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!

@documentations



  • Opinion
    On the question of anonymity

    Anonymity is a strategy used by many authors to express themselves freely on certain issues deemed subversive by the authorities or a given circle (denunciation of abuses of power, situations of violence emanating from institutions and dominant people, hate speech, compromising relationships, etc.). Anonymity is used to guarantee freedom of speech and minimise the risk On the question of anonymity


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  • Brèves
    [ENSAPC] Students want to choose their next director

    Great initiative by art students at ENSAPC ! 👏👏👏Basically they are asking to be part of the decision process to choose their next director. And they are so right !!Repost ! Help them ! IT WOULD SEEM THAT NO ONE THOUGHT IT WAS IMPORTANT TO PROVIDE US, THE STUDENTS, WITH THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION: Since Monday [ENSAPC] Students want to choose their next director


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  • Lettres
    Silence is Violence

    Two weeks ago, Temi Odumosu, a Sweden-based academic posed the question: Do we have the courage to address Black Lives Matter and to confront the prevalence of racism in Nordic art life? [1] The pronounced silence from Sweden’s art institutions would seem to answer with a resounding “no.” What is this institutional quietness? Do these institutions, art Silence is Violence


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  • Critiques
    [YELLOW VESTS] Culture agents are calling for indolence.

    ARTISTES, CITOYEN.NES PARMI LES CITOYEN.NES  A tribune on January 11, 2019 entitled “ARTISTS, CITIZENS AMONG CITIZENS” states the following question of engagement and its modes of action in institutional culture. @zizia-cyke documentation contributor returns on this call, which reveals the scale of the gap between agents of the official culture heavily challenged by the creativity of the [YELLOW VESTS] Culture agents are calling for indolence.


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