MAAT: Movement and Activist Archive of T-shirts 

Through interactive displays, participatory workshops, research and documentation of a decade of work: we will build the Movement and Activist Archive of T-shirts (MAAT).

This project builds on an ongoing body of work, which through everyday hand-printed t-shirts, using
graffiti-style stencils, has been a pedagogical tool by telling the story of historic civil society and human rights activists:  revolutionaries, artists, dissidents, organizers, and activists who stood for justice across Africa, South
Asia and parts of Latin America. 

The t-shirt is an artistic and conscientizing canvas and stencils prints, a low-cost, hand-made medium, have been used across contexts as graffiti and posters. These images encourage conversations and create spaces for more dialogue amongst youth by bringing these figures amidst them, representing what they stood for and what youth themselves could choose to stand for. 

We are Asanda and Aditi, a duo collaborating for close to a decade. Together their artivism builds strong connections and solidarity between global and local civil society, social movements and people power narratives and brings forth the values of collectivism and social justice.

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