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COUNTERSPACE

Counterspace is the first decolonial thinktank mapping cultural activism worldwide. The thinktank's futurist model and cultural strategy is rooted in creativity and a vision of healing leading to holism. To do so it offers two types of decolonial toolkits for both phases where decoloniality is not only present in the content but also in the methodology. The Unlearning Toolkit offers online and offline resources and experiences to unpack and heal consisting of online and printed Decolonial Publications, a Decolonial Library, Decolonial Labs, and Forum Talks. And the Relearning Toolkit offers online and offline resources and experiences to reconnect holistically consisting of a Radical Imagination Library, a Mutation School, a Mutants Podcast, and a Global Network browsable by continent, praxis and social construct. A global directory, which by connecting the dots, links the countercultural experiences and radical culture shakers (artists, curators or both) who are creatively decolonising culture, inspiring others to join the collective machinery towards change.

Oppression works alike everywhere, is intersectional, overlapping, and inflicted by a hierarchical power very much interested in keeping and promoting divides to sustain the privilege structure. As Guy Debord did with his ‘Critique of Separation’ based on his book ‘Society of Spectacle’, disrupting and deconstructing the binaries and biases of the status quo, paving the so far non-mainstream understanding of what we have in common and unity, is the true revolutionary key of global freedom. That’s why Counterspace brings the conversation further beyond the -still dividing- identity politics activism scene: Believing on one hand that we are governed by ideas, and that art / creativity is our only counter-space to question, imagine, create and inhabit other realities – in words of James Baldwin, the only asset which unlike government and religion has ever been able to revolution culture. And on the other hand, being deliberate to do so -but unprecedentedly- together. Not only connecting our current neo-colonial and hierarchical gaps in the mission, but understanding healing and the expansion of both personal and community development as a necessarily interdependent exercise on a physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, social and natural level.

The grassroots journey to our point of inflection will be intellectually redefining. Emotionally cathartic and spiritually transcendent. Empirically creative and existentially liberating. But most importantly it won't be yours nor mine but ours. A state of consciousness brought by and embodied as collective political art. Taking the form of what Joseph Beuys called ‘Social Sculpture/Organism’. A Beuys-inspired 'Social Sculpture/Organism' network where -as he defined it- every human being is an artist who shapes his/her state of freedom. Where the position of freedom he/she experiences at first-hand learns to determine the other positions of the total art work of the future social order.

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