This year illuminates many things about the power of microscopic actions and decisions on the ground among everyday people to make impact on issues and systems that are massive, overpowering, or seemingly unchangeable. Among the massive global traumas, like systemic racism, climate change, and a deadly pandemic, perhaps the small works we do in the …
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We brought together a vibrant group of individuals who blur the boundaries between art, academics, and activism. Toss them in a room together for a couple of days, to see what happens. They’re all brilliant researchers and artists.
I have been working on and playing with visual experiments for some time now. During the last year I have been looking at how to tell something VERY SHORT. This little video here is 56 seconds long which is quite short compared to videos I did some years ago. Im trying to be close, to …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMTAYFvInLU&feature=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIMKLFHSduY&feature=youtu.be
The expected thing would have been to simply assume that these young people I had been working with for several months back then were “young migrants”, young people with “special” ways being and doing because of their migrant experiences. But then, the uncomfortable questions would start arising by themselves, and overlooking those would be just dishonest.
