MOBILE AESTHETICS AND EMERGING SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

Concerning the creative and communicative practices of urgent contemporary movements and the necessity of creating alternatives for just and sustainable presents and future forms of life.
Possible topics include:

• Human trafficking and resistance movements - What are the limitations of those practices and what can we articulate at this forum to imagine newer directions in the movement?
• Visual pedagogies and activism
• Comparative analysis of aesthetics of social movements
• What are the new translocal relationships that are currently emerging between visual/symbolic languages of cultural resistance?
• Whither the Cosmopolitan Other? The changing definitions of alterity in the contemporary geo-political world-system
• The question of the archive: What to carry forward into the next world?
• Gender and decolonial thinking