“The role of the artist is to make revolution irresistible.” – Toni Cade Barbara
Beneath the streets of London on February 22nd, an impressive array of artists and rebels came together to co-create in response to our unprecedented times. Unity, intersectionality and of course environmentalism — when I left Extinction Underground, these ideas really stuck with me. Those themes were channelled into an explosion of artistic expression at this take-over of VAULT Festival. The ‘interactive and immersive late-night playground’ (as the event organisers described it) used art to connect the thousands of attendants to the planet and one another.
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