Counterspace is the first decolonial platform mapping cultural activism worldwide. It proposes decolonial toolkits with collectively shaped tools and resources, as well as a global cultural activism directory browsable by continent, praxis, and social construct, as a Beuys-inspired social sculpture revisited. The first global network linking the countercultural experiences and radical culture shakers (artists, curators or both) creatively decolonising culture, while inspiring others to join the collective machinery towards change.
Departing from creativity as the source that any human being has, and via these unlearning and relearning toolkits, Counterspace aims to co-create new collective knowledge production pools in circulation addressed to individuals, collectives, and institutions while self-organising, exploring horizontal relationships, unlearning and relearning personal and community development, with a decolonial and hence intersectional, decentralised, and holistic approach.
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Counterspace was founded in 2019 by cultural activist Cristina Morales – an applied anthropologist and transdisciplinary cultural practitioner working internationally as a critical researcher, educator, writer, and social practice curator-artist at the intersection of art and politics for self and community development. Given the niche nature of her field, she aimed not only to put on the map initiatives like hers, but to create a global network fostering new work and collaborations in that direction. Although she has curated the platform since, it has been designed as a collective knowledge production pool constantly shaping the content, growth, and direction of it via the relationships created through all its activity.
Counterspace has so far partnered up with Actipedia by the Center for Artistic Activism (New York), Social Art Network (UK), Humanities, Arts & Society (Paris), Antiuniversity Now (London), Socially Engaged Art Salon (Brighton), Publib (UK), Utopian Studies Society (UK), Ephemera (International), Primary (Nottingham), Design Science Studio by Buckminster Fuller Institute and HabRitual (San Francisco), and Narratopias by Plurality University Network (Paris).
Counterspace is an independent, open access, and adverts-free platform currently under further development while securing funding.
Image credit: Counterspace cultural strategy by Cristina Morales – London, 2021.
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