No Funding, But...
We are often asked whether we have a budget for our work or if we pay contributors. Here are some points we consider important to share with our community:
1. As funding for the arts continues to shrink, we think it’s important to remember that most activism and critical movement were always done outside of institutional backup, and most likely they will continue to do so. Our activism is not based on funding and we know this approach is not sustainable in the long run. Sustainability here does not lie in external capital but in community strength, in care, and in the refusal to be bought.
2. We strongly support artists being paid for their labor (100% !!!), but this project is built on different grounds. We want to distinguish between those projects that depends on institutional or state funding, and those that grows freely-without deadlines, imposed topics, or compromises. That is why our collaborators participate by donating their work, as part of a collective effort rather than a transaction.
3. We imagine A4CT as a community-driven space for risk-taking, critical thought, and collective creativity. We are not here to fit into existing ideas of art and society, but to question them, explore alternatives, and imagine non-hierarchical ways of being together. This project is grassroots and uncompromising commited to build a safe-space on the bases that survival is collective.