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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.
Is This Quiet?
Film
Made of found footage, excerpts of definitions of "quiet," and generated audio, this experimental film explores what it means to be truly disconnected from the non-natural world: is it possible, or are we always taking part in it? Even as we attempt to focus on the presence of silence, we are listening to someone tell us what it means to experience it. Can we find our own meanings outside of those presented to us?
Generation Loss
Film
This found footage film, made mostly of footage of subcultures and club cultures as they progress from organic to commodified, reflects ideas of repurposing and anti-capitalist work in both its physical form and its inspirations. (Found footage is an excellent tool of media re-use for people looking to make art. It questions both ideas of ownership and access.) In "Generation Loss," I explore the duality of physical and cultural media as it ages. We snap from visually deteriorating footage to increasingly commercialized versions of life and style. I ask: How does this reflect the idea of capitalism's conforming of individuality?
I Love Sushi
Graphic
el mundo comiéndose al mundo, con total normalidad, saboreando y disfrutando el plato. Un retrato irónico del ser humano
The world eating the world with total normality, savoring and enjoying the dish. An ironic portrait of the human being.
Planet’s Harvest
Painting
Andean people in South America wanna walk with pride in the world, not fear.
I Found My Mother on Sunset Boulevard
Photography
In search for my maternal comfort, I sought out the comforts of the street. Its shadows and cries calling to the inner demons of us all. While there, I found my Mother's spirit on the sidewalk, sitting there like Lois Lane. A Lois Lane who was waiting for her Superman to come and recuse her, to lift her up and take her to his Beverly Hills Mansion, where he would throw her in the shower, making her clean in both body and soul. But until that day comes, she waits, and waits, and waits.
Blood on The Streets of Capitalism
Painting
This piece is very personal to me, as I began painting it when I was a teenager seventeen years earlier, and it was one of the first pieces that I began as an artist. I only recently completed it in 2016 during my time recuperating from a traumatic brain injury. It is a painting of my home city, Stamford Connecticut, specifically the financial district. It's portrayed to show blood running through the streets, based on the lives lost to capitalism.
Adarim 1997
Performance Art
This work evokes a cartographic journey from what was "Abanicos pub” to the “Casa Aparte” residence. On June 22, 1997, about 63 people were arrested in the bar, detained on the basis of Art. 516 of the criminal code that typified homosexuality as a crime punishable by four to eight years in prison.
The action aims to be an act of liberation with the intention of interconnecting the past with the present and cartographically draw a map with what happened. Description: Performative action that pretends to be a liberation rite with intent to connect the past with the present.
Los rostros en tiempos de pandemia: barbijos y lazos sociales
(Faces in the Time of Pandemic: Chinstraps and Social Ties)
Other
Surge durante el periodo de aislamiento preventivo, la idea de pensar el encierro como una ruptura en las interrelaciones entre humanos.
Un desconocimiento del propio cuerpo causado por los barbijos, las pantallas y los lazos sociales.
It arises during the period of preventive isolation, the idea of thinking the lockdown as a break in the interrelationships between humans.
A lack of knowledge of one's own body caused by chinstraps, screens and social ties.
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?
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.
