Good Trouble, womxn Leaders & Artist Visionaries. Powered by the What Art Can Do foundation

 

We bring you Good Trouble. We are women leaders. We support artists. We form a worldwide platform for ART. Building communities, leaping into the unknown, disrupting the public space through ART. Good Trouble presents interventions in public spaces for public audiences. Presenting open ideas and different viewpoints, challenging the status quo, offering alternatives, championing independent thinking, bringing back a sense of community, abundance and joy. 

 

Let’s face it: our societies are increasingly getting stuck in patriarchal, exploitative, colonial, militarist, populist, misogynist, autocratic tendencies. In a climate catastrophe. Today, ART is almost by definition resistance. At the same time, good art transcends all this. Because we believe artists are visionaries. At a time when Covid, political upheaval and AI have significantly impacted our lives worldwide, we need artist visionaries to shed light on our human identity. To envisage a better future. To dismantle the fear that today’s society grips all of us in. 

 

The What Art Can Do foundation is about to establish Good Trouble, an international art platform with different hubs led by women. Now is the moment for women leaders (and their allies) to connect globally and shed light on the situation we live in. Female leaders are holistic thinkers and active listeners, naturally connected with others, able to collaborate with different parties, implementing great ideas in their decision-making. They make careful long-term choices, caring about the wellbeing of the people they work with. 

 

GOOD TROUBLE will ask artists and sponsors: what does the world need now? How can you – as a renowned artist, as an up-and-coming artist, or as an artist group – create an intervention in the public space? 

The interventions that will come out of this will have an inescapable quality. Like Lauren Bon’s In the River, transforming the Los Angeles river, linking art to urban environmental activism; like Suzanne Lacy’s Taking back the night, a mass public performance protesting violence against women; like Grayson Perry using tapestries and his cross-dressing persona to address identity, class and gender with humor and provocation; like the Matriarch Movement, led by indigenous women, using storytelling, wellness, and art to reclaim narratives and resist colonial violence. And we have so many more inspiring examples we would love to share. 

 

Our ambitions are worldwide. We have a great track record in presenting successful ART events. We have a great network of artists and art leaders, all over the world. The first Good Trouble interventions will take place in one or two public spaces, beginning in Amsterdam. Our public events will be filmed and shared widely, serving as a launching pad for the next location and the next, gradually building an expanding network of interconnected hubs. We plan to establish such hubs (with contacts already in place) in Berlin, London, Paris, Rome, New York, Atlanta, Bogota, Mexico City, and Seoul, where local teams will independently organize artist residencies, salons, art labs, interventions and events. 

 

Now, what is this going to look like? Who is going to do what, when and where, exactly? Well, we are venturing into the unknown. And that is why we need our sponsors, crowdfunders, investors and friends to trust us, and leap into the unknown with us. Witness it become art. We believe in creativity and art. We believe in womxn leaders and artist visionaries. Let’s challenge the current system by public interventions and create the new future! Join us and support Good Trouble.