On November 9th, Patrick Costello, Benjy Russell, and Jared Packard sat down to collectively consider how the mutability and pluralities of queer identity and changing attitudes toward queerness influence the ways in which queer artists operate in rural spaces.
Read More“In order for this virtual space to exist, all audiovisual data from each participant is compressed and squashed. Each perspective in the space is contingent to the internet connectivity and technical resources of each other.”
Read More“…we also like to think of hope and what water utopias are possible, as well as speculation, which is also an important aspect in the project--thinking about ecological fragility as a means for fictions and alternative paths, alternate futures.”
Read MoreOn September 28th, Ashley Ahearn, Sarah Rowe, and Lee Running sat down to talk about how creative practice redistributes anthropocentric hierarchies of dominance and control through co-becoming with our more-than-human neighbors.
Read More“I want to take good care of my relatives, my more-than-human relatives, because they take such good care of me. Who would I be if not for the land and the soil and the sky and the air and the plants and the animals and rocks? Who would any of us be?”
Read MoreOn July 13th, Rosela del Bosque, Daril Fortis, Allegra Hangen, and Enero y Abril sat down to take a closer look at the increasingly important role borders play in decolonial discourse as fluid spaces where knowledge is produced, embodied, and circulated.
Read More“In many ways, flowers are my activism. Their intersection with justice, equity, economics, and environmentalism has helped me understand their interconnectedness. For that, I am grateful to them.”
Read More“At the end of May, members of the Alternate Currents Working Group met with the Naturalist School at Waubonsie State Park to listen to bird song, walk the hills and ravines, and discuss ideas about place and space.”
Read More“What is belonging? Some say it’s your home, the physical home where you find comfort. Others say it’s where you’re needed. Both are true, but in my experience, it’s something else.”
Read MoreOn May 9th, Karin Campbell, Inkpa Mani, Moko Fukuyama, and Nathaniel Ruleaux met on Zoom to discuss the porous connections between monuments, memory, and place and how misrepresentations of our collective histories in public spaces shape cultural norms and values.
Read More“The current state of things can have the burdensome effect of making ‘LANDBACK wins’ feel far off for most. But in fighting this fight together, Indigenous communities find allies, which strengthens the people, the causes, and the hope for a better world.”
Read MoreOn March 2nd, Dr. Kate Beane, Andrea Carlson, Lydia Chesewalla, and Marisa Cummings came together to discuss how cultural institutions that espouse a progressive politics of inclusion can work with Native communities to repair the histories of violence and dispossession foundational to their formation.
Read More“When it comes to the museum going into neighborhoods or communities, they really have to think about the characteristics of the community and what that community is actually about.”
Read More“La Berge offers a comparative look at the aesthetics of socially engaged art, covering an impressive array of artists that both incorporate and represent a general condition of living beyond the wage.”
Read MoreOn August 19th, Natalie Bell, Mary Lawson, and Jared Ledesma sat down with Jared Packard for a virtual discussion about inclusive curatorial practices that center making projects, performances, and exhibitions with community instead of about.
Read More“I want you to come in, and learn, and share, and do what you can. Ultimately, we're trying to save our culture. We're trying to save our language. You can't let something as trivial as money get in the way of that.”
Read More“I think that it can be really hard to work with any type of structure that is rooted in capitalism on anything that is inherently non-dominant culture driven belief systems, on anything that is based in gift ecology, on anything that asks for collective ownership.”
Read MoreDuring a virtual conversation on May 27th, panelists Rebecca Carew, Alex O’Hanlon, and Caitlin Osborn sat down with moderator Lillian Snortland for a virtual discussion to reimagine how philanthropy in the arts might match calls for solidarity with meaningful reform.
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