Flock is a project under construction. The inspiration for Flock comes from an incredible bird cape made by Kerry at the Monday Art Group. Mashed Economies envisions a Flock of such bird referencing wearables that congregate in spaces to challenge the marginalization of our lives by systems of oppression.

Through Flock, Mashed Economies wants to identify and build connections with women (identified) and trans artists, their allies and the art groups that serve low income people in Toronto.

Mashed Economies’ desire is to develop a social practice artwork. Flock entails the formation of a web of solidarity among artists and art groups, engagement with materials and practices of making and dialogue around issues that impact people in their daily lives.

As the Flock thinks about obstacles and critiques from everyday life and beyond we translate  those issues into a politics. As we make our bird capes, we stew, we cackle and conjure public action. We work to raise consciousness of the importance of the art spaces in the city that serve women, which are under funded and under valued at this current time. How do we inhabit often unsafe public spaces and thereby transform them into places of resistance and solidarity?

With this project Mashed Economies will unsettle our economic relations under colonial/capitalist disciplines. We are continuing research into microeconomies of self organization, of alternative economic forms, and structures of social networks based on mutuality.