Flier by Stephanie Borgovan
Practices After Capitalism is a series of conversations with artists, cultural workers, worldbuilders, and creative practitioners working past, against, and through capitalism. The series unpacks their work to understand their structural components and offer lessons, decisions, tools, and methods for others to incorporate into their own work.
Hosted by artist and A4A Community Member Daniel Sharp, Practices After Capitalism grows from the idea that artists across the world are already making work that point to paths away from capitalism. Seeing—and sharing—these practices is the first step toward wider acceptance and adoption.
Writer Keith Moxey, for example, has suggested that time might not “run at the same speed and density” in all places. Southern Cheyenne and Arapaho temporalities, embodied and discussed by artist Edgar Heap of Birds, offer circular systems of time that reference and return instead of moving linearly forward. Theorist Terry Smith considers these types of time “experienced in the midst of a growing sense that many kinds of time are running out.” It is in this vein that Practices After Capitalism considers capitalism as a time that is, in fact, running out—and the lookout for others can show us the way forward.
Conversation 01: Rad Pereira with Daniel Sharp
September 19, 2023, 7:00-8:30pm ET
The People’s Forum
320 W 37th St, New York, NY 10018
Rad Pereira (they/them) is a cultural worker of Pindorama (so called Brasil). Their creative practices spiral around social sculpture, popular theatrical and TV/film performance, mediation, participatory liberatory artmaking and healing that weave together an Afro-futurist longing for transformative justice and queer (re)Indigenization of culture. They are co-founder of You Are Here, a community-based organism for art + healing. They are building Iron Path Arts + Farm, a Haudenosaunee, Two Spirit led rematriation project focusing on food sovereignty, seed-saving, growing ancestral foods, mutual aid distribution, and community building throughout Haudenosaunee homelands (so called upstate NY). Their book Meeting the Moment is available through New Village Press.
Daniel Sharp (they/he/she) is an artist, musician, writer, and interdisciplinary organizer. The majority of their work deals with systems of capital, public space, techno, and suburbia. They are based in Waawiyatanong (Detroit), Michigan.