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Tarek Atoui. At-Tāriq
A Journey into the Rural Music Traditions of North Africa and the Arab World
Tarek Atoui. At-Tāriq | Public Program
Organismo | Art in Applied Critical Ecologies
Independent study program, Year One
Organismo | Public program
Independent study program, Year One
The Ecologies of Peace II
The Ecologies of Peace II - Winter Mediation program
Otras montañas las que andan sueltas bajo el agua
Exhibition at Ocean Space - Venice
Echoes of the Sanctuary
Webs of Water
An Online Activations Series
Becoming Ocean
TBA21–Academy’s Ocean Space Wins Flash Art Italia Award for Innovation and Sustainability
A first look at our 2025 exhibition program
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We Can't Breathe. Social Responsibility Project

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Law, legality, legitimacy, or legitimation– are historically constituted, forged and framed, ratified and amended. The law is not justice. It offers, at any moment, the lived possibility of intervention. It is a perfectible, self-revising ensemble of norms and precepts that distills the knowledges and flaws of generations. To make the law and its norms more just and more equal, today and in the future-present, we want to join people around the world who strive to make it less blind, less “color-blind,” to oppose misconduct and forms of violence that are passed on from generation to generation. It takes a lot of courage to intervene where roads are blocked, to act where there is paralysis, and to push against the forces allied in racism, misogyny, xenophobia. But: There is justice, which means the relentless possibility of justice to come. Justice calls “come” to us, thwarting the walls of the present from fencing us in the im/possible.
 
Staff, friends, and family of TBA21 and its organisational affiliates (Academy, Ocean Space, Ocean Archive) have supported the following organisations. They reflect our individual and collective commitment to furthering the Black, brown, and indigenous protest movement around the world. 
 
Acción Contra el Hambre
Afro Rainbow Austria (ARA)
Alligator Head Foundation
Ayuda en Acción
Black Trans Advocacy Coalition
Black Vision
Each One Teach One
Healing Foundation
Hemayat
Huni Kuin Community Fundraise
Keku Honey
NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
New Mindsets, New Media, New Leaders, and Narratives (N4)
Queer Base
Reclaim the Block
SOS Racismo
The Bail Project
The Black Curriculum
UK Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust
Voix Noire
Zivilcourage und Anti-Rassismus-Arbeit in Austria (ZARA)
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John Bock: Malträtierte Fregatte
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2007
Yasunao Tone
Raining, 2010
The Soul Expanding Ocean #2: Isabel Lewis O.C.E.A.N.I.C.A.
Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll
Te Moana - The Ocean
Monica Bonvicini
Structural Psychodrama #2, 2017
Shooting Back
TBA21, 2008
John Bock: Malträtierte Fregatte Notebooks (Special Edition)
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2008
Transitory Objects
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2009
Lisa Rave
Europium, 2014
Camille Henrot
I Say, 2017
Santiago Roose
Tierra ebria, 2017
Santiago Roose
Determinaciones soco territoriales: Colonia, 2017
Lopud Seminar – The Institution As An Agent Of Change
September 14–17, 2017 | Lopud Island, Croatia
Nicolás Paris
Meeting points or In search of the Euler line, 2013
ephemeropteræ 2017/#9 – Guillermo Faivovich and Nicolás Goldberg
Hylozoic / Desires
(Himali Singh Soin and David Soin Tappeser)
As Grand As What, 2021
Pierre Mukeba
(Alikuwa amekufa kwa uchawi.)(Pietà), 2022
Wael Shawky
Cabaret Crusades, The Horror Show File, 2010