COLUMN, WORKSHOP, PERSPECTIVE Aleksandra Shekutkovska COLUMN, WORKSHOP, PERSPECTIVE Aleksandra Shekutkovska

Curating activism into Everyday life

The art in which we compose our everyday life and the choices we make on a daily basis are a significant part of place-making our authentic personality within a context. More than often we have been influenced to think of the everyday as a routine, as something repetitive and commonly full of boredom and disappointment, where the accomplishment of a more meaningful time is placed, well, somewhere in the future. We continue our everyday life, frequently in survival mode, placing our hopes not in the everyday, but rather in - another day. Due to different circumstances, from very young, we start to learn to surrender our power to extract the fruitful landscape of possibilities for production, creativity and activism seeded into the everyday. For some reason, at the given moment, in the now and here it just doesn’t resonate.

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