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2 minutes to midnight an extravaganza
Now’s the time to shift the story
2 minutes to midnight – an extravaganza looks at the world through the eyes of a book. Season one takes its cue from People Get Ready: The Fight Against a Jobless Economy and a Citizenless Democracy, a cautionary tale about accelerating computing power, democracy, and capitalism. It’s a year’s worth of discovery & play.
- Highlights
- Extravaganza
- Podcast
- What Matters
Creativity
Welcome to the main stage where creatives from around the world share works inspired by People Get Ready: The Fight Against a Jobless Economy and a Citizenless Democracy.
Activism
What visions can unify organizations and strengthen movements that prioritize people and planet over profits?
Livelihood
How would professions and the work we do transform in a world where people and planet come before profits?
Health
Awareness, emotion, compassion… What’s essential for us to develop personally to benefit the future that is now?
- Creativity
- Activism
- Livelihood
- Health
Welcome to the main stage where creatives from around the world share works inspired by People Get Ready: The Fight Against a Jobless Economy and a Citizenless Democracy.
Echoes with Dr. Sanjay Modgill
Film
'Echoes' explores the increasing use of Artificial Intelligence in our society, particularly focusing on its effect on Democracy. This topic is discussed with a Professor in Artificial Intelligence from King's College London.
The Love That Heals
Other
My artwork, "The Love that Heals " is inspired by the solidarity, coming together, sharing, the act of doing something together. It is important in this period of international lockdown In the period of Quarantine and Covid 19 that there is solidarity among the phrases in different languages to support new rules of life but with the national characteristics of every nation and between past and present.
In Italy in the social centers and some citizens of Naples help the families from the balconies following the example of doctor Saint Giuseppe Moscati in the past and a his famous phrase in his study to raise money for his poor patients: "Who can take, who cannot put." Really these phrase are written also in his memory on the baskets of the Centers Social Technique Description
The Love that Heals :
Dimensions cm 25 x cm 35
Media: mixed/collage digital art, photo printed
Materials: paper, adhesives letters of various type (rubber, metallic, glitters. plastic)
Design created with Adobe Illustrator, glue glitters coloured
Year: 2020
A Little Piece of Light
Painting
A future were everyone and everything can co exist thriving growing surviving together reproductive movements manifest life energy in this image.
Lento Meneo (Slow Wiggle)
Sculpture
Lento Meneo, representa la fuerza de los Movimientos dentro de los lentos procesos que existen en la búsqueda de cambios efectivos y reales. La obra se compone de cuerpos de mujeres unidas en un lento meneo, pero con un fuerte movimiento, necesario para sentir la libertad de existir sin prejuicios ni divisiones.
Slow Wiggle, represents the strength of the
Movements within the slow processes that exist in the search for real and effective changes. The work is made up of women's bodies united in a slow wiggle, but with a strong movement, necessary to feel the freedom to exist without prejudice or divisions.
Escultura de yeso pintada
Alto 35.5 cm
Diámetro 43cm
Robotnik – A Worker’s Tale
Film
"Robotnik" is the polish word for worker. In this short film we aimed to represent the return home at late night of a worker who is injuried. The injured hand is a strong metaphor of the working class condition all around the world, exploited and seen only as a mere variable within the production processes and factors of production, like a machine.
El Cantar de los Fugaos (The Song of the Fugues)
Music
This song written by the musician Tarik Rahim but it is inspired by of a folk song from northern Spain called "El Cantar de Los Fugaos" which translated to English means "The Chant Of The Hidden People". The original song tells the story of the people who believe on political leftwing values who needed to hide from the rightwing dictatorship that used to persecute all of those who stood for leftwing political ideas.
For this song the musician Tarik Rahim counted on Ruben Rionda as a drummer and Mateo Airey has a bass player to be able to play the song live.
Love O’Clock
Graphic Design
It is a revealing piece, which claims the importance of time in our lives. A call to stop, analyze and awaken the conscience of the ephemeral measurement of a time that is ours and that never returns.
Alessia et Cetera
Nomadic and creative soul.
From a very young age, my education began on the path of dance and music, a cultural heritage that until today has allowed me to dedicate my life to art and design. I have a degree in scenography from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Rome and subsequently I moved to Bilbao, where I continue to train and work in the audiovisual world, from photography and illustration to post-production and graphic design.
It is with deep love and dedication that I continue to create and share my work with the world.
Useful
Film
While we were dancing in the waterfalls of uncertainty, working, sharing and traveling together to these feelings were one of the beautiful things of 2020. Capitalism is inside us and until we know that and start our steps in the deconstruction, we are in pain. This video try to explain this pain. Being to be watched, working to be no one.
What visions can unify organizations and strengthen movements that prioritize people and planet over profits?
How would professions and the work we do transform in a world where people and planet come before profits?
Awareness, emotion, compassion… What’s essential for us to develop personally to benefit the future that is now?
2 minutes to midnight – a podcast extravaganza is about:
Power, money, work, and how it began.Politicians, law, technology, and what’s ahead.
Activism, democracy, health, and the future that is now.
18 episodes, 20 hosts, special guests, possibilities.
People get ready.
Coming Soon.
Make a video (mp4 or mov/1080w x 1920h) and share your vision on one or more of these vital issues and be featured on Catalysta social media:
- What is the responsibility of a citizen of a democracy?
- How would the world change if people and planet came before profits?
- What does accelerating computing power in the hands of the .1% mean for our future?
- Climate change, social justice, animal rights… How can the need for democracy and a democratic economy unify and strengthen all types of activist movements?
- Awareness, emotion, compassion… What’s essential for us to develop personally to benefit the future that is now?
- How would the work we do and our professions transform in a world where people and planet come before profits?
Ekaterina Poronkina
Moscow, Russia
Mpumi Maseko
Pretoria, South Africa
Thomas Maseko
Pretoria, South Africa
Naledi Sekhukhune
Pretoria, South Africa
Timothy Darden
Brooklyn, United States of America
Alberto Laffi
Milan, Italy
Justina Oyem
Lagos, Nigeria
Olaoluwa Ojumu
Lagos, Nigeria
You're invited to collaborate with 2m2m.
Find out what People Get Ready is all about.
Introduction
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Adventure through 2m2m with 18 artists and an activist as they connect, consider, engage, process and present.
Connect (Part 1)
Connect (Part 2)
Connect (Part 3)
Consider (Part 1)
Consider (Part 2)
Consider (Part 3)
Engage (Part 1)
Engage (Part 2)
Engage (Part 3)
Engage (Part 4)
Engage (Part 5)
Engage (Part 6)
Comics Process
Sculpture Process
Theater Process
Dance Process
Film Process
Activism Process
Graphic Design Process
Improv Process
Instrumental Process
Creative Tech Process
Stand Up Process
Song Process
Performance Art Process
Photography Process
Fiction Process
Painting Process
Poetry Process
Nonfiction Process
Animation Process
An Animator Presents
A Journalist Presents
A Poet Presents
A Writer Presents
A Photographer Presents
A Performance Artist Presents
Musicians Present
A Comedian Presents
A Creative Tech Presents
A Composer Presents
Improvisors Present
A Graphic Designer Presents
An Activist Presents
A Filmmaker Presents
A Sculptor Presents
A Theater Impresario Presents
A Cartoonist Presents
A Dancer Presents
Challenge the imagination crisis.
We're entering a maelstrom of change technologically, socially, and politically. Left vs. right is a distraction from what's unfolding invisibly and in full view. It's a story that connects democracy, capitalism, technology and how we see and feel the world. It's the future that's now.
