While participating in the research and editing phases, cohort members deepen their understanding of how their work intersects, compliments, and challenges that of other group members.
Alternate Currents cohort members create work for a limited edition publication that opens space for critical reflection around how justice in the arts is interpreted, documented, and enacted.
We Free Us
We Free Us traces the contours of what it means to share resources and hold cultural goods in common as viable working practices for distributing wealth, knowledge, and power more equitably.
This Place
This Place is presented in three overlapping and interlocking thematic sections: Orienting, Belonging, and Relating. The first section focuses on mapping and remapping urban landscapes, their histories, and their futures. Notions of belonging are expanded and reshaped in the second section. And the third foregrounds reciprocal relationships between humans, plants, and animals that deepen our understanding of what it means to be in, of, or from a place.
Given All This
Given the pandemic, given renewed calls for racial equity and justice, given the accelerated impacts of a changing climate – all this – the collected works in this publication are not offered as “solutions” to institutional failings, but rather as invitations to more critically examine the ways in which our cultural institutions might become a collective commons to question where we’ve been, how we’ve changed, and what the future might hold.