INDEP member Raphael Arar had some of his artwork exhibited in two group exhibitions, one curated by Solarpunk Surfclub at the University of Kentucky’s Bolivar Gallery and another curated by the Portland, Oregon chapter of Jobs With Justice at One Grand Gallery in Portland, Oregon. The works featured include:
- Dual Power, an interactive installation that explores the tension between competing ideologies and power structures. The piece explores the thematic tensions inherent in models for democratic economic planning, including the false binaries that can emerge from questions of centralization and decentralization, the individual and the collective.
- Keynesian Clock, which alludes to Keynes’ (false) prediction that the work week would span merely 15 hours due to technological advancements. By scaling the motor speed of an industrial clock to reflect this number of hours, the piece provokes us to consider what work might look like in a future political economy facilitated through democratic economic planning.
- Rosa’s Plinko, a tongue-in-cheek way of referencing Rosa Luxemburg’s adage, “As things stand today capitalist civilization cannot continue; we must either move forward into socialism or fall back into barbarism.”