On Crisis and Representation
At this sharing event, organized by Prince Claud Funding organized by Prince Claud Fund and the British Council, the cohort Cycle 1 of the Mentorship Award: Moving Narratives invites you to share their insights.
Inequality, imperialism, poverty, war, genocide, patriarchy, xenophobia, ecocide — the list goes on. Today, we live in a world where crises accumulate at an accelerating pace. In response, artists and cultural practitioners persist in creatively showcasing catastrophes and their repercussions.
Yet, it seems that so much representation of crisis has itself generated a crisis of representation. This manifests in the fact that we can more readily imagine the end of the world itself rather than transforming the world’s daily suffering. Despite the abundance of artistic responses, photojournalism, forensic documentation, citizen recording, or archiving of the events as they unfold; we remain stuck in the face of an unyielding cycle of repeating crisis.
The symptoms of our contemporary crisis of imagination are closely intertwined with a crisis in representation, requiring a serious conceptual, discursive, and aesthetic engagement.
The cohort of Moving Narratives will curate a sharing moment (of individual and collective, visual, performative, and discursive work) that not only represents crises and their consequences but will also challenge our imagination considering possibilities and approaches that are not simply moved by the world (representing the world as it is), but rather inspire moving the world.
The Mentorship Award: Moving Narratives is organised in collaboration with the British Council.