PROTODISPATCH
Protodispatch is a monthly digital publication featuring artists' perspectives on contemporary life and transcontinental political, social, cultural, environmental, and economic issues.
AIDING AND ABETTING IRAN’S WOMEN’S REVOLUTION
Simone Leigh and Rashida Bumbray
How a group of transnational artists are using archiving and accelerated storytelling as radical acts of resistance.
AIDING AND ABETTING IRAN’S WOMEN’S REVOLUTION
Mel Chin
How a group of transnational artists are using archiving and accelerated storytelling as radical acts of resistance.
AIDING AND ABETTING IRAN’S WOMEN’S REVOLUTION
Jordan Deal
How a group of transnational artists are using archiving and accelerated storytelling as radical acts of resistance.
AIDING AND ABETTING IRAN’S WOMEN’S REVOLUTION
Homa and Saba*
How a group of transnational artists are using archiving and accelerated storytelling as radical acts of resistance.
A BLACK AQUATIC
Kenya (Robinson)
Through a hyperlinked lyric essay, and a forthcoming month-long social media takeover, Kenya (Robinson) explores the relationship between Black people and water—both fresh and saltwater—as an essential part of the storytelling of US histories.
WHAT WE HOLD IN COMMON
Ximena Garrido-Lecca & Ishmael Randall-Weeks
Ximena Garrido & Ishmael Randal Weeks describe a process of building a structure communally out of materials brought by participants, revealing the strength of collective memory and its capacity to unveil corruption and lies in the context of Peru’s recent and deep pasts.
RELEARNING THE ANCIENT: PATHS TO INDIGENOUS LAND RIGHTS IN BORIQUÉN
Jorge González and Angela Brown
An email exchange accompanied by a diary of images and texts, practices and reflects on the relearning of traditional crafts in Boriquén (Puerto Rico) as a recuperative strategy for colonial erasure.
WHEN HATE BECOMES AN INSTRUMENT: ANTI-LGBT+ RALLY IN ISTANBUL
Alper Turan with B. Toprak Karakaya, Leman Sevda Darıcıoğlu, and Koli Art Space (Yasemin Kalaycı & Elçin Acun)
The illusory victimhood of ultranationalists draws passionate responses from queer culture workers from Turkey who are committed to undoing their hate.
DOCUMENTARY UNDER THE GAZE OF THE STATE
Tiffany Sia with Emilie Sin Yi Choi and Chan Tze-Woon
Three Hongkongers got together in July 2022 to talk about the relationships between documentary filmmaking, protest, who gets to record history, and the challenges of working and screening films under the gaze of the state.