LAND

Ongoing 2024

Politicised Artistic Commons

Ethics Infrastructure

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These are the three pillars of Intra-Dependant Land 2024 (working title), a research track made possible as the first awardee of the new Groningen Visual Arts Stipendium Land 2023 (for the working period of 2024).

The artistic activities are shaped as a set of practices rather than a project, in order to alleviate the outcome-oriented mindset of artistic work and to advocate for artistic labour as a durational, urgent practice within society.

Objectives, Phase 1:
Politicised Artistic Commons
Starting: September 2024

Set up a politicised artistic commons in the form of a coalition in Groningen. Use the material money of the individual stipendium to invest in co-selected common resources as an act of artist grant de-centralisation. Collectively invest in, and frame, the politicised layer of the group: commoning needed resources, such as legal advice, peer support, mental health services and knowledge sharing, form an essential foundation of the group members' ability to thrive as healthy, local actors. Alongside this, the group choses to activate its political agency, voice and willingness to learn and act, by means of co-education and co-engagement in actions that have broader political implications. This could entail setting up local petitions, keeping each other updated about the new Dutch coalition's developments and policies, holding institutes accountable to any unfair or unethical practices or stances, demonstrating public solidarity and action for marginalised and stigmatised groups and regions, challenging local or national politicians on unconstitutional rhetoric or policy plans, creating propositions of better frameworks for the culture sector, such as a basic income for artists plan, challenging institutes to not take neutral stances on local and global injustices, genocides and occupations (this list is not exhaustive).

Watch this space for updates about when and how the politicised artistic commons will be formed, how to join the group, and what types of activities it will both initiate and partake in.