Leaving behind the outdated romanticizing of suffering and mental health issues in an artistic process, we continue with the Mental Health Awareness Month exhibition series to speak about the effects of housing (in)stability on a creative process.
Through this open call, we invite artists to explore the topic of home and housing and its relationship with their own practice, merging the practical and personal with political and public.
Around this time last year, Dr. Ayesha Khan published an article about decolonizing hope that had a profound effect on me. In the text entitled “How do we keep hope alive in our movements?”, Khan discusses the contradictions of hope but mainly the difference between the hopefulness of a freedom fighter and the hopelessness caused by individualism and colonial values in the West.
