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XTANT is now preparing for its seventh edition. And, its while it has grown tremendously over the years, the road before it is still long. As the yearly process behind the event’s ground floor becomes second nature, and the workshops and leadership program grow and morph in scale, we can focus on not just keeping our community going. But growing it. Conjoining artists of different disciplines, letting them influence and impact each other; most importantly, curating a space where people (visitors, consumers, whatever you’d call them) are exposed to works and practices they’d have otherwise never sought out. The health of an artistic field lives or dies by its capacity to bring in a constant influx of new people. Their ideas, perspectives, capacity for work; they pull others in, innovate, and bring that art to others in their orbit. It can sound naive to believe that you can build a model for fashion that people would voluntarily choose over our current one. The crushing feeling that the industry is too large, too effective at producing tons and producing cheap, for any alternative to be viable. Basically, there is no precedent. … (There is. That was a framing device.)
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