Livable Futures Community Archive Site Taken in October 2017
Q&A
LF: What makes more livable futures for you?
LROD: For me, a pursuit to re-imagine justice, resiliency, and love against the current oppressive or destructive ways of living would be a start in making the future livable. I believe it is crucial to create a realm of care, ethics, and compassion to work towards balance in our overly consumptive world. These liberal acts help to reconstruct/heal dilapidated structures in our social, economic, and industrial ways of living but prioritize these acts within the environmental sphere. As an artist, I think creating performative/experiential environments in a community of co-creation kickstarts the imagination needed to unlock the potential of our future.
A livable future responds to crisis, injustice, and inequality.
A livable future is continuously adapting.
A livable future makes and holds space for all.
A livable future is a possibility manifested through imagination.
A livable future redefines freedom.
A livable future is not always polite.
A livable future is transparent.
A livable future thrives in equity.
A livable future redefines love and care.
LF: What are you reading, viewing, listening to right now?
LROD:
Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds (2017), Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good (2019) by adrienne maree brown
Chicano and Chicana Art: A Critical Anthology by Jennifer A. González
Black Brown & Beige: Surrealist Writings from Africa and the Diaspora (2009) edited by Franklin Rosemont and Robin D.G. Kelley
Dawn (2012) by Octavia E. Butler
On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal by Naomi Klein
The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
Borderwall as Architecture: A Manifesto for the U.S.-Mexico Boundary (Ahmanson-Murphy Fine Arts Imprint) by Ronald Rael
LF: What practices are sustaining you?
LROD:
Sustaining my practice is daydreaming, hyper-creativity in co-creative environments, performance as protest, and ritualized self-care.
Sun’s kiss on my skin
The desert
Aesthetics in environmental design
Home
Community
Daily improvisation
Mi Familia
Napping
Sustento
Artmaking in all its capacities
Deep conversations
Immersing into books/movies/shows
Truth
The moment when I am told something is impossible
©LROD