Starting on October 2, 2024, we are co-hosting a three-month series called Rad Artist Politics Hour. It is an opportunity for local radical artists to come together and talk story about the issues that are important to us. There is so much politically to understand and make meaning of, and we seek to hold space-time where artists can openly discuss the issues of our lives, our creative practice, and our communities.
We've been gathering artists, organizers, educators, facilitators, and consultants for the past four years under a number of different names, projects, and clients, including Art Camp for Comrades, Queering Dreams, Queer Art School, Immigrant Artist Network, and Tree of Change.
For every iteration, we co-create specific Guides to Space-Time that aid us in articulating exactly how we as facilitators (will) facilitate. They are always collaboratively developed and collectively upheld. We adapt them as needs, wants, or desires arise within our group or within our facilitation dynamics.
Often, the next iteration holds a more nuanced meaning than previous ones. Sometimes, we drop something that didn't work too well or was unclear. Always, we craft them with a particular community, conversation, or co-created "outcome" in mind. Guides to Space-Time require specificity for they interact dynamically with specific peoples, identities, places, and ways of understanding and making meaning.
Our Guides to Space-Time draw from our combined 50+ years gathering our queer, trans, non-binary, Black, brown, poor, immigrant, young to old relations together in circle to conversate, co-create, and care for one another. They are both rooted in and an extension of our values. And they exemplify our mission of developing tools, resources, and praxis that tends to an adaptive culture of autonomy, consent, conversation, care, and co-creation.
Below are SEVEN Guides to Space-Time that we have crafted for Rad Artist Politics Hour. They include both a written description and a visual symbol that represents a deeper / different understanding of our Guide. We will be introducing them as part of our "Welcome at" the first salon through a process of consensus-building. This will help us make any adaptations needed in real time and gives us useful information about future Guides.
Please scroll through, and feel free to use them, adapt them, or share them with your own group, class, workshop, or convening. If you do, please don't forget to credit Tree of Change - Crystal Mason & Jason Wyman / Queerly Complex.
AND if you're in the San Francisco Bay Area RSVP to Rad Artist Politics Hour TODAY!.
All illustrations & design by Queerly Complex.
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