Time spent, projects for change ought to take years and years
Travel/Report Back
Infrastructures of support (art, health care, food, love)
Environmental Justice
What happened to the Left? Weak Left vs. Strong Left? What does that look like?
Native American Justice
Marginalization of Persons/ De-humanizing of Persons
Prison Justice
Public Amateur
Performative Change
Learning from the past/Historical awareness/History as a support network
Getting inspiration from (large) efforts that didn’t necessarily achieve their stated goals
Creating infrastructure for supporting art
Accounting for and championing neglected or suppressed histories
Choosing to be optimistic despite the facts
Providing resources for others
Working on projects for really long periods of time
Doing good/liberatory work within authoritarian structures
Summoning the work and actions of brave people in the past to contest the present
Creating inclusive structures for confronting things like state-sponsored torture
Repairing broken landscapes, environments and making a broader accounting of local historical awareness vis a vis land use
Redistributing the excesses of (American) culture in creative ways
Claiming freedom to play and experiment in public spaces
Having conversations about what our values are, what we want to and can achieve, when we feel our work is being effective – and how we define effectiveness
We are all working on different scales and levels of engagement with our cities, environment, etc. Can this be connected in a more visible way?
Developing new ways of working – new forms of collectivity/organizing - what would happen if 1000 artists worked on one project together?
Are our ways of working too individualistic?
Desire for a more critical assessment of all these kinds of work: What does that mean? What does that look like?