coming times emerges as a natural continuity of our activity so far, but also as a result of our new needs and imaginaries that are constantly being transformed through the lived experience of the multifaceted particularities of the precarious geopolitical context in which we operate, our concern for the ever-changing socio-political landscape at the global level and its impact on our lives in general, the observation and shift of our identities, both collectively and individually, and our perpetual oscillation between theory and practice. Most importantly, it arises as a proposal towards – the ways and practices in which we seek to position ourselves within our workplaces by enacting feminist tools, experimentation, claiming and implementing new paradigms of artistic curation, production and research, and modes of coexistence of community with strong cohesive ties, as well as our longing to build and sustain transnational synergies and exchanges.
Inspired by our locality, we reflect on the periphery-centre binary and expect through coming times to feed the discourse beyond, in search of similarities, connections, differences and divergences with homogeneous, but also heterogeneous geopolitical contexts, cultural models and policies. With the premise that knowledge is not universal, but is tied to specific contexts, locations and geographies, we carefully arrived at a selection of invited guests, with the utmost intention of curating an ecosystem which highlights the importance of feminist thought and the corresponding beneficial practical impact it could have on our own field.
We hope coming times to be a meeting point where theory engages with embodied experiences, emphasizing the need for pluralism and the visibility of all subjectivities. For us, any such initiative is a refreshing gesture towards shifting forms of collective thought and action. Such initiatives co-constitute a container of reflections that strengthen the identity of the field, highlighting its relational quality as a field of open ended infrastructure so that the urgencies of the field can be integrated at any given time, dynamically repositioning it on the wider map of the artistic landscape, but also building more secure and collective futures.
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