Activism over art
 

Fremeaux & Jordan 20: "Why make an installation about refugees being stuck at the border when you could codesign tools to cut through fences? Why shoot a film about the dictatorship of finance when you could be inventing new ways of moneyless exchange? Why write a play inspired by neo-animism when you could be co-devising the dramaturgy of community rituals? Why make a performance reflecting on the silence after the songbirds go extinct when you could be co-creating ingenious ways of sabotaging the pesticide factories that annihilate them? Why make a dance piece about food riots when your skills could craft crowd choreographies to disrupt fascist rallies?"

> from Isabelle Fremeaux and Jay Jordan's We Are 'Nature' Defending Itself: Entangling Art, Activism and Autonomous Zones (2021)

> tagged with #art, #activism

> created Jun 15, 2025 at 2:30:19 PM


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