Crossing Paths - Blazing Trails
- Identifier
- P.2650
- Type
- Panel discussions
- Category
- New Media
- Date
- May 13 – September 9, 2023
- Description
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Open Space is acknowledging 50 Years on the Land, by holding events that look at artists and the systems that support them through a critical lens. Crossing Paths : Blazing Trails proposes 5 monthly virtual roundtables that centre the actual creative process of artists.the Gesture the Sound the Image the Word the Screen May 13, 2023 Jun 10, 2023 Jul 8, 2023 Aug 12, 2023 Sep 9, 2023
Of course, these factors are of critical importance and must be considered in art making. However, Crossing Paths : Blazing Trails proposes to start the convos with the actual creative process of artists - how does one create? - and work outwards from there. This approach is decolonial in nature and eschews the formulaic futility of the Diversity, Inclusion, Equity (DIE) paradigm so endemic in the arts today.
Crossing Paths : Blazing Trails insists that ‘including’ IBPoC artists into a system that itself is antiquated, with its multiple blindspots is flawed. Instead of trying to fix a broken system, let’s redesign it! Starting from the inside - artists’ practice - moving out to ask, “what would an art system, that was not Eurocentric, actually look like?”