We acknowledge that we operate in a constructed reality with constructed identities. We work to make plain, and offer liberation, from such realities.
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We are a holistic gang that makes no distinction between life and art. -
We incorporate differing forms of knowing and discourse including sensorial somatic knowledges.
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We are not essentialists, and reject binary definitions as divisive constructs.
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We reject hierarchies of knowledge. It’s all process. -
We challenge inertia in all its forms - we engage, maintaining a ‘restive wakefulness’. -
We are not in control. We embrace mistakes, accidents, awkwardness and risk; failure is a revolutionary strategy -
We reject boundaries between art forms, countries and gender demarkation. -
We acknowledge the emotional labour of care and work to highlight its invisibility.
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We don’t mind getting lost, and pin nothing down as final or finished, accepting mutation and fluidity. -
We move about but wherever we are we engage locally. -
We respect the agency of all beings, rejecting the supremacy of the human over other animals and our environment. -
We are bolshy and bold in all that we do.
With thanks to the Cyborg Manifesto, the Xenofeminist Manifesto, the Futurist Manifesto and the writing of Jack Halberstam.