Aastha Chauhan | Tate

Faced with climate change and other interconnected existential crises in the twenty-first century, it is quickly becoming a cliché to say that there is a strong need to “imagine better futures.” But such a statement hides many questions and challenges. Who gets to imagine these futures? Who feels safe and supported enough, economically, politically... See more

In her poem “NewSpeakers,” Gloria Anzaldua proclaims We don’t want to be / Stars but parts / of constellations . Living now in a time of heightened disparity and manifold global atrocities being committed across political factions, Gloria’s proclamation resists the oppressive systems that thrive on individualism, isolation, division, and scarcity. ... See more

I am interested in forms and systems that exist in our context that are actually far ahead of the systems of archiving that we’ve been conditioned into. And thinking about things that are digital is often so interesting because there’s alignment within what is hybrid, shifting, evolving, and mutating. Or that are ritual, oral, aural, to something t... See more

By encouraging contemporary art museums to experiment with similar value flow curation, we hope to initiate a friendly, positive-sum competition among cultural institutions to connect in deeper ways with the material conditions of art workers and audiences.