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She-Wolf at the Border
This alien migrant at the border satirizes the United Statesâ position in relation to immigrants in the country today. It depicts the emotional rebellion of a large population of Americans against a government that is acting like a âââââââ ââââââ. How long until ââââ roll back gay marriage? How long until ââââ make abortion iIllegal? How long until ââââ decimate the Grand Canyon? How long until ââââ completely dismantle the EPA? âŠand the list goes on. Just as families are being ââââ âââââ at the border because...
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Amizade como ativismo / Friendship as Activism
This piece opens with excerpts from Ajamu’s journal, talking about his process as an ArtsEverywhere artist in residence working with Black queer communities in New York, SĂŁo Paulo and Toronto. It then continues with Ajamu in conversation with ClĂĄudio Bueno, Flip Couto, FĂ©lix Pimenta, and JoĂŁo SimĂ”es. New York, August 2017 1.1 Not...
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Conceived by curator Mike Watson, Politics of Dissonance is a festival of sound, noise, political video, and VJ performances to be hosted in collaboration with Quartair, Social Sensibility and Perpetuum Mobile / Artists at Risk on 6th-9th July 2018. The event aims to bring together independent spaces and practitioners from across the world to collaborate in a performative investigation into the discord that defines our times. Drawing on dissonance both as a musical term and as a term used to describe social rupture or unease Politics of Dissonance invites sound and noise artists and musical practitioners as well as VJs and video makers to engage in performances or to create installations that focus on the role of dissonance in giving form to our times.
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Beyond the Spectacle: Contradiction, Uncertainty, and Imagination
(Banner image: Chto Delat, Monument to the Century of Revolutions, 2017, installation at Torontoâs Nuit Blanche. Photo credit: Dmitry Vilensky.) Over the past couple weeks (months⊠yearsâŠ) I have found it impossible to escape a constant barrage of images. Children in cages, violent civil unrest, collapsing economies and societies, and the metastasizing of brash and unchecked fundamentalist thoughts and actions. From...
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Thin Bright Threads
I was busy and distracted when the most recent ArtsEverywhere post arrived with its heading âPutinâs Very Best Day.â As I clicked through various posts to get a sense of where the entanglements of Nikolay Oleynikov and Alessandra Pomarico would take me, I happened to land on âMake Problems Everywhere,â...
Threat of Stability
Last Sunday, one week before the Russian presidential elections, with my punk band I took part in a benefit gig to support five young antifascists who were recently kidnapped, detained, and tortured by the FSB special agency, called the Centre for Prevention Against Extremism. We had just finished singing Lucyâa boldânâbrazen...
I am the space of protest
I am the space of protest. (dedicated to those who take to the streets) This one is dedicated to protest. To those people who resist being jaded and all forms of nihilism, pessimism, discouragement, or comfort and instead, they take to the streets. They move their body outside, they enact...
Freedom Movements, Programs, and Archival Practices of the Black Queer Diaspora
In his essay, Michael Roberson reminds us that the immense resilience and creativity of the House | Ballroom community are deeply historical and politicized. Roberson writes from within âa freedom movement, a radical pedagogy, and a spiritual formation in response to race, class, sexuality, and gender oppression. ⊠Since its history...
Urban Deflection
In his 1988 essay entitled âThe City as Wave-Trough in the Image Floodâ, VilĂ©m Flusser offers a novel way to conceive of an urban centre: as a weighted place that imposes on a gravitational field and draws people towards it. This weight does not come from the cityâs traditional institutions,...
Speaking and Listening, Improvised and Autonomous
ArtsEverywhere, and its host organization, Musagetes, are deeply invested in practices of improvisation, musically and otherwise. One of our partners, the International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation, based at the University of Guelph, has developed an extensive body of practice-based academic research on applications of improvisation in many fields...