Assembly
ArtsLink Assembly 2021: Future Fellows
Nov 1–Nov 19, 2021
November 1 & November 17–19, 2021
The Vera List Center partners with CEC ArtsLink to present ArtsLink Assembly 2021: Future Fellows, a gathering of ten independent artists and arts leaders building new networks locally and transnationally to support and sustain independent artists in a post-pandemic world. Through dialogue with each other and independent cultural hubs, they explore inspirational new models for artists working in community and public contexts. The Future Fellows propose new art ecology for the 21st century. The ArtsLink Assembly 2021 presents their manifestos in discussion with the ArtsLink International Fellows from nine countries.
ArtsLink Assembly is curated and produced by CEC ArtsLink, a not-for-profit organization that supports transnational cultural mobility and collaboration, empowering artists and arts leaders to engage communities in dialogue and creative projects for a more equitable, compassionate, and sustainable world. As part of this transnational assembly, VLC Boris Lurie Fellow Etcétera hosts the second in a series of laboratories for socio-environmental imagination with a focus on ecocide.
The Future is Now: Future Fellows’ Manifestos
Monday, November 1, 2021, 12:00 pm EST–ongoing
Online
Future Fellows in Dialogue
Wednesday, November 17, 2021, 12 pm EST
Online
Participants:
Those registered and
Selma Banich, artist, educator, and community organizer, Zagreb, Croatia
Rusanda Curca, Co-director, Center for Cultural Projects Arta Azi, Hirtop, Moldova
Leyli Gafarova, filmmaker, and Co-creator, Salaam Cinema Baku, Baku, Azerbaijan
Cannupa Hanska Luger, multidisciplinary artist, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Elena Ishchenko, Krasnodar, Chief Curator, Typography Center for Contemporary Art, Krasnodar, Russia
Qondiswa James, theater-maker and activist, Cape Town, South Africa
Ambrose Idemudiah Joshua, founding member of the Westsyde Lifestyle collective, Lagos, Nigeria
Amirah Sackett, choreographer, and Founder, We’re Muslim, Don’t Panic, Chicago, U. S.
Malika Umarova & Marat Raymkulov, members of curatorial collective, Bishkek April Fool Contest, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
Fatin Zaqtan, Founding Director of the Palestine Observatory for Cultural Policy, Ramallah, Palestine
Moderator, Megha Ralapati, Residency Manager, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, Illinois
As for Protocols: Future Transnational Models of Independent Practice
Friday, November 19, 2021, 12–2 pm EST
Livestream with Q&A
ArtsLink International Fellows 2020 discuss the Future Fellows’ manifestos in relation to their own work and practices in a dialogue moderated by Kendal Henry, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs.
Participants:
Those registered and
Yoanna Ayers, musician, Krakow, Poland
Mirna Bamieh, Director, Palestine Hosting Society, Palestine
Bermet Borubaeva, environmental and labor rights activist, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
Ashot Danielyan, performing artist, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Alevtyna Kakhidze, Co-founder, Muzychi Expanded History Project, Muzychi, Ukraine
Mikheil Sulakauri, artist and activist, Tbilisi, Georgia
Katja Sulc, musician, singer and songwriter, Krsko, Slovenia
Ann Mirjam Vaikla, Director of the Narva Art Residency, Tallinn, Estonia
Iman Zaki, Co-founder, Reflection for Arts, Alexandria, Egypt
Moderator: Kendal Henry, Curator and Assistant Commissioner, Public Art at the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs
RESPONSE ABILITY* A Manifesto on Ecocide
Friday, November 19, 2021, 3:30–5:00 pm EST
Online
VLC Boris Lurie Fellow Etcétera hosts the second in a series of laboratories for socio-environmental imagination as a manifesto on ecocide.
The ArtsLink Assembly 2021 is produced by CEC ArtsLink and supported by the Trust for Mutual Understanding, John and Jody Arnhold Foundation (honoring Amei Wallach), the Kirby Family Foundation, and generous individuals. Additional curatorial support is also provided by the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School.
RESPONSE ABILITY* A Manifesto on Ecocide is presented by the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School as the public program of the first chapter of a two-year project by Argentinian collective and Boris Lurie Fellow Etcétera. It is part of the VLC’s two-year focus theme As for Protocols and generously supported, in part, by the Boris Lurie Art Foundation. For more information about the Boris Lurie Art Foundation, please visit its website.
The Vera List Center is committed to ensuring that our programs are accessible to and inclusive of all. As part of that commitment, this event will feature close captioning subtitles and ASL interpretation. Please let us know when registering if you need any additional accommodation.
The Fall 2021 programs of the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School are generously supported by members of the Vera List Center Board, individual donors as well as the following institutional funders:
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts
Boris Lurie Art Foundation
Dayton Foundation
Ford Foundation
Kettering Fund
Native Arts and Cultures Foundation
Pryor Cashman LLP
and
The New School
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