What became apparent about the VisionMix associate artists’ projects is that their engagement and sense of accountability in their productions is palpably felt. We draw from certain shared political affinities, such as the critique of normative representations of gender and sexuality, queer and feminist, critiques of ecological and environmental issues, an anti-colonial resistance and/or a sense of scepticism about the privileged currencies of art and its commodification. Our projects, whilst being socially and historically responsive, also strive towards the poetic; a quality sometimes found through an attitude of disobedience, subversion or at other times in an irrational pursuit of the imaginary. VisionMix’s artists are clearly focused on the contested spaces in the social world, but resist the temptation to isolate the lives we live from the art of film and photographic storytelling. 

‘Politics’ constructs ways of forging truths that are centred on the collective, attempting to bring about (notions of) equality or to transform models of governance or resistance towards specific ideological targets. But for artists, collaborations are often about very small-scale yet significant partnerships that are able to embrace difference and make it creative. Through art (and film), we experience the world envisioned and lived from another’s perspective, acknowledging perceptions that are dynamic and perpetually unfolding.