221A
Updated 13 days ago
- Age: 120 years
- ID: 13650072/134
16-1265 Howe Street Vancouver BC, V6Z 1R3 Canada
221A pursues its activities in the context of post-Olympics Vancouver, a "global city" cut across by the pleasures, crises, and contradictions of late-stage capitalism: the restructuring of all production by networked communications; unchecked real estate speculation and urban redevelopment; looming climate catastrophe; and the continued negotiations and contestations between diverse cultures on unceded territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. 221A is led by artists and designers who came of age after what Francis Fukuyama declared the ‘end of history' (c. 1992), where modernist romanticism-the dream of human agency to transform self and world-was said to have surrendered to the dominance of inhuman capital and cynical market realism... 221A is supporting the creation of an independent Cultural Land Trust (CLT). The CLT is a newly incorporated (December 2021) independent non-profit organization that..