COMMUNITIES IN MOVEMENT

Communities in Movement is an artistic research project organized and led by artist and writer Brandon LaBelle in collaboration with participating artists, researchers, centers and institutions. The project takes its name from urban theorist and activist Stavros Stavrides, whose work captures the emergence of new expressions of social solidarity as found, for example, in the movement of the squares. Stavrides underscores communities in movement as the undoing of identitarian enclaves in support of connective thresholds, commoning practices, and networks of care. As he suggests, "Emancipation may thus be conceived not as the establishing of a new collective identity but rather as the establishing of the means to negotiate between emergent identities." Reflecting upon and engaging with questions of "emancipatory practices", the project queries historical and contemporary forms of community, from the imagined to the symbolic, the micro to the temporary, and aims to consider community as a..