The Alternate Currents blog is home to articles, interviews, critical writing, and creative research that examine how justice in the arts in documented, interpreted, and enacted.
On July 26th, Cass Eddington, Alex O’Hanlon, and Valerie St. Pierre Smith sat down with Amanda Huckins, to talk about the ways in which artists and organizers cultivate common spaces for learning in response to shifting paradigms of “value” and “worth” in higher education.
Read MoreOn May 17th, Mary Elizabeth Lawson and Anna McClellan sat down with Dereck Higgins, Jacoby, Keiria Marsha, and Ameen Wahba to talk about how collaborative performance practices build communities and model new paradigms of “value” and “worth.”
Read More“I remember when it didn't matter as much.
I know it doesn’t matter as much.
It shouldn't matter as much.
But it does.“
On March 29th Dawaune Lamont Hayes, Parker Krieg, Bilgesu Sisman, and Jared Packard sat down for a conversation that examines how artists are aligning their practices with anti-capitalist orientations, and the movement lineages they come from, to cultivate relationships, rest, and regenerative economies.
Read More“Queers move away, like I did, to ‘escape’ these conditions. I think that queer ontologies, and increasingly, the intersectional LGBTQIA2S+ political struggles in areas with conservative governments, show us a mode of becoming that is crucial in 2023.“
Read More“At the dinner table, we have the privilege of challenging where we have been and questioning how we plan to show up. In this environment, it is generative to gather with love and create small patterns of healing with conscious ripples of spiritual connectedness.“
Read MoreOn January 25th, Amplify’s 2022 Alternate Currents Working Group came together to celebrate the launch of their collaborative publication, This Place and to talk more about where we’ve been, how we’ve changed, and what the future might hold.
Read More“I believe laughter and play are central to our healing and our connection. If we lose that sense of playfulness, if we lose our sense of humor, we've lost the battle. I feel like laughter is resilience, especially in Native culture.”
Read More“When I am working in the verge, alongside the screech of the road, the urgency, and the energy of the wild world courses through me. In the verge I think about the imperative of safe passage. I think about the possibilities of what wild spaces can be. I think about how connected we all are. “
Read MoreOn 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.
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