Create News 36 – Abundant Futures: Building Equity in a Divided World

Create’s work has always been to support artists, academics and activists working in community contexts to tackle important social issues. While the principles of this work remain largely the same, the context in which it takes place is ever-evolving.

We invited artist Dana Olărescu to reflect on the contemporary issues of divisive information and the division of communities and to discuss how collaborative socially engaged artists can navigate these challenges in their work.

Dana is a socially engaged artist working at the intersection of installation, performance, and social design, who focuses on challenging minority exclusion and environmental injustice. Through participatory methodologies that democratise access to art and knowledge, she aims to give underserved migrant groups and people habitually excluded from decision-making processes the agency to become active co-producers of culture.

Read the full issue here.