This Is Us

A manifesto of a collective. // 2024

1 The collective sees itself as a lived, everyday practice of pulsating co-existance that is able to generate new patterns of action.

2 The collective creates an experimental space for radical care and explores the political potential of friend- and kinships.

3 The collective overcomes individualization towards condividualization by liquefying and collectivizing the boundaries of creative, artistic processes.

4 The collective opposes capitalist and patriarchal structures of oppression and develops the necessary strength to break up exploitative systems.

5 The collective builds confronting, but encouraging interventions to reflect on the relationship between the individual and the collective struggle.

6 The collective considers collective feeling as an act of empowerment and invites to unite in pain instead of going into individualized withdrawal.

7 The collective follows a logic of rhizomatic and tentacular thinking in order to generate decentralized and pluralistic flows of knowledge.

8 The collective serves as a transparent space that enables conscious self-awareness and experimentation.

9 The collective demands critical self-reflection that draws practical solidarity from one's whiteness and understands allyship as an continous, active process.

10 The collective regards its collaborative work as a transformative tool that serves towards an intersectional, collective liberation.