The Amplification Project: Digital Archive for Forced Migration, Contemporary Art, and Action 8 Favorite 

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Aug 1 2020

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The Amplification Project: Digital Archive for Forced Migration, Contemporary Art, and Action (https://theamplificationproject.org) is a crowdsourced community digital archive aiming to raise the visibility of art and cultural productions inspired, influenced, or affected by forced migration and refugeehood. Founded by an international group of artists, curators, activists, and an archivist with activist and interventionist aims, The Amplification Project provides artists and cultural producers worldwide a space and platform to preserve and disseminate their work, as well as a portal for anyone to engage with their creations

Photo: Camp Roja, Ventimiglia, Italy, 2020 by Vukašin Nedeljković/www.fortresseu.com

Posted by Kathy on Sep 28 2020

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How does this project help?

Activates (people)Energizes and organizes people into action. Can include emotion work
Amplifies (issue or campaign)Brings public and political attention to an issue or campaign.  Can include prefigurative action, making the invisible visible.
Strengthens (community)Strengthens, builds and celebrates community through ritual and/or symbol.
Shifts (culture)Shifts the cultural landscape in order to imagine and enable change.

Timeframe For change

This project seems to be part of a campaign with a clear long-term goal. Long-term goals tend to be things like: end racism; end homophobia; make the sun stand still in the sky. A campaign with a long-term goal also needs to have some kind of theory of change.