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Vitshois Mwilambwe Bondo: Para-institutional Kinshasa

Lauren Tate Baeza and Vitshois Mwilambwe Bondo talk about particularities of how a continent-wide trend of community-centered and para-institutional arts organizing unfolds in his hometown of Kinshasa; his personal journey from artist to administrator; and his own organization, Kin ArtStudio.

Type:
Interviews
Source:
Spring 2022
Location:
Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo
Credit:
Interview / Lauren Tate Baeza

War Inna Babylon: The Community’s Struggle for Justice Truths and Rights

War Inna Babylon is not an exhibition; it is an everyday lived reality. Although we’ve exhibited some of the experience, I want people to feel it, feel like they have to do something, and [then] ask what we do next. To understand that you can’t sit on the fence, because if you do, you are supporting the status quo.

Type:
Interviews
Source:
Spring 2022
Location:
London, England
Credit:
Interview / Stephanie Bailey

Indicting the Poisonous Imaginary—Radha D’Souza and Jonas Staal

In 2021 D’Souza and Staal came together to stage the Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes (CICC) at Framer Framed in Amsterdam. Described as “a more-than-human tribunal to prosecute intergenerational climate crimes” committed by Unilever, ING, Airbus, and the Dutch state, the court drew from D’Souza’s book What’s Wrong With Rights? Social Movements, Law and Liberal Imaginations.

Type:
Features, Interviews
Source:
Spring 2022
Credit:
Interview / Stephanie Bailey

Itziar Barrio: Stella!—working on, and through You Weren’t Familiar but You Weren’t Afraid

You Weren’t Familiar but You Weren’t Afraid was filmed in multiple cities and makes overt narrative references to three films: A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), La estrategia del caracol (The Strategy of the Snail) (1993) and Accattone (1961).

Type:
Interviews
Source:
April 13th, 2022
Credit:
Interview / Jillian McManemin