A collaborative publication from our 2022 Alternate Currents cohort, This Place: An Alternate Currents Reader, collects and anthologizes Working Group members creative inquires into broad questions around the social, economic, and ecological dimensions that shape our understanding of what it means to be in, of, or from a “place.”

The publication is presented in three overlapping and interlocking thematic sections: Orienting, Belonging, and Relating. Cohort members in the first section find their bearings by orienting their work toward mapping and remapping urban landscapes, their histories, and their futures. Personal experiences of cultural self-determination expand and reshape notions of belonging in the second section. In the third section, group members work to foreground reciprocal relationships between humans, plants, and animals that deepen our understanding of what it means to be in, of, or from a place.

Punctuating the work in this publication are transcripts from conversations that add insight and offer a conceptual underpinning for group members’ individual and collective investigations into the intersections of politics, place, and artistic practice.

All of these things and inexpressibly more, this place is a powerful commons for ideation, exploration, and finding joy in the privilege of being together.

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2022 Alternate Currents Cohort Members: Katie Bettin, Caitlin Cass, Daniel Castañeda (Sedra D’), Shannon Elder, Alex Jacobsen, Holly Lukasiewicz, David Muñoz, Nathaniel Ruleaux, Lee Running, and Joelle Sandfort.

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ISBN: 979-8-9852972-1-8
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