Saved by Keely Adler
Futures From Ruins
Paradise is imagined as a static place, as a place before or after history, after strife and eventfulness and change: the premise is that once perfection has arrived change is no longer necessary. This idea of perfection is also why people believe in saving, in going home, and in activism as crisis response rather than everyday practice.
Rebecca Solnit • Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
On building, breaking and growing while always resisting - A story by FNB Art Joburg
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we are losing our capacity to “conceptualize a tomorrow that [is] radically different from our present.
walkerart.org • The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World
All struggled with the constraints of state and corporate sponsorship and the limitations of presenting the future through the lens of objects and things rather than ideas and relationships. Even so, they were rare moments when possible futures were made tangible.