An statement written on one of the exhibition boxes at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, as the start of a larger project about initiatives in arts and politics, and against the exclusionary dynamics in the art world that decides what art is and who can enter.
Chapter 1
Society needs artists to be revolutionary. Our arts are a powerful weapon that have the potential to transform reality. There is no art without political content, and creative intentions always carry a political imagination.
Our arts have an influence in the political discourse and can be a political discourse on its own. They are ways of communication in themselves and they allow to express and take action over social concerns.
Artists who do not consider in a critical way the capability of the capitalist matrix to reproduce itself through art, can be swallowed entirely by it and their aims stolen and re-purposed.
Art is inbuilt in a structure of institutional roles and practices and has historically played a role in colonial oppression and the oppression of women through the establishing of degrees of value and worth to different cultures and aesthetics.
We reclaim the power to act and to oppose.