As cultural workers, we must abolish exhausting and extractive open call culture! My collective have submitted application and we spend ~3 w-days = 4 ppl x 8h = 96h; there were 156 applications from collectives of min 3-4 ppl for 1 place, so roughly this open call costed 14976h = 1872 w-days = 267 w-weeks = 66 months = 5,6 years of unpaid work for 1 person! Can you imagine what can we do if we abolish this? How many villages and towns in Ukraine and Palestine can we rebuild with this time?
Aleksei Borisionok
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Had a thought at the concert of Gates of Londra yesterday – what if black metal / dungeon synth chainmails are simply variation of weighted blankets
⚒️ "Using a methodology they refer to as grafting – both as in working hard and as in fusing organic material – this year’s Matter of Art curators combined their curatorial research to assemble a biennale which considered how the experiences of peasant farmers and urban workers of the past are relevant now. <…> Who are the peasants? Who are the workers?" Jackson Mount on Matter of Art Biennale for Tank Magazine https://tank.tv/magazine/issue-101/features/prague
CrimethInc. Ex-WorkersToday, for the seventh time, a fixed electoral process will return the despot Aleksandr Lukashenko to power in Belarus. Last time he held an "election," in 2020, an uprising nearly toppled his government:
https://crimethinc.com/WhenWeRise
For now, it appears that Belarus will remain under his rule until Vladimir Putin loses control in the region. Belarus offers a cautionary tale about the consequences of the kind of autocracy that is taking hold around the world, including in the United States.
But according to the Belarusian anarchist project Pramen,
"On Sunday, Lukashenko will celebrate himself in the company of people he will never be able to trust. Looking around, he will drink to victory, knowing full well that this victory means absolutely nothing. The day after the elections, Belarusian society will continue to resist by organizing sabotage actions on critical infrastructure, supporting prisoners, fighting in workplaces and universities—our desire for freedom is stronger than any repression and the dreams of dictators and tyrants about huge empires and stable regimes. Sooner or later, our struggle will free us from the shackles of the dictator, showing the whole world how ordinary people without huge resources can determine their future independently of empires."
Spectatorship is a form of camaraderie and a form of betrayal