Partners

We partner with universities and arts institutions in key areas of the United States to develop a network that supports the exploration of anti-authoritarian imaginaries, including new expressions of freedom and equality across different sites.

Bay Area

Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA)

BAMPFA ignites cultural change for a more inclusive and artistic world. BAMPFA has been uniquely dedicated to art and film since 1970, with international programming that is locally connected and globally relevant. It holds more than 25,000 artworks and 18,000 films and videos in its collection.

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (FAMSF)

Together, the de Young in Golden Gate Park and the Legion of Honor in Lincoln Park make up FAMSF, the largest public arts institution in the city and one of the largest art museums in the United States. Its mission is to connect visitors with local and global art and stimulate their creative agency in their own futures.

SOMArts

SOMArts leverages the power of art as a tool for social change through multi-disciplinary events and exhibitions, equipping artists with the space, mentorship, and support they need to shift perspectives and innovate solutions to today’s pressing challenges.

Austin

The Contemporary Austin

The Contemporary Austin comprises two locations: the historic Jones Center on Congress Avenue in downtown Austin, and Laguna Gloria, a fourteen-acre art-in-nature site. Its programs join art with place in pursuit of a deeper experience, a bigger conversation, and a closer community.

Chicago

Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory (3CT), University of Chicago

3CT is a space for the critical discussion and reimagination of social, political, and cultural processes in the world today. Founded in 2004 by seven faculty members from the Divisions of the Humanities and the Social Sciences, the collective has grown to include 16 fellows, enabling imaginative collaborations across the disciplines.

Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago

As the fine arts museum of the University of Chicago, the Smart Museum is a site for rigorous inquiry and exchange that encourages the examination of complex issues through the lens of art objects and artistic practice, expanding artistic canons and engaging diverse communities locally, nationally, and internationally.

New York City

New York Live Arts

A center of diverse artists devoted to body-based investigation that transcends barriers between and within communities, led by world-renowned artist Bill T. Jones. Live Arts brings people together to explore common values through live gathering and performance.

National

Sanctuary Campus Network

The Sanctuary Campus Network is a coalition of students, faculty, and staff organizing to protect communities targeted by state repression, including migrants, queer and trans people, Indigenous nations, and people of color. Through local and regional organizing groups, the network shares resources and builds networks of care, working to resist immigration enforcement on campus and to dismantle policing and surveillance within academic institutions.

Digital & International

EhChO.org

EhChO is an arts organization that gathers artistic interventions committed to decolonization, through study groups, seminars, online meetings, and public events that undermine and expose the violence of modern political architecture.

Emergencies of Authoritarianism

Led by PIs Robin Celikates and Daniel Loick, this project analyzes authoritarian, right-wing populist, and fascist tendencies as they gain strength worldwide, working with a global network of equal partners from the Global South alongside NGOs, cultural institutions, and journalists.

Center for Contemporary Culture of Barcelona (CCCB)

Directed by Judit Carrera, CCCB is a multidisciplinary cultural center that deals with the key challenges of contemporary society through major thematic exhibitions, conferences, literary meetups, and film screenings. The CCCB has hosted ICCTP events annually for the last several years.

See how these institutions fit into the network, the questions driving the work, and the people leading it.