PROTODISPATCH

PROTODISPATCH

Protodispatch is a monthly digital publication featuring artists' perspectives on contemporary life and transcontinental political, social, cultural, environmental, and economic issues.

 



15 MAYIS, 2023

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.









15 NISAN, 2023

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.



15 MART, 2023

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.



15 ŞUBAT, 2023

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.



13 OCAK, 2023

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.



15 KASIM, 2022

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.



15 EKIM, 2022

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.



3 EKIM, 2022

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.



14 EYLÜL, 2022

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.