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The Outro Message to “Artists-In-Presidents: Transmissions to Power” is a soundscape bringing together messages from across the 21 episodes, and new reflections from contributors on their participation in the project. In this immersive composit
“We can’t lose sight of the fact that we need each other, especially because we don’t have precisely the same experiences, feelings, or words.”As the twenty-first and final contributor to Artists-in-Presidents, project initiator Constance Hoc
“There is an urgency to save our time from becoming the cost of business.”Raqs Media Collective’s trio-logue binds economics to climate change, extinction, and extractivism. They stress the externalized costs of our accepted capitalist logics
“Resistance, and the fight for freedom are still sacred for us. We must not lose our last hope or abandon our dreams. And we want you not to lose your voice or abandon your rights.”Ramin Mazhar’s visceral speech shares the plight of human rig
“Resistance, and the fight for freedom are still sacred for us. We must not lose our last hope or abandon our dreams. And we want you not to lose your voice or abandon your rights.”Ramin Mazhar’s visceral speech shares the plight of human rig
“[O]urs was a struggle not to take power. But to dismantle power altogether. We made presidency an empty seat, a void, a space never to be acquired nor exercised.”In a speculative address by three performers, Paulo Tavares weaves a story of s
“A healthy ecosystem is a multitude of life forces. So love yourself. Be fulfilled in your meadow flower-ness, your mossiness, your grassiness, your rockiness, your wild animal-ness. We are all related.”Cheryl L’Hirondelle shares Cree songs a
“Not too long ago, humans and nonhumans lived in co-dependency. We intuited, breathed, and created together. Their offspring was mine and my offspring was theirs.”In an intimate letter from an older generation, Raji Aujla links gender-based o
“Not too long ago, humans and nonhumans lived in co-dependency. We intuited, breathed, and created together. Their offspring was mine and my offspring was theirs.”In an intimate letter from an older generation, Raji Aujla links gender-based o
“I’m scared. I’m fragile, weak, and scared.”Roy Dib smokes, checks Instagram, and looks out onto the Mediterranean while delivering a pensive monologue on love, sex, nationhood, and migration. Between drags, Dib pries apart the norms that ost
“How do our cells become oriented to justice?” Dancer and activist Emily Johnson invites us to embody justice through song, dance, and vibration. “Think of the ground lifting up with you, beneath your feet … this vibratory lift. The stomp is
“This body is a shelter, / of networking, of systems, / which give a complete life / and responsibilities / beyond culture, classes, and language.”Punctuated by gasps, inhalations, whispers, and nonverbal vocalizations, performance artist Mel
“Never let go of your authentic self, even if it must be in hiding for now. Protect it like a lit match in the wind. Don’t let fear blow it out.”Blending frankness and wit, Esra’a Al Shafei speaks out against state-led repression of speech an
“Today we see that the past is the future, and what once was will be once again.”Stimson offers a powerful call-and-response to John F. Kennedy’s 1961 Presidential Address, using JFK’s words as a springboard to advocate for decolonization and
“Only we, the people together, can inhabit the world differently. We are not united by the illusion of saving the world but defending life, binding ourselves to the territory through relationships of reciprocity.”In a future where queer leade
“Only we, the people together, can inhabit the world differently. We are not united by the illusion of saving the world but defending life, binding ourselves to the territory through relationships of reciprocity.”In a future where queer leade
“Is it my greed? Is it my greed that propels me to behave like this? How do I learn to share? Is it my fear? Is it my fear that propels me to behave like this? How do I learn to not be afraid of the unknown?”Writing as Patriarchy Misogyny, an
“Do you even know what you want to want?”Jacob takes us on a looping and circuitous path through self-care and empowerment rhetoric. “Own it!” “You know you want it.” “I’m over it—you do you.” With a text-to-speech device twisting these words
“Hope has always been necessary, but I do wonder if we’ve ever really had it.”Set against the backdrop of COVID-19 in New York, and rooted in complicated family histories, Róisín’s address advocates for hope in spite of its many obstacles. In
“When I say ‘Let’s get cozy,’ I’m asking you to join me in the making of a new and better world.”Gotkin reflects on the historical, social, and political meanings of coziness—from its origins in consumer culture, through to its contemporary u
“drag your body into the sunlight / dig a hole and bury yourself in it”Delivered via distorted and whispering proxy, Walden sends a biocentric message from the swamp: “take a lower kind of view / spend some time with the bugs in the dirt bath
“We envision a timeless and a historical future. We bury our seen and unseen dead. We mourn all of our losses. We catalogue our human and more-than-human martyrs in the war against you, Earth.”In an intimate letter to Earth, Madre Tierra, Pac
“Keep going, keep going.”Wngz sings, whispers, and celebrates the legacies and histories that helped her find her voice: Sankofa; Harriet Tubman; Jackie Shane; abolitionism. Weaving together centuries-old traditions of struggle with those of
“There is no doubt our future will be unlike any other in the history of humanity, when we choose to remember. When we choose to restore the stories our ancestors once told.”Spoken with the gravitas endowed by a pulpit or lectern, Mkomose for
“To live, we need to breathe, to be held and to hold, to love and be loved, to make kin and communities. Yes, to love and be loved.” In a rousing address to “sisters and brothers, comrades and friends,” Vergès offers a call for peace, love, a
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