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When we make art, we are exploring alternative realities.
Amahra Spence argues that making art is the practice of creating and being in alternative realities. What if we could harness that ability to reimagine the world?
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Amahra Spence on Radical Imagination, Hurry Slowly podcast
As artists, we're always practicing alternative realities, we're always exploring beyond our current paradigm. Is there something about what it is to be an artist in the first place that we can harness, that we can sort of convene and use that as a power to say, how do we want to reimagine the world?