Announcing GIFT – a film by our friend Robin McKenna
UncategorizedWhat better response to the apocalypse could there be than courage, generosity, and our best creative selves? Times are dark… but the spirit of the gift lives, and might be the most important thing we have to offer. “In times like these,...
Da Favela com Amor
UncategorizedEducar é o maior ato de amor, o aprendizado é real quando temos amorosidade. Sem pensar, apenas sentir, sentir o presente de conhecer o outro e sua bagagem. Com o olhar de 360º graus, sem exclusão, apenas devemos amar, receber e sent...
Kebradas UniDiversity goes to India
Courses & Un/Learning ExpeditionsOur incredible TEN Fellow, Giselle Paulino, is co-creating a remarkable Un/learning Journey in February with five of the mestres of Kebradas UniDiversity in Brazil. They are partnering with our mentors, Vidhi and Manish Jain to offer an ...
Mushroom news
UncategorizedOur curator Nuno Da Silva is now the editor of the Mushroom and is composting the current format to give life to an underground guerilla style series of events designed to create spaces in which we can share and engage in challenging con...
Vunja News
UncategorizedVunja means “rupture”! The Emergence Network’s ‘Vunja’ is a social art project – inspired by the historical resilience, troubles, journeys and promise of African peoples – that seeks to galvanize a trans-local community around a set of...
The Allegory of the Pit: Or the Irony of Victory
WritingsExiting Plato’s Cave Perhaps there are few who haven’t heard about Plato or his famous allegory of the cave. The influential 5th century Greek philosopher – whose commitments to strengthening the nascent intellectual traditions of ...
Favelas as Other Places of Power
UncategorizedIn Mestres das Kebradas, TEN Fellow Giselle Paulino shows us how the favela is a site of ‘queer’ power, learning and community. Take a look at some of the ongoing projects that are reclaiming the favela as an alternative to the disenchan...
What a Mountain Sees that a Telescope Cannot
Uncategorized“E pur si muove…” The telescope plays yet another vexed starring role at the turning of the tide: at a time when political sympathies seem divided between science’s stentorian and urgent call for the industrial world to stop abus...
Rupture of the Rupture: Vunja
UncategorizedThe Emergence Network embarked on a project called ‘Vunja’ this year – hoping to weave together an ambitious project of festivals around the theme of decoloniality and new worlds. Vunja is about opening up other places of power, es...
The Wolf Tone
Uncategorizedapophasis (n.) when one can only describe something by stating which characteristics it does not have (such as nonviolence) — especially because human thought or language remains insufficient to describe it fully or accurately (such as...