How does emergency produce revolution?
The Summit 2024, States of Emergence: Land After Property and Catastrophe, is organized in response to the unprecedented global protests against imperialism and a United States presidential election that many are calling a breaking point of democracy. The Summit confronts our era of crisis—the climate crisis, migrant crisis, constitutional crisis, affordability crisis, housing crisis, and on and on—not as singular moments in time but rather as a long historical arch set forth by the making and remaking of colonial borders. States of Emergence: Land After Property and Catastrophe presents new and reactivated forms of socially engaged art and political organizing that have emerged from an ongoing state of emergency and offers paths forward to working with and against governments, industry, and others in power toward land-based restitution, self-determination, and liberation.
Considering borders and statelessness, land rights, agriculture, climate, resources, formations for living beyond property, the Summit brings together artists, activists, and thought leaders from across the world who are mounting tactics of land justice, redistribution, reparation, sovereignty, and other reimaginings of the relationships between communities and land.
The Summit 2024 is curated by Creative Time Curator Diya Vij with Associate Curator Anna Harsanyi and Artist Research Manager Gervais Marsh in thought partnership with Summit 2024 Advisors: Sarah Biscarra Dilley, Ntone Edjabe, Emily Jacir, Maya Juracán, Adam Khalil, Dominic Leong, Aziz Sohail, and Hanlu Zhang.
Summit Presenters:
Dylan Saba, River Whittle, Michael Partis, Sean Connelly, Alofipo So’oalo Fleur Ramsay, Andrés Cano Sierra, Tizintizwa (Nadir Bouhmouch and Soumeya Ait Ahmed), Centre D’art Waza (Feza Kayungu & Patrick Mudekereza), Anca Benera & Arnold Estefan, Ather Zia, Isshaq Albarbary, Tanya Aguiñiga, Leil Mortada, Emily Johnson, Kezi Collective, Natalie Diaz, Dar Jacir for Art and Research (Emily Jacir & Reem Mussa Khatib), Natalie Ball, Karachi Lajamia (Shahana Rajani & Zahra Malkani), Andrea Ballestero, Eliza Evans, Mao Chenyu, La Nietas de Nono (mulowayi iyaye nonó & mapenzi chibale nonó), Abou Farman, Marwa Arsanios, Enzo Camacho & Ami Lien, Rinaldo Walcott, New Red Order.
Summit Advisors:
Sarah Biscarra Dilley, Ntone Edjabe, Emily Jacir, Maya Juracán, Adam Shingwak Khalil, Dominic Leong, Aziz Sohail, Hanlu Zhang.