Radical interdependence and multi-temporal space holding as pathways towards social justice.

Trauma, including that caused by climate change and displacement, is a fracturing of time and space.

Time and space overlap; maps of home are imprinted on often hostile lands and traumas are reenacted as the violence of alienation is perpetuated.

Anna Tsing speaks about this disorientation and layering of multi-generational trauma and loss as 'haunted landscapes' (Tsing, 2017). The Otolith Collective talks about the 'poethics of thickening time hrononpolically'.

As we navigate haunted landscapes and innumerable traumas, I propose that it is the role of the curator is to thicken time; to create a space that operates in a wider, deeper sense of time that is willing to hold contested pasts, disrupted and displaced presents and co-imagined speculative futures. From this place can come the framework for social justice in the face of the profoundly unjust.

The work of reclamation is being done across the once colonised world from the Red Nation in Albuquerque, New Mexico to the Rojava Film Commune in the autonomous region of Syria. What can we learn from these initiatives grown from a resistance to displacement and erasure?

Still more collectives have coalesced within the displacement of mass migration to create systems of care, mutual aid, and redress. How can learning from these groups inform interconnected collective gathering and time thickening?