (2021).

For Tonight Only performing at a Defend Atlanta Forest benefit at BALM (2022). Photo from Children of the Rat Temple.

Snek Rallies the Oil Snakes, while Aelita Beheads Elon Musk, and Possum Sings Against the Rain. Mixed-media collage and painting on canvas tarp (2021).

Burger King Parking Lot’s Wife. Salt packets, glue, pedestal (2021).

Social Resurrection Task-Prints. Digital prints, cotton, ash, acrylic, clothes pins, clotheslines (2020-ongoing).

Wounded Tool Library at BALM

Wounded Tool Library at BALM

page from Locust Review #1

BALM poster (2022).

page from Locust Review #1

BALM poster (2019)

BALM in Las Vegas (2019-2020)

BALM performance/reading experiment (2019)

BALM artifacts on display (2019)

BALM artifacts on display (2019).

BALM artifacts on display (2019)

BALM artifacts on display (2019)

Tish Markley working on BALM (2019).

BALM performance/reading experiment (2019)

Walter Benjamin’s “Angel of History” and “Eema” from the short story “Space Goths” (2019).

“Wounded Tool Library” (BALM) (2019)

Gib” puppet based on the short story “Space Goths” (2019)

“Pirate Jenny” puppet “based” on the poem by Brecht (2019)