25th November 2024
International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women
The 1st Edition of WE is a collaborative piece featuring video submissions from our artists, from all around the world honoring November 25th: International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. This edition will be projected in locations worldwide, focusing on confronting oppression through unity and utilizing our collective strength to challenge systemic violence and dismantle the dominant narratives of fragility.
Fragility is a discourse that imprisons us all, women, and the environment. Don’t be mistaken: the systems that harm and kill us are not our saviors. The notion of “fragile ecosystems” or “fragile genders” is misleading. This project aims to unveil the so-called protective narratives and reveal the hidden violations beneath them.
Isadora Canela
Posters First Edition – Screening
in the Following Cities:
October 31st 2024 – Evia Island, Greece November 17th 2024 – Genova, Italy November 24-25th 2024 – Norwich, UK November 25th 2024 – Iceland November 25th 2024 – Cuneo, Italy November 25th 2024 – Pisa, Italy November 25th 2024 – Berlin, Germany November 26th 2024 – Suffolk, UK
For generations, philosophers, poets, and artists have wrestled to reclaim humanity’s story, defying the dominion of the thoughtsmiths who cast us as fallen—condemned, unworthy of freedom. In their defiance, artists envisioned humanity as sovereign, architects of destiny, free to choose its path. But now, the very voices that once cried for freedom of choice murmur condemnation: “We have indeed drunk up the seas and erased the horizon. We have severed the earth from its sun.”
We, the heirs who once rejected the sins of our fathers, are now the progenitors of guilt. And now, our children will carry the weight of our trespasses, searching for redemption in the shadows of our choices. Yes, we have rewritten the story of the fall with the Anthropocene’s signature sin.
If the deepest existential trial of humanity was once to face the solitude of death, the new human faces something far graver: extinction. Where once, in the threshold of annihilation, the finite self found immortality in the enduring resonance of deeds and the seeds sown for futures unseen, now what will we become when the echoes are drowned by the wail of wars? When minds are hollowed by hunger? What becomes of our seeds when the soil lies barren, stripped of its promise? No! The agony of the new age is not the solitude of separation from life’s thread—it is the unraveling of the thread itself. The fabric of existence frays into a void, and the quiet terror of nothingness waits at the edges of consciousness.
Does not a new epoch demand a new art? Shall art linger as a passive narrator, a lament for what is slipping away, or shall it rise as a force of intervention?
The Anthropocene asks of us something unprecedented: to transform art from a mirror of the human condition into a hammer that reshapes it. The art of this new era must transcend its traditional bounds. It must not only provoke thought but inspire movements. It must break free from galleries and pages, infiltrating the social, political, and environmental spheres to reverse this spiral of destruction. It must weave science, activism, and imagination into a tapestry of action.
Anahita Sahar Babaei