During the class we will be developing a number of lectures, creative tasks and workshops exploring the potentials of creative activism. This includes lateral thinking sessions, the development of creative strategies and their fruition into media interventions that will hopefully create an impression, raise awareness and have some kind of impact on an issue you feel strongly about.
The aim is for these tasks to build into a portfolio of work for our participants (which includes using video, web, writing, photography, digital and social media, ambient media and so on) to enable you to connect in a real way to a social, political or cultural issues that you believe in.
Even more importantly though: this project is about you building a network of inspiration and connections to like-minded individuals who you can collaborate with to share experiences, resources, knowledge and skills.
If you have any ideas or you’ve been inspired by a particular artist, activist or project , then please let us know. Even better, if you would like to donate a lecture or talk to the class, then please get in touch.
* Well i’m based in CT but I LOVE where this seems to be going as I’m about to kick start an enlightened-anarchy-art group so the synchronicity is amazing.
Might not be your thing but in Buddhism there is something called Sadhana which translates as ‘means to enlightenment’ and over time on my site and with the group of artists I’ll be exploring the idea of people doing what they really love as a means to transform themselves, and as an effortless by-product – their society. I’m not even sure what I’m suggesting here, simply putting it out there. Perhaps someone on your crew would be interested in the idea of Sadhana and the idea that ‘self-liberation’ especially through art/craft/skills as the most political choice an individual can make in this day and age.
Much love, and good luck! Hopefully here in South Africa, we can share some of your brilliant ideas.
Hi anreal- just to let you know we are starting next week. We’ve posted up some of the tasks to get started.