Since 2018, when our collective came into existence in Belgium, we have been invited to participate in numerous events and exchanges with artists, institutions, and communities. Over these encounters, we generated disparate questions and addressed issues on participation, inclusion, collectivity, solidarity, integration, place-making, cultural activism & politics, and other aspects of artistic and cultural production.
After harvesting and reflecting on the experience of participating and showing up to various environments and contexts, the urgency arose to design a ‘Paact’ that would offer a set of mutually agreed conditions from which we could work -within and beyond- the collective. Our intention is to ensure that we could enter a safer space, one that offers clear outlines of expectations, and guidelines on how a collective of precarious people might engage with art making and collaborating with institutions and individuals.
Questions of equality and proper recognition of the collective and its members needed to be addressed within the “PAACT”. We hope that this document can become a tool for further dialogue and that it can be adoptable and adaptable for other collectives, groups or individuals, as we present it here as a prototype for formulating agreements along the same lines.
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