COUNTERSPACE - Founding Curator
Counterspace | 2019 – Present, London – UK / International. Counterspace is an independent curatorial platform and the first decolonial thinktank mapping Cultural Activism worldwide. Shaped by the phases of the decolonial process, Counterspace’s unlearning toolkit proposes resources and experiences to unpack and redefine so far consisting of online and printed decolonial publications, a decolonial library, decolonial labs, and forum talks. And Counterspace’s relearning toolkit proposes resources and experiences to reconnect holistically so far consisting of a Radical Imagination library, a Mutation School, a Mutants podcast, and a Cultural Activism global directory browsable by continent, praxis and social construct. A Beuys-inspired ‘Social Sculpture/Organism’ network which by connecting the dots, links the experiences and culture shakers creatively decolonising culture, while inspiring others to join the collective machinery towards change. A net where -as he defined it- every human being is an artist who shapes his/her/their state of freedom. Where the position of freedom he/she/they experiences/experience at first-hand learns to determine the other positions of the total art work of the future social order. www.counterspace.zone Founding Curator | Researcher. Curator. Editor. Author. Speaker. Labs Facilitator / Critical Pedagogue. Podcaster. Communication. Funding. Key achievements: Founding curator of the first decolonial thinktank mapping Cultural Activism worldwide. Founding curator of the first Decolonial Lab. Published by Humanities, Arts and Society + Memory of the Future (Paris); London Institute of Contemporary Arts (London); A Beautiful Resistance (Seattle); Ouvrage (Montreal); and Inhabit (Global). Partnered up with Actipedia + Center for Artistic Activism (New York), Social Art Network (UK), Primary (Nottingham), -Ism (London), Socially Engaged Art Salon (Brighton), Publib (UK), Utopian Studies Society (UK), Ephemera Conference (International), and Antiuniversity Now (London). Community organising fostering Social Practice Art global networks, and unity bridging neocolonial and hierarchical gaps, as a key collective liberation factor in a – still dividing – identity politics activism scene.