Creating Nearby: Allies, Agents, and Co-conspirators

What does it look like to actively use one’s agency or position of privilege to empower others? The series Creating Nearby borrows its title from filmmaker Trinh T. Minh-Ha’s famed notion of “speaking nearby,” which considers how one might work in proximity, or across difference. This series looks to instances where the production of moving images reaches beyond creative collaboration to situations in which artists’ work serves to aid and abet others directly in the challenging of systems of power and the acceleration of change.