freeDimensional

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Brooklyn, NY

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About Me:

Critical People - Critical Places - Critical Issues
freeDimensional is a platform of collaboration for linking artistic communities to social justice movements globally. http://freeDimensional.or…moreg For issues to reach society at large, free and open expression is critical. At times imposed limitations or censorship require movement of voices and ideas in order for expression to be possible, safe, and unrestricted. Herein lies our opportunity to act. By connecting critical people, places, and issues freeDimensional serves as a platform of collaboration for linking artistic communities to creative individuals and social justice movements worldwide. The freeDimensional vision freeDimensional envisions a world in which diverse ideas and rigorous debate are nurtured by community spaces that are unique for their creative outlook, a process that results in direct action on critical, contemporary issues. The freeDimensional mission freeDimensional organizes community arts space and local resources for the support and protection of individuals who create dialogue on global issues and inequalities through their art and media. Recognizing new issues Through its extensive network of 50 international partner sites, freeDimensional is able to identify and respond to issues that lead to censorship. With our regional knowledge hubs in Cairo (The Townhouse Gallery), Sao Paulo (Casa das Caldeiras), Kuala Lumpur (International Forum for InterMedia Art), Berlin (UfaFabrik), and New York City (Center for International Art in Community) freeDimensional is able to act globally to facilitate rapid response solutions for creative individuals in distress. freeDimensional seeks to highlight the conditions of mobility, migration, and free expression faced by culture workers (artists, activists and citizen journalists) and the implications these hold for society at large. We engage in a particular style of networking that builds on existing resources in the art, media and entertainment sectors in order to engage and financially underwrite direct actions necessary to help culture workers-in-distress and use their stories to illustrate critical, contemporary issues. Art and creativity are often commodified without acknowledgment of the social issues they represent, and thus the relation between culture and society erodes. freeDimensional seeks to strengthen this relation by taking practical steps to ensure individual safety, raise awareness and instigate change. freeDimensional has initiated the following actions with artistic communities to assist artists, activists, and citizen journalists addressing global issues and inequalities: - rapid response safe haven - art spaces hosting activists for strategic access to decision-makers - mobility funding - income generation - regional & issue-based dialogues among artists, activists and journalists - distress services mapping and placement referrals - tool-kits for new community arts spaces - thematic campaigns (including publications, meetings, research, exhibitions, programs and policy advocacy for vulnerable groups) Plan of action freeDimensional was founded in New York City in 2005. In 2008 the freeDimensional office moves to The Townhouse Gallery in Cairo to work on issues of forced migrants "Living Together" with Egyptians, after which the office will rotate to Casa das Caldeiras in Sao Paulo, Brazil in order to focus on the theme of urban youth. freeDimensional then shifts to Asia before landing in Berlin for its 2009 general assembly. In 2010 we return to New York City and take up residence in a newly-designed, green community facility in Brooklyn. Join our mailing list - Check out our calendar - Get involved http://freeDimensional.org

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social justice, art, human rights, activism, journalism, sustaina…morebility, environmentalism, international art, artist residencies, residential artist communities, new york, brooklyn