The Fearless Collective
FormationDecember 2012
TypeWomen's organization
FocusArt-Activism
Websitefearlesscollective.org///

Fearless Collective is an art collective. It uses participatory art practices to provide means to move from fear to love in public space. The collective uses visual campaigning, multimedia storytelling and large-scale public art projects to engage in participative storytelling with communities who have been misrepresented around the world; to make space for personal narratives to emerge, transform public space, and reclaim our imaginations from fear.[1]

Formation

Fearless was started in 2012 by Bangalore based visual artist Shilo Shiv Suleman in response to the media fear-mongering and patriarchal discourse on sexual violence and women’s right to access public space in India.[2][3] Since then, the collective has grown into a global, core team of women artists and activists who use affirmation and art as acts of protest by responding to moments of crisis through creating beauty in public space. To date, Fearless Collective has worked with hundreds of community members in 16 countries[4] to co-create 49 large scale public art installations largely in the Global South.[5][6] Fearless Collective is financially sponsored by U.S. 501(c)(3) Social Good Fund. Nida Mushtaq, sexual rights activist is part of collective from Pakistan, who drew murals of transgender community.[7][8][9][10]

With the aim of promoting the work of Kashmiri artisans and recognizing the substantial contributions of women in the artistic realm, Zoya Khan, an architect-artist who leads the international organization Fearless Collective, has revealed a groundbreaking mural in Srinagar.[11]

References

  1. ↑ Jan 29, Joeanna Rebello / TNN / Updated. "Artists reclaim city streets for women | Chennai News - Times of India". The Times of India.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  2. ↑ Puri, Nikita (6 February 2016). "Taking on social issues with brave art". Business Standard India.
  3. ↑ "The Fearless Collective: Fighting Oppression with Beauty". Groundviews. 17 May 2023. Retrieved 5 September 2023.
  4. ↑ "Fearless Collective Takes to the Streets". www.platform-mag.com.
  5. ↑ "The Artful Result Of Creativity And Fearlessness". Kashmir Observer. 3 August 2023. Retrieved 5 September 2023.
  6. ↑ "Fearless Collective's Mural Unveiled in Slave Island - Roar Media". roar.media. 18 May 2023. Retrieved 5 September 2023.
  7. ↑ Reporter, A. (10 January 2016). "Artists, activists join evicted I-11 residents calling for resettlement". DAWN.COM.
  8. ↑ Masood, Tooba (2 December 2015). "The 'fearless collective' in Lyari". DAWN.COM.
  9. ↑ "This Indian Artist Visited Pakistan To Draw Graffiti On Fearlessness And It's Beautiful". IndiaTimes. 15 December 2015.
  10. ↑ "How artist Shilo Shiv Suleman's Fearless Collective broke barriers in Pakistan". Firstpost. 10 January 2016. Retrieved 5 September 2023.
  11. ↑ "J-K: Zoya Khan's murals amplify voices of Kashmir's unsung heroines". ANI News. 4 August 2023. Retrieved 5 September 2023.
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