WHAT WE DO
We organise projects at the intersection of art, activism and social practice.
By now we have pretty diverse set of themes that we work with, from textile repair, to psychological support, to tracing global and local waste streams. What unites them is the attention to structurally overlooked things and the hope to make the world a slightly better place.
WHY THIS NAME
Thick Present is a fancy term for seeing and describing the world that we live in in connection to its past and future, where the present reality includes decisions and actions of several generations that came before us and lives of several others that will come after. It is also about connections between living beings close by and far away, even though these connections might seem complex, problematic or non existent at the first sight.
Seen and approached this way the present feels richer, more meaningful, and even more important.
Donna Haraway writes about it as of “a tentacular web of troubling relations that matter now.” and we are very much inspired by her thinking.
Donna J Haraway, 2016, Staying with the trouble: Making kin in the Chthulucene. P.2