In this episode of Conversations with Aliens of Extraordinary Ability, Rodrigo Ghattas maps out together with international activist, researcher, and Chinese-born artist Tings Chak (Tricontinental) the emerging epicenters for the born of new transnational solidarity movements. Join us as we explore how art and culture are central to the creation of anti-crisis infrastructures.

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This episode is the final in a 3-part series on Practices of Solidarity. Before listening to this one, you may want to catch up with Practices of Solidarity - Ep.2: Mutual support groups. With the help of international activist and artist Tings Chak 翟庭君, we map out some emerging epicenters for the born of new transnational solidarity movements. Join us as we explore how art and culture are central to the creation of anti-crisis infrastructures, both in local communities yet internationalists in nature — towards a socialist future. We will focus on recent transnational solidarity projects in the arts and how they understand solidarity as a national project. The lack of long-standing global political, economic, cultural, and health solidarity projects is an expression of a much wider historical and political movement of peoples' struggle for decolonization and liberation, to which the current sanitary emergency was recently added. Chak leads the Art Department of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, working on the legacy of OSPAAAL (the organization of solidarity for the peoples of Asia, Africa, and Latin America).