Aaron Gach is the founder of the Center for Tactical Magic and has a notable background. As part of his art training, he studied with a magician, a ninja, and a private investigator. Under the auspices of the Center for Tactical Magic he collaborates with a variety of artists, activists, and thinkers to produce projects exploring power relations, social transformation, and self-empowerment.
We interviewed Aaron while he was exhibiting the Tactical Ice Cream Unit at Creative Time’s “Democracy in America” exhibition in September of 2008. Aaron described the The Tactical Ice Cream Unit as “Combining a number of successful activist strategies (Food-Not-Bombs, Copwatch, Indymedia, infoshops, etc) into one mega-mobile, the TICU is the Voltron-like alter-ego of the cops’ mobile command center.”