// MKUIR

MANIFESTO KUIR

We firmly believe in art as a political tool. Our projects are focused on queer arts and the sharing of spaces and resources to promote projects made with honesty, guts, craft, research, risk and intersectional awareness.

We dedicate ourselves to an unopologetic artform that does not want to be assimilated or seen as a by-product of hegemonic culture, and which conquers its space by exposing the open wound left all over the world by colonialism and slavery, capitalism and patriarchy, the structural pillars of inequality and necropolitics.

We collectively create safe spaces for our communities and, at the same time, dangerous propositions for those who want to deprive us of rights and muzzle our knowledge and culture production. We promote spaces to exhibit art that is discriminated against in traditional and mainstream spaces, art that has the affirmation of identity and the struggle for freedom at its core.

We want to spread well-being and reflection.

We believe that our projects are a vehicle for raising awareness and reflection, for opening hearts and minds.

We want to promote urgent cultural changes in our contexts through sensitivity, criticism, confrontation and the exposure of the dominant structures of power, in order to definitely participate actively in its dismantling process.

We recognize the history of activism and the contribution of those who came before us, especially the activism of black, indigenous, trans and peripheral people. In this sense, we commit to make black and indigenous voices central, and to promote gender and class perspective in all our actions.

We are attentive and vigilant about misoginy, homo lesbo and transphobia, capacitism and ageism, and we know that to dismantle these prejudices it takes a lot of listening and self-criticism.

We are together to activate our utopia, free the collective imagination, learn, exchange and actively participate, with a clear intention, in the change we want to see in the world.