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Creative director Victoria Pratt: Right now is the best time to implement measures to enable sustainable societies

Creative director Victoria Pratt: Right now is the best time to implement measures to enable sustainable societies

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Curator Eloise Sweetman: “The question of intimacy has always been up for debate”

Curator Eloise Sweetman: “The question of intimacy has always been up for debate”

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Visual Artist Yassine Khaled: Maybe the pandemic will make us choose to live closer to nature

Visual Artist Yassine Khaled: Maybe the pandemic will make us choose to live closer to nature

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Tuula Närhinen’s DEEP TIME DEPOSITS – online gallery

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Tuula Närhinen: DEEP TIME DEPOSITS: Exhibition / Below Zero 2020 Finnish pioneer of environmental art dug into the Thames mud.

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“Right now would be the best time, maybe the las

“Right now would be the best time, maybe the last chance, to truly implement all those measures that were designed to enable sustainable development and societies"

Victoria Pratt, of Invisible Flock, spoke to us about “Out from the Flood”, a collaboration with SubZero

”Out from the Flood”, an online generative data visualization, goes live at 5pm (BST) today

Links up in our bio 👆

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“The question of intimacy has always been up for

“The question of intimacy has always been up for debate.” Shimmer and PUBLICS’ collaborative project “Across the Way With…” interrogates the nature of intimacy in the context of digital communication and isolation.

Link to our interview and their readings, released every Monday, up in our bio 👆

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“Nature has answers to many of our problems, if

“Nature has answers to many of our problems, if we just look closely”

Aleksi Vesaluoma of Caracara Collective spoke to us about their new project, Network - out now!

Links to Network and the interview up in our bio 👆🍄

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"When we reduce nature to be seen as exploitable r

"When we reduce nature to be seen as exploitable resources we forget that we ourselves are embodied biological beings that are equally part of the biosphere".

Check out the full interview with Aapo Nikkanen, link in bio!
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Just released! Watch the full version of Monitor M

Just released! Watch the full version of Monitor Man in The Time of Pandemic on Vimeo. Link in bio.

Monitor Man in the Time of Pandemic is a new rendition of Yassine Khaled’s (@yassinekhaledart) piece Monitor Man (2016-2019). Originally based on virtual communication in public space, Khaled’s new short film explores the private space - homes of isolated participants across the world.

Khaled’s work aims at underlining this historical time we’re living in through different cultural reflections. Although dire in many aspects and marked by necessary isolation, people all over the world have stayed united becoming more and more dependent on technology. Exploring everyday quarantined life experiences in three different continents, Monitor Man in the Time of Pandemic highlights paradoxical times of increased isolation and stillness in an ultra connected world.
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Soft Variations is now launched on www.softvariati

Soft Variations is now launched on www.softvariations.com ✨ This ongoing project archives the stories of BIPOC and the discussions between them and choreographer-artistic director Sonya Lindfors.
Photo: Lys Y Seng
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"The pandemic time has changed our communication,

"The pandemic time has changed our communication, cultural practices and lifestyles. Maybe we will choose to be closer to nature and near surroundings." We had a chat with visual artist Yassine Khaled (@yassinekhaledart) about his video project Monitor Man in the Time of Pandemic launching today! Link in bio.

Photo: Joana Magalhaes
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Comic artist Miila Westin’s online comic journal

Comic artist Miila Westin’s online comic journal Keep in Touch portrays the thoughts, experiences, and feelings of her female friends amidst the global pandemic. Find out more about it in the interview with Miila!✨
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The Comic Journal will be published today at keepintouchcomic.com
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Links in bio.
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@psychopomp_theatre_collective celebrate the concl

@psychopomp_theatre_collective celebrate the conclusion of ”We need to talk about the future” with a live Q&A tomorrow!

Make sure to register for the event 👆you can find more info about Psychopomp! in our bio and on their page 👉 @psychopomp_theatre_collective

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