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Praxis # 4

Praxis # 4

In all this i wonder where I can enact my fullest human existence? in what space can i be autonomous and creatively free? and how can this impact the rest of my life and in what ways can this have any positive impact beyond the personal?

Praxis #3 'Move to zero'

Praxis #3 'Move to zero'

In unthinking, a knowingness emerges.

Praxis #2

Praxis #2

The Art World reflects the dominant social and political values of our capitalist society. It is controlled by elitist systems, upheld by galleries, art organisations, universities and the art 'heroes' who yield power, wealth and mysticism.

Praxis #1

Praxis #1

Criticality, in any art and/or educative endeavour that seeks to encourage transformation, is vital and without it we'll just keep spinning around in the sameness of the status quo for ever.

Why I think the economic argument for creativity is killing creativity.

Why I think the economic argument for creativity is killing creativity.

Creativity is part of the solution, just not the notion of creativity the mainstream seems to uphold. Like Karen Barad says: 'an invitation to live justly is written into the very matter of being.'

A suspension of time

A suspension of time

What does it mean to suspend our mechanistic experience of time in a capitalist society? and why is it important to create spaces that resist the more commonly regarded, quantitative understanding of time?

the Dan Scott episode

the Dan Scott episode

Dan is an artist working with sound, music, and performance. His work often creates sonic communities, using sound-making, aurality research and listening as methodologies for connecting people.

Confronting discomfort

Confronting discomfort

How can I be sure my intellectual and professional pursuits are motivated by and acting for the social justice cause I claim to be working for, if I remain in ‘comfortable’ spaces that reflect my own experiences?

Dialogue pt 1

Dialogue pt 1

After all nothing exists in a vacuum and in any existential quest we would be fools to focus solely on ourself alone. We are always in relationship with.

Socially engaged art

Socially engaged art

Kester advocates for change happening within the systems and structures and in dialogue with communities and participants

Sonic Agency

Sonic Agency

we live in a world dominated by a ‘visual-centric’ understanding of the world and by emphasising the visual (social media; advertising; education etc) we numb our sonic sensibilities and thus ‘tune out’ from a sense and dimension of the world through sound.