#countercapitalism

[anarkittyy]

Submissions Open !

[IMAGE DESCRIPTION: White and orange background with one right hand placing a lit match on the words fetch the bolt-cutters spelt with matches and nails. The poster also contains information for an open call, it says:

❌“not trying to get by, trying to get free” ❌

queers, punks, pansies, anarchist, gutter bois, and lurkers of the underground,

fetch the bolt cutters is an art /exhibition project gathering critical seeds against the big fucken dirty C, capitalism!

we want your grimy, goth ☠️, & gritty; your twee🌈  fantasy of the world you dreamed of,

the acidic and the anarchic, the psychedelic visions, your terror*, the surreal and nightmarish, the grungiest, the too cool for capital;

queer miniature objects, kitsch totems. anything that speaks for everything capitalism is not; all you know your boss will spit on.

* terror🕳:  it is with the cold viciousness capitalism continues to strike we turn to the page, the canvass! these are the small seeds of liberation

fetch the bolt cutters will consider printed matter: zines, stickers, posters, collage, comic strips, illustrations, poems....really all the weird stuff.

please send an image or pdf of your materials to [[email protected]]  // email subject— “fuck capitalism” 🙂

deadline: December 15, 2020.

the project strategically avoids platforms like facebook and instagram, do share with your network but please keep it off piggy 🐷spaces.

❌all power to the 99% ❌]

[anarkittyy]

PROJECT LAUNCH 👉🏾👈🏾

Fetch the Bolt Cutters (a counter-capitalist project (dreamwork)

Artists and Collectives: Institute of Queer Ecology, Spiral Theory Test Kitchen, Bare Minimum Collective, Internet Teapot,Vicious Collective, and more at ftbc.space

Participatory Installation Opens: Tuesday, April 14th 2021

Digital DreamSeeds I: Monday April 19th 2021

Digital DreamSeeds II: Wednesday, April 28th 2021

Digital DreamSeeds III: Wednesday, May 12th 2021

Installation at Lower East Side, NYC & Online at: ftbc.space

As a more advanced form of late capitalism, hypercapitalism continues to reveal its reliance on connected forms of oppression and mythmaking to sustain its excessive extraction and escalating theft. Liberation, however, beckons at the other end of hypercapitalism’s sweeping dominion through the committed dreamwork(s) of envisioning equitable futures. Fetch the Bolt Cutters stands in this constellation with a series of participatory installations and a discursive publication. The project literally maps ideas, instructional artworks, and materials that counter various forms of oppression, inspire collective dreamworks, and articulate immediate alternatives to life under hypercapitalism.

Resistance arises in several ways, as Diane Di Prima prescribes. The artists and collectives in FTBC examine and respond to absurd life under a capitalist wheeling that won’t just grind to a stop. In a collection of instructions authored to regain a sense of self from hypercapitalist values, the Bare Minimum Collective offers laziness as an alternative way of self-defining our own value and time. The relational body is located as a site for embodied freedom in Reflection Score from Lee Pivnik for the Institute of Queer Ecology. Half-part choreography, altogether a being with Nature, the piece leads a performance of kinship, moving beyond the time and space of commerce. Spiral Theory Test Kitchen provides a psychosexual recipe for wining and dining in queer poetics. Through this culinary performance, a gestural route opens to access limitless imagination, abundance and a remolecularization of desire. In the zines from the Vicious Collective, Internet Teapot, Post-Romantic Queer Wave, and many more, the visual materiality of critique and dreamwork reveals possibilities.

What if getting by can move with getting free, in response to Mereba’s negation in “Get Free”? As a counter-capitalist project, Fetch the Bolt Cutters is interested in collective dreaming for post-capitalist lives, but first illuminates dreamwork’s elements of negation, desire, and agency as agents for collective liberation. In FTBC, discursive essays look at hypercapitalism’s ills through racial and psychosocial lenses. Its gathered items are spread across the streets of the Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Their dreamwork awaits, ready to prime you. Walk, read, sing and fetch your bolt cutters!