On Analog Art, Austin Music And Third Spaces: Future Front Takes Over TOMO Mags for Women’s History Month
Every year during SXSW, Future Front hosts artists, activists and musicians across the U.S. for International Women's Day and Women's History Month.
This year, we celebrated with a day of slow media in one of Austin’s newest third spaces, concept store and magazine shop TOMO mags. Over an all-day lineup of DJs and a hands-on block-printing workshop, we held candid conversations with Austin-local artists and musicians on their analog practices, vital third spaces and Texas history icons.
Thank you to DJ BAD APPLE,ORYA,JP, Suxxy Puxxy, RIOBAMBA, Hierba MalitaMegz Kelli,Thuỵ Trần, Beth Schindler and Jazz Mills.
As we celebrate ten years of Future Front, we’ll keep exploring analog art-making and community-building practices all year long. Look out for future pop-ups at creative spaces like TOMO mags who have collaborated within our program over the last decade, too.
“Community-building can happen everywhere, all the time, in the formal and informal spaces that we gather together. It’s an invitation to keep showing up joyfully, creatively, and fiercely with and for each other.”
“In this day and age of community becoming a commercialized, marketable buzzword, try to enact small acts within your own pre-existing social circle. Offer a friend who doesn’t have a car to drive them to work. Share your homemade soup from your culture that your coworker hasn’t tried yet. Ask your neighbor to borrow a hand mixer instead of buying a new one that you might only use a few times.”
“In the midst of our creative work, where so much of it happens in a vacuum, it’s refreshing to be reminded that one of the most basic, accessible analog experiences we can always return to is human connection – being able to connect with your community to collaborate, to check in, to just be and share space.”
ENJOY THE VISUAL RECAP.
All photos by Kate Nuelle
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