A Fair New Idea?! #2: Working internationally – Sustainability in art practices
The selected candidates for our open call A Fair New Idea?! #2 on working internationally decided to form three groups, each focused on a specific sub-theme.
One of those groups consisted of:
- theater maker Benjamin Verdonck
- Kris Nelson of LIFT of the London International Festival of Theatre)
- various participants of the arts management company ART HAPPENS
- artist Castillo
They began discussions about sustainability in their practices. What do they understand that to be, how do they work towards achieving it, and how do they incorporate privileges, or the lack thereof, in their reasoning?
Eva Peeters wrote an essay about the various steps to this end that LIFT, ART HAPPENS and Benjamin Verdonck took during 2021 and 2022. Read her text below.
Castillo eventually decided to step out of the group, because he wanted to question the very idea of “sustainability” from his position of a queer arts and activism practitioner, and from a queer, anticapitalist, and colonialism-aware political standpoint. Following his experience of stepping out, he invited Lili PG and Marge to write on the question of How do we leave?.
