MOVEMENT Space

We continue to see a sharp resurgence of social movements, within which artists and cultural workers are playing leading roles. Land, air, and water are central to decolonization.

Our movement space is facilitated by MTL+ as a resource for communities, art, research and organizing. 

At the core of our process is a weekly program of public events, with collaborators from across the five boroughs anchoring assemblies, trainings, skillshares, readings, screenings, meals, and healing sessions. The program of outward- and inward-facing events will center six lines of political inquiry, namely Indigenous Struggle, Black Liberation, Free Palestine, Global Wage Workers, De-Gentrification, and Dismantle Patriarchy. Different communities will be in dialogue through the space, establishing ties between groups that tend to converge around single issues. Moving beyond politics that rely upon loose definitions of commonality, we instead mobilize complex differences to decenter whiteness, and enact reparations and repatriate land.

We prioritize the presence and work of people of color —challenging the white supremacy that continues to characterize the economies and institutions of art.