co-creating resistance/civic and public space

why does our work matter?

“The very concept of ideology implies a kind of basic, constitutive naiveté: the misrecognition of its own presuppositions, of its own effective conditions, a distance, a divergence between so-called social reality and our distorted representation, our false consciousness of it.”

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– SLAVOJ ZIZEK

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“Systems of thoughts composed of ideas, attitudes, courses of action, beliefs and practices that systematically construct the subjects and the worlds of which they speak.”

– MICHEL FOUCAULT

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“ The semiological sign is also, like its model, compounded of a signifier and a signified (the colour of a light, for instance, is an order to move on, in the Highway Code), but it differs from it at the level of its substances.”

– ROLAND BARTHES

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What does Reena mean by space?

“Aesthetics and oral transmission can in the imagining of another kind of social /civic space.”

It’s your turn.

“The starting point for orientation is the point from which the world unfolds: the here of the body and the where of its dwelling.”

– SARA AHMED