"Truth is concrete is a 24-hour, 7-day marathon camp: for 170 hours more than 200 artists, activists and theorists lecture, perform, play, produce, discuss and collect useful strategies and tactics in art and politics. A full grant program additionally invited 100 students and young professionals from all over the world. The marathon is a platform, a toolbox as well as a performative statement. It is a machine that runs non-stop – often too fast, sometimes too slow. All day, all night. It produces thought, argument and knowledge, but it also creates frustration and exhaustion." - truthisconcrete.org
Go to the website www.truthisconcrete.org
There is a conversation about art and political action that's really worth a read. It explains the project and who's involved, there's even a link to a continuous live streaming of the events on 21st of September till the 28th.
"On our travels during the last one and a half years – be it to Zuccotti or Tahrir Square... Tunis, Rio or Buenos Aires – everywhere artists were among the first to get involved, among the first to join the political and social movements. But how did art, how did artistic strategies and tactics play a role? At a time when art, theory and practice seem to be constantly lagging behind reality? When art is seen more and more as a mere leftist hobby rather than a foundation of humanity?" - truthisconcrete.org
good questions.
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