GREETINGS


To all those who wish to strengthen their vertical and authoritarian power they exercise only to serve socially and culturally conservative and reactionary interests, to all spokespersons trying to discredit dissident voices: 
Do not forget you are dealing with a crowd of ultra-precarized art agents who have nothing more to lose and who, moreover, have no hope on the art world you are building for yourselves.

Let’s vow to see this art world perish for good. In order to accelerate its collapse, we encourage everyone to take a stand against everything that allows them to persist. Against all these useless exhibitions that continue to narrate the aesthetic experience of the world by the conservative Western bourgeoisie. Let’s truly confront the neo-colonialism, the structural racism and sexism of contemporary art. Let’s remove all those in power who continue to ratify this structural violence. Let’s abolish the free work and precariousness of art agents. Let’s fight the “artwashing” and the institutionalization of struggles for emancipation without concrete commitments in this regard.

Let’s take the field with other ideas and foster political cleavages in cultural fields. Let’s push for more horizontality in the artistic fields. Let’s advocate for effective parity and diversity in the arts sector, as well as for the establishment of a basic income for art workers. Let’s encourage an unconditional return of works of art to the former colonies of Western countries. Let’s examine the ecological cost of the world of culture. Let’s condemn corporate philanthropist for embezzling public money.

In order to achieve these goals, let’s be offensive! Let’s hinder the power structures of art, let’s condemn their shameful and obsolete practices! Let’s reduce the violence they are inflicting on us by opposing them the practice of self-defence! Let’s boycott, attack these places that are only building cultural representations from a conservative perspective!

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  • Lettres
    Endgame – La Permanence –

    Today, we publish an open-letter written by members of La Permanence, an activist group that exposes abuses of power and cases of harassment and discrimination in dance and other related fields. In this letter, La Permanence supports dancer Karline Marion’s struggle against the discrimination she endured while working at the ballet of the Lyon Opera, Endgame – La Permanence –


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  • Critiques
    Komunuma, artwashing in the Parisian suburbs: The Coloniality of Cultural Democratisation

    While the Covid-19 crisis has exposed the major structural inequalities facing Seine-Saint-Denis, the only long-term strategy for the territory seems still to be ever more real estate speculation, ever more marginalisation and greater precariousness. A few months ago in Romainville, the property developer Fiminco inaugurated Komunuma, its latest artistic and real estate project. Based on Komunuma, artwashing in the Parisian suburbs: The Coloniality of Cultural Democratisation


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  • Brèves
    ELYSEE X FIAC

    Soo embarrassed to wake up this morning with all these pictures of French art world selfies with Emmanuel Macron at Élysée.  Please know that the art community is not comfortable with the current political trend in France. The right wing shift of so many agents from the art world is not representative of all of ELYSEE X FIAC


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  • Opinion
    GREETINGS

    To all those who wish to strengthen their vertical and authoritarian power they exercise only to serve socially and culturally conservative and reactionary interests, to all spokespersons trying to discredit dissident voices: Do not forget you are dealing with a crowd of ultra-precarized art agents who have nothing more to lose and who, moreover, have no GREETINGS


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