WHAT WE DO
We explore how participatory practices can respond to complex social and ecological challenges that are often treated separately. Working at the intersection of art, activism, and social practice, we develop long-term projects that foster critical reflection, radical imagination, and new forms of care.
Our work focuses on understanding and transforming the relationship between social precarity and ecological systems, connecting lived experiences with the larger structures that shape them.
Through collaborative programs, we create spaces where people can reflect, build connections, and actively engage with their environments.
WHY THIS NAME
Thick Present is a 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 inspired by her thinking.
Donna J Haraway, 2016, Staying with the trouble: Making kin in the Chthulucene. P.2