Explore the Series
ArtsEverywhere is a platform for artistic experimentation and exploration of the fault lines of modern society.
People of Flour, Salt, and Water
A film and a collection of essays, artistic works, and histories drawn from the book, When the Roots Start Moving—To Navigate Backward—Resonating with Zapatismo.
Artistic Practice
A collection of artistic works that show the broad range of contemporary practices in the world today.
Breathing
A ground-breaking blend of conceptual art, documentary film, and ethnographic research from the mountains of southwest China by conceptual artist Zhao Rongjie.
Poetry
A collection of contemporary poetry by established and emerging writers. Illustrated by Italian-Canadian artist Greta Riondato.
Yiddishland
A Country Whose Language Has No Military Terminology
Complicating Care
This series holds a collection of articles by artists and writers who share the ways in which their practices, communities, and experiences engage with the complex and contradictory notion of care.
Life & Language: the Dictionary of the Queer International
This series on queer language gathers personal stories, linguistic histories, creative writing, and cultural narratives that gesture toward the realization of an internationalist solidarity infused with the struggles, histories, desires, and exuberances of queer life and language everywhere.
Rise Up & Talk: Refugee Radio
An ArtsEverywhere-supported project that provides refugees living in Bidi Bidi settlement, West Nile, Uganda with equipment, expertise, and a platform to share their stories with the world.
Art-Life Rituals for Radical Tenderness
A series by artists whose work travels between physical, social, and metabolic bodies, to create intimate art-life ritual responses to the text Co-sensing with Radical Tenderness.
Polity of Literature
This series asks how writing and reading can become the site of politics, especially for those excluded from state politics (such as prisoners, refugees, or children).
Curse of Geography
Investigative reports on the relationship of geographic proximity/isolation to social justice, human rights, and public policy in under-reported locations around the world.
Ways of Seeing: Russian Colonialisms
This series was published on ArtsEverywhere in 2017 at a time when the spectre of Russian expansionism was still very present in our minds after their annexation of Crimea and incursions into Donbas. Now, in 2022, with Russia's aggression against Ukraine and its attempts to undermine Ukraine's sovereignty through war, make this series highly relevant to the conversations we need to have today.
Latest Articles
Staff Picks From the GOAT PoL #4
Over at The GOAT PoL, our eight Reader/Advisor/Editors (RAEs) are working with scores of stateless, refugee, and disenfranchised writers, publishing one or two dozen of their new stories every week.
Refugee Archipelago: Chapter II
Memories from the first days of Bidi Bidi Refugee Settlement.
Staff Picks From the GOAT PoL #3
Over at The GOAT PoL, our eight Reader/Advisor/Editors (RAEs) are working with scores of stateless, refugee, and disenfranchised writers, publishing one or two dozen of their new stories every week.
The Struggle, the Spectrum and other Absolutes
Must the artist struggle in order to create works that move the culture? Writer Ricky Tucker explores this question with Charly Dominguez, NYC artist and Ballroom community organizer.
Seeds & Seeds: Tibet
Episode 4 of an ethnographic docuseries from Tibetan Yunnan that explores the decisions communities face when modern development and environmental fragility converge.
A Sudden Son of Revolution
An homage to a young revolutionary who continues to fight for the democratic future of Myanmar from rebel lands.
The Film: People of Flour, Salt, and Water
People of Flour, Salt, and Water is the second film made by Chto Delat as part of their series “Slow Orientation in Zapatismo.”
When the Roots Start Moving
An introduction to the book and learning process: Chto Delat and Free Home University in resonance with Zapatismo
Dispatch from Puglia
ArtsEverywhere editor, Sidd Joag, joins Free Home University in the summer of 2019 for the making of People of Flour, Salt, and Water.
Revelling in Black Vitality
An interview with Derrais Carter about Black Revelry, a collection of ekphrastic writing describing Ernie Barnes’ iconic painting, The Sugar Shack.
Making Films Zapatistically
The film director’s remarks on the guiding principles used to create recent films by Russian art collective Chto Delat.
Travel to Salento Zapatista
Journalist and activist Christian Peverieri writes about his experience of community-embeddedness at Free Home University with Casa delle Agriculture.
Current Projects
Our projects are community-led creative and social justice initiatives rooted in deep, personal connections and rigorous local storytelling. We publish work from the projects as part of their related Series.
Site-Specific Dances
Site Specific Dances is an experimental film series that transforms movement in nature into a form of non-narrative story-telling and environmental activism.
From Bloody Sunday to Brexit
An interdisciplinary, multisite exhibition commemorating the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday and exploring the implications of five decades of conflict and reconciliation in the face of Brexit.
AXS Film Fund
In partnership with AXS Lab, the AXS Film Fund provides support to documentary filmmakers and non-fiction new media creators of colour with disabilities in Canada, the U.S. and internationally.
CollectivX: Las Venas Que Nos Unen
Las Venas Que Nos Unen is a multidisciplinary collaboration between filmmakers, poets, musicians, performing and visual artists from the Isthmus of Tehuantepec who are united in defense of territory (land, sky, sea).
Bidi Bidi Media Lab
An ArtsEverywhere-supported project that provides refugees living in Bidi Bidi settlement, West Nile, Uganda with equipment, expertise, and a platform to share their stories with the world.
Fay Chiang Fellowship for Artistic Journalism
ArtsEverywhere's annual fellowship award supports experimentation and innovation in artistic journalism.
