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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.
Concierto de Seis Cuerpos (A Concert of Six Bodies)
Sculpture
Relieve collage con papel y fibras vegetales de lino, endurecido con vinilo
Dimensiones: 68 x 95 x 5 cm.
Se encuentra en el Museo "Casa de los Tiros" de Granada, España.
Tres figuras con burkas (amarillo, blanco y negro) acarician sus violonchelos (como cuerpos de mujer desnudos) realizados con fibras naturales (color de la carne) y el espectador no puede evitar plantearse cuestiones importantes sobre el derecho de las mujeres al mirar la escena. ¿Privación de identidad? ¿Privación de creatividad? ¿De qué raza, amarilla, blanca o negra es la mujer que abraza el instrumento musical, símbolo artístico del cuerpo desnudo de la mujer? ¿En qué escenario podríamos escuchar su concierto? ¿Qué tipo de música escucharíamos de permitirles expresarse? ¿La artista que ha creado esta obra puede ser castigada por las leyes del Islam? ¿Se puede tocar un violonchelo sin abrir las piernas? La mujer conforma un grupo mayoritario de nuestra sociedad, siendo la excepción de esa norma de conducta humana que margina siempre a las minorías...
Embossed collage with paper and linen vegetable fibers, toughened with vinyl
Dimensions: 68 x 95 x 5 cm.
Located in the "Casa de los Tiros" Museum in Granada, Spain.
Three figures with burqas (yellow, white and black) caress their cellos (like naked women's bodies) made with natural fibers (color of the flesh) and the viewer cannot avoid asking important questions about the right of women to look at the scene. Identity deprivation? Creativity deprivation? Of what race, yellow, white or black, is the woman who embraces the musical instrument, an artistic symbol of a woman's naked body? On what stage could we hear your concert? What kind of music would we listen to to allow them to express themselves? Can the artist who created this work be punished by the laws of Islam? Can you play a cello without opening your legs? Women make up a majority group in our society, being the exception of that norm of human conduct that always marginalizes minorities ...
A Fez
Painting
La composición del cuadro se sitúa en la ciudad de Fez, en la plaza Seffarine, que capta un momento del día en que los artesanos caldereros trabajan el cobre para fabricar todo tipo de objetos de uso cotidiano.
La observación de la escena y su representación fotográfica me llevaron a interrogarme sobre diversas cuestiones: si en un futuro podrían convivir el mundo tecnológico y el artesanal, en qué punto se encuentra la humanidad, en su globalidad y cada uno como persona, .... A partir de estas cuestiones y del hecho indiscutible que somos biología y cultura.
Se invita al espectador una reflexión conceptual del mundo en que vive ahora y cuál sería su proyección de futuro.
The composition of the painting is located in the city of Fez, in Seffarine Square, which captures a moment of the day when the coppersmith artisans work copper to make all kinds of objects for daily use.
The observation of the scene and its photographic representation led me to question myself on various questions: if in the future the technological and artisan world could coexist, at what point is humanity, in its entirety and each one as a person, ... From these questions and from the indisputable fact that we are biology and culture.
The viewer is invited to make a conceptual reflection of the world in which he lives now and what his future projection would be.
Madrid
Graphic Design
Madrid tiene que ver con la economía por las personas.
Madrid ha pasado y pasa por una crisis económica que afecta a su comunidad, no sólo es por la pandemia, viene de antes (y me refiero a MADRID porque es la capital de España donde una decisión afecta a todo el país).
La economía depende de las personas y las personas de la economía. Es una rueda.
Basándome en la historia, vamos evolucionado y la corrupción también, siempre van unidas cogidas de la mano.
Pero Madrid es el eslabón de una cadena que se rompe para que se pueda crear una nueva unión de economía, investigación, gobernanza, trabajo... Nos podemos hundir pero no dejamos que se llegue al fondo, y eso lo hacemos las personas.
No sé si me he explicado bien. Pero en mi ilustración he querido reflejar la evolución que las personas han hecho para la economía de Madrid tanto para bien como para mal.
Madrid has to do with the economy for the people.
Madrid has been and is going through an economic crisis that affects its community, it is not only because of the pandemic, it comes from before (and I mean MADRID because it is the capital of Spain where a decision affects everything the country).
The economy depends on the people and the people of the economy. It is a wheel.
Based on history, we evolved and corruption too, they always go hand in hand.
But Madrid is the link in a chain that breaks so that it can be create a new union of economics, research, governance, work ... We can sink but we don't let it get to the bottom, and that we make people.
In my illustration I want to reflect the evolution that people have made for the economy of Madrid for both good and bad.
Greta Thunberg Looking Back At All The Things We Didn’t Do (Hero Portrait 2)
Painting
One of a series of Hero portraits. Silent calls to action. I worked very hard to make this painting realistic. I used oil paint to imagine the future appearance of someone, which of course, is impossible. For me painting is a way of thinking visually. For me this means a painting can neither be entirely abstract or realistic, which is what I love about the process of making them. A painting is no more or less than an air cured polymer composite object. What it is will always be my responsibility, what it means in words (if anything) will always be up to everybody else.
Kitikiti Sahara
Music
As they create something beautiful Kitikiti a song inspired by the sun of the Morocco Sahara desert.
Our future is now, even if we do not speak the same language and do not have the same ethnicity, but as Africans we support each other in the issues of the future of our country. We are ready to stand by each other regardless of the circumstances. This is our current future.
Electrocut
Painting
En un mundo tecnológico lo más desechable es el hombre.
In a technological world the most disposable element is man.
Visitando a Roraima (Visiting Roraima)
Creative Technology
K O L T B A C H FOL . VISITANDO RORAIMA RONALD QUIROZ COLABORACIÓN CON KOLTBACH (ARTISTA ELECTRO) . VENEZUELAN RHAPSODY . "UNA CANCIÓN PARA LO IMPERFECTO RORAIMA" . EL MONTE RORAIMA (O TEPUY RORAIMA, COMO SE LE CONOCE LOCALMENTE) SE ENCUENTRA AL SURESTE DEL PARQUE NACIONAL CANAIMA DE VENEZUELA. ESTA FORMACIÓN ROCOSA ES LA MÁS GRANDE EN SU TIPO EN TODO AMÉRICA DEL SUR, Y FORMA PARTE DE LA CADENA MONTAÑOSA DEL PAKARAIMA. DESDE HACE MÁS DE 5 SIGLOS, HA INTRIGADO A HISTORIADORES, GEÓLOGOS Y DEMÁS CIENTÍFICOS POR SER UNA MONTAÑA SIN PUNTA. . (COLLAGE / VIDEOART) . MATERIAL AUDIOVISUAL SERIE TIMEUP. 2021
K O L T B A C H Folio . VISITING RORAIMA RONALD QUIROZ COLLABORATION WITH KOLTBACH (ELECTRO ARTIST) . VENEZUELAN RHAPSODY . "A SONG FOR THE IMPERFECT RORAIMA" . MOUNT RORAIMA (OR TEPUY RORAIMA, AS IT IS LOCALLY KNOWN) IS LOCATED TO THE SOUTHEAST OF THE CANAIMA NATIONAL PARK OF VENEZUELA. THIS ROCK FORMATION IS THE LARGEST OF ITS KIND IN ALL SOUTH AMERICA, AND IS PART OF THE PAKARAIMA MOUNTAIN RANGE. FOR MORE THAN 5 CENTURIES, IT HAS INTRUDED HISTORIANS, GEOLOGISTS AND OTHER SCIENTISTS FOR BEING A MOUNTAIN WITHOUT POINT. . Transition, that is what I relate it to my job: from cash to crypto, how a brush becomes a keyboard. . (COLLAGE / VIDEOART) . AUDIOVISUAL MATERIAL TIMEUP SERIES. 2021
Cartografía del río / recuperando dignidad
(River Mapping / Recovering Dignity)
Other
Trabajadores cartoneros organizados en la cooperativa recuperando dignidad debaten en torno a la transformación y la perdida de trabajo formal como fue conocido en el siglo XX
Cardboard workers organize as a cooperative recovering dignity and debating the transformation of work and the loss of formal work as it was known in the 20th century.
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?
Clinton Mena
Lagos, Nigeria
Brian Madigan
Bath, United Kingdom
Kapilthev
Batticaloa, Sri Lanka
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
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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
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A Sculptor Presents
A Theater Impresario Presents
A Cartoonist Presents
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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.
