Alterotopia will be the second iteration of two practices coming together: the artistic practice of Marijke de Pous and the activist academic practice of Flor Avelino. The images you have seen above are artworks that came out of our first collaboration in the run up to Flor’s inaugural lecture ‘The Paradox of Power’ (2024). Apart from finding resonance in the content of each others work, we share a passion to gain insight and strength from paradoxical thinking, heartache for the deeply rooted troubles and injustices of our times, an alter-political passion for transformative change and last but not least, a deep appreciation of the joys and beauty of life.

With Alterotopia we want to deepen our sense of what is at stake in our practices and explore the radical potential of this type of collaboration. Our hope is that Alterotopia will become the home of many other creative encounters at the intersections of art, research and activism.  A place to share the audio, visual and written work that these encounters inspire, and an invitation to reflect and learn from the practices and methods we will experiment with.

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