A lot of this will resonate with freelance art workers, not independent, but often dependent on the systemic bad practices of institutions.

This is the first part of a three-part series about Art and Change. I'm already looking forward to reading the coming essays!

“To effectively manoeuvre through a world that is becoming more complex and to strengthen our sector, we need to take a hard look at where we are at and how we, as a sector, are directly contributing to the problems we often claim to challenge”

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If the point of having a society *isn't* to care for each other, to ease suffering and realize each life's potential, literally what is the point? To hoard wealth? To build empires on other people's throats? Life is brief, nothing lasts. Wealth and empires are pointless violence

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Artists, Activists, & Worldbuilders on Decentralised Autonomous Organisations: Conversations about Funding, Self-Organisation, and Reclaiming the Future.

Inte Gloerich, Erik Bordeleau, Ruth Catlow, Aude Launay, Yazan Khalili, Penny Rafferty, & Stacco Troncoso.

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Look: AI reflects human biases and decision-making, it’s not a neutral or autonomous force. Claiming otherwise is an evasion of responsibility. It’s becoming the ultimate tool for hiding from the consequences of development choices. This isn’t progress, it’s the cowardice of the powerful.

Doughnut Economics survived Trump I - in fact it went from being a book of ideas to a buzzing worldwide community of practice. If you want to be part of turning a compelling global vision into local action, join us: it’s time to connect and learn together. Pls RT. doughnuteconomics.org

Monday morning we are entering a new chapter in this country's history and we are entering it together, with our friends and principles held close and our eyes wide open.

“So is there a message that we might take away from art in 2024? The honest answer is probably no. But for those of you who can’t live with that then perhaps it might go something like this: in today’s world we don’t need art; we need truth. And only when art drives towards truth do we need it”

“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist”

James Baldwin

Last night Turner Prize 2024 winner Jasleen Kaur used her acceptance speech to stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people, to demand an end to institutional complicity in Israels genocide & to call for an immediate arms embargo.

“designers are very involved in building all kinds of things. So if we could think more about the effects of what we’re building, effects that are not part of the intention, or the design, that might help” says Anna Tsing in this insightful interview fojournal.org/interview/an...

Solidarity, to me, is rooted in the belief that life, not money, is sacred. And it requires a commitment to reflecting that faith in our relationships, movements, institutions, and social policies.

Our problems are global & interconnected, and our solutions must be too. With over 70 contributors, this toolbox spotlights the collective wisdom that reminds us that another world is not only possible, it’s already under construction orbooks.com/catalog/beau... published by @orbooks

After their Schelling Architecture Foundation award was rescinded for signing an open letter supporting the Israeli cultural boycott, James Bridle (@jamesbridle.bsky.social) addresses the award’s refusal, Strike Germany, and the ‘duty of institutions to act ethically’ artreview.com/james-bridle...