{"product_id":"workshop-symbols-the-grammar-of-resistance-sun-12-jul-method-kala-ghoda","title":"Workshop | Symbols \u0026 The Grammar of Resistance | Sun, 12 Jul | Method Kala Ghoda","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVenue:\u003c\/strong\u003e Method Kala Ghoda\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDate:\u003c\/strong\u003e Sunday, 12th July\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTime: \u003c\/strong\u003e5-8 PM \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSymbols \u0026amp; The Grammar Of Resistance - Workshop \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSymbols are not decoration, and they are not just ‘art’. They are one of the primary mechanisms through which power organises consent. They run the whole spectrum, from how we speak to each other to how governments and corporations use them to push warped versions of the truth. And the tradition of turning them back is long.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Situationists called it détournement: hijacking the language of the spectacle against itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eACT UP's SILENCE=DEATH, three words and an inverted pink triangle, turned grief into demand.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Black Arts Movement insisted aesthetics was politics, that every cultural choice was a political one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom Underground Resistance to Public Enemy to Wu-Tang Clan, symbols have stood for work and action.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe belief that participation matters is being worn down, and not by accident. We are told the future is open but are made, day after day, to feel it is closed. The resulting exhaustion is not the ordinary tiredness of doing too much. Rather, it is the manufactured kind that arrives when wanting a different world starts to feel naive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt tricks us by taking a problem built into the system and handing it back to you as a private failing. So, the overwhelmed stop showing up.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe work the other way. Over the session we build a small shared language, a set of symbols, a counter-grammar. It did not exist in the room before you arrived. It leaves with you.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCreativity here does no decorating. It is how we think our way out. The workshop opens with a diagnosis and closes with we actually build for ourselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Method Kala Ghoda","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42310761971767,"sku":"FR13","price":1000.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0083\/6730\/8855\/files\/1_2bb50d15-282a-40ea-b736-acc9a6b3c4fe.png?v=1783482514","url":"https:\/\/themethod.art\/products\/workshop-symbols-the-grammar-of-resistance-sun-12-jul-method-kala-ghoda","provider":"Method","version":"1.0","type":"link"}