New Coalitions in Socially Engaged Digital Practice

Contributed by Beyond the Now

Friday, 11 June, 2021
CAPP Staging Post 2017. Photo: Guillermo Gumiel
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This recording, originally part of Mozilla Festival 2021, builds upon Beyond the Now’s Season 2 theme of Mutual Aid. It focuses on digital platforms as experimental sites for socially engaged art practices. Digital spaces that re-imagine, activate and facilitate cross-border solidarity, creative exchange, inclusion and racial and social justice.

We explore the scope for projects which enable creative practitioners, activists, civil society organisations and other actors to re-imagine what community, resilience and social justice looks like in the context of increasing intolerance and the shrinking of public space. Specifically the potential for new collaborative architectures to be built through digital commissions that tackle topics such as countering digital hate, freedom of expression, security, displacement, democracy and mutual aid and care.

Session panelists include Will Prescott (Centre for Countering Digital Hate); Kit Braybrooke (Digital Anthropologist and Director of We & Us); and Abdullah Alkafri, (Dramaturge and Director of Ettijahat- Independent Culture).

Facilitors/Moderators: Áine O’Brien (Counterpoints Arts) and Ailbhe Murphy (Create)

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‘Beyond the Now’ is a syndicated social practice platform, founded by partners based and working in locations across the globe, which aims to open up new creative, cultural and political affinities for a post-pandemic world.

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