One of my favorite artists, Lori Larusso, has a spread over at Beautiful Decay right now. Lori’s work is a constant inspiration for the things I try to do here at Unrest. In the future when space and time permit, I certainly might try to expand on those connections since the Unrest project is to some degree a way in which I try, with varying degrees of success, to mix the two realms I care most about – art and politics. Check out Lori’s paintings here and have your mind blown: http://beautifuldecay.com/2013/04/18/paintings-inspired-by-the-perception-and-misconception-of-middle-america/
Work by Lori Larusso
Nino Chubinishvili has created her own Alter-Modern world in Tbilisi. She is not self-described adherent of Deleuzian Multiplicities or Hardt and Negri’s Multitude. She has just created her own world. Sometimes this happens at her own studio in Arts Academy, in some cases in her own house on Mtatsminda region, or sometimes even at “Mukha Tsakatukha” Café, where many alternative artists visit and chat. She smoking a flower like an Eastern woman and is dressed like a Western Woman. But she does not identify with any of those worlds necessarily – she has created her own. One can’t help but think of Frantz Fanon’s “Algeria Unveiled” – the protest of women, who sometimes hid behind the veils and sometimes dressed totally like European women in order to confuse colonizers. In the face of liberal cultural colonization of Georgia, Chubik (as her friends call her since childhood) has discovered her own identity, which is different.
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Or how I’m getting to know my neighborhood from the ground up and share it with the world.
Decay + DC (a Tumblr photoblog http://unrestmag.tumblr.com) began as an attempt to understand my new neighborhood. After two years of the suburban sterility of Arlington, Virginia I relished the opportunity to move back to a city, particularly one as diverse and rich in history as Washington, DC. One might be tempted to dismiss the significance in a move of only seven miles; one would be mistaken.
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For many, summer holidays involve camping in a national park, tanning on a beach, or perhaps soaking up culture in a European city. If this sounds a little tame, why not consider using your vacation to summit a mountain covered in landmines and visiting a thousand year old temple that marks the frontline of an active international conflict? Unbelievable, impossible, or plain irresponsible? As Tom Richardson writes, sometimes truth is stranger than fiction.
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The testimonies of these 13 women from different parts of Colombia strikingly reveal how the country’s ongoing armed conflict has affected the bodies, spirits and lives of its women and girls. It is an effort to make the conditions these women cope with visible, reflecting their faces, their words and the places where they currently live, and showing the fear and pain that Colombia’s ongoing armed conflict has made them endure. In these pages, 13 indigenous, urban, peasant, artisan and Afro-descendant women weave a tapestry of women’s history in times of bitter confrontations.
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Sara Potler is the Founder and CEO of Dance 4 Peace (D4P), a global peace education, civic engagement nonprofit that engages young people through dance and creative movement. D4P inspires a generation of leaders and peacemakers through an innovative curriculum that promotes empathy, mediation skills, anger management, and conflict resolution to instill social and emotional competencies for peace.
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