Excavating Arts and Activism in Illinois and Wisconsin, by discussion at Mess Hall

Excavating Arts and Activism in Illinois and Wisconsin

by discussion at Mess Hall

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"Excavating Arts & Activism in Illinois and Wisconsin" was a discussion at Mess Hall that focused on examples and problems from neighboring states in creative activism. This event, which was co-presented by Mess Hall and Borderbend Arts Collective, was free and open to the public, and it included a potluck.

We discussed and compared the use of art strategies for grassroots political messaging and organizing, from within the Wisconsin Uprising to the work around closing prisons and opposing torture, fighting the mayoral austerity agendas, and organizing against the NATO summit in Illinois. We looked at tactics of visibility, of physical witness, of community coherence and of purposeful play. The focus was on applicable strategies contextualized within artist and activist practice, and how strategies applicable in one state or city context might or might not be transferable to another. We also explored the role of imagination, creative practice and the arts in building social movements. The participants included Alice Kim, Lane Hall, Yasmin Nair, Dan S. Wang, Dan Godston, and others who attended this event.

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