A4A Launch Weekend March 19-21st
After running three cycles of our Intro to Anticapitalism course, we are announcing our expansion into a sustained community with a launch weekend of discussions, panels, and teach-ins taking place over the weekend of March 19-21st. Much like everything else we do, these events will all be free and open to the general artist public. Event partners and special guests will be announced at a later date.
How to Get Capitalism out of Art (Plenary; Community Workshop)
In this welcome event, we will introduce our theme for the weekend Getting Capitalism Out of Art. As artists, we believe that capitalism has no place in our world yet we find ourselves constrained by capitalism and all its byproducts at every turn. In this community discussion and workshop, we’ll discuss the challenges facing artists within capitalism and workshop original ideas for what we as artists can do to free art from capitalism.
Tickets available starting Tues, March 2nd
Note: Times displayed are in Eastern Standard Time (EST).
What is the role of the artist in revolution? (Panel)
This panel centers on the persistent question for artists who seek to transform the world: What is the relationship of artwork about social change to actual change itself? In conflating these two processes, what are the traps we fall into? In understanding their differences, what are the areas of possibility and opportunity? And where do arts institutions fit into all of this? Guest artists who work at the center of art and transformative change offer up responses.
Note: Times displayed are in Eastern Standard Time (EST).
Organizing Artists Today (Teach-In)
What does it tangibly mean to be organized as an artist and why is it essential? What history can we draw on in order to build power and sustain pressure toward the promise of emancipation? In order to meet the responsibilities of making a better world, we must move beyond mobilization against issues-of-the-day into sustained organization against their systemic origins. This teach-in event will leave attendees with a number of ways to get started on the practical side of change.
Note: Times displayed are in Eastern Standard Time (EST).
Worker Co-operatives, What are they and how could they work in art? (Teach-In)
A worker co-operative is a workplace that is owned and self-managed by the workers themselves. In this short teach-in, we’ll speak with existing co-operative and an expert discussing what worker co-operatives are, how they work, and why there aren't more in America, followed by discussion on how such structures could exist amongst artists and why art is or is not a suitable world to build these sorts of institutions.
Note: Times displayed are in Eastern Standard Time (EST).
Happy Hour: If art is not competitive, then what is it? (Community Discussion)
This casual cocktail hour will be a space to meet some of the other attendees from the weekend in a more informal setting, reflect on learnings from the weekend, and return to the central theme of “how to get capitalism out of art.” Open discussion event with facilitation; drinks encouraged.
Note: Times displayed are in Eastern Standard Time (EST).