React Recreate Revision & Trajectories of Now

ReAct ReCreate ReVision was a research creation partnership with racialized and gender diverse emerging artists along with universities to explore ways to make social change and create cultural policy through their art.

The multi-year, collaborative project included a June 2024 group art exhibit called “Trajectories of Now.” The organizations on board with this project were Ontario College of Art and Design University (OCADU), Mass Culture, and others.

FLIP was a co-leader and partner in design, production, analysis, project administration and knowledge dissemination. Our role was crucial in providing a quick and responsive administrative system to compensate artists and researchers, which makes a huge difference to marginalized emergent leaders who often can’t wait several weeks to receive funds to produce art and research work and/or cover basic costs.

In a majority of institutions (including universities), payments can take weeks or months to come through, creating a massive barrier to producing art and research for social change for many marginalized emergent leaders. As a result, this also often means that people most impacted by existing inequities are not able to participate in designing solutions by sharing their art, knowledge, and strategies as part of these projects.

To respond to this, FLIP’s role in knowledge dissemination was to connect artists who participated in this project with financial activists, funders, and policymakers through dialogue and networking to build social capital and relationships between emergent leaders and financial activists. The impact of this is building reciprocal and resourceful relationships between financial activists and emergent leaders and a more just economy.

Check out the RRR Field Guide

Connect with RRR:
IG: @trajectoriesofnow