Publications

Alternate Currents cohort members create work for a limited edition publication that opens space for critical reflection around how justice in the arts is interpreted, documented, and enacted.

Fairplay

Fairplay foregrounds play’s ability to sweep away arbitrary demarcations between human and natural environments, authorship and ownership, interior truths and external expectations. Challenging these divides revealed new ways of finding assurance in the in-between and welcoming life’s ambiguities, while celebrating creative work’s capacity to investigate our present and inspire a fair future. 

We Free Us

We Free Us asks how artists and organizers might more thoughtfully align their practices with anti-capitalist orientations, and the movement lineages they come from, to build relationships, rest, and shore up regenerative modes of exchange. The social, economic, and environmental dimensions of ‘commoning’ surface in this publications as viable working practices for reimagining how wealth, knowledge, and power are distributed.

This Place

Ranging from placed-based investigations of a commercial hotel to public (and “public”) parks, an artist-run gallery space to an urban agriculture plot, a sound research lab to reclaimed tribal land, This Place sketches a collective portrait of this place and how we orient ourselves to it, find a sense of belonging in it, and deepen our relationship with it.

Given All This

Given All This responds to broad questions posed around institutional critique, arts economies, organizational hierarchies, cultural labor, and museum collections and archives. The essays, discussions, and creative work made in response to those questions and anthologized here shifts away from institutional frameworks and toward an emerging set of shared values that guide how we care for ourselves and each other when faced with institutional failings.