Art as a weapon

We recognise how narratives are vehicles of power, as they shape who is seen as Human, who is believed, and whose suffering matters

- Amok Bul-Terre

South Africa's diplomatic posture does not have its feet firmly on the ground as it claims to be. While our government presents itself as a steward of noble order, its hidden actions, often obscured from public unveiling, continue to have policies in place that fuel global harm and ecological collapse.

In the wake of war and fragmentations, it's no surprise that we see their heightened dance between playing “peace keeper” on the global stage, alongside the disguised maintenance in the haunting of empirical systems with claws deeply entrenched within the stern mandate of genocidal forces.

We refuse the pull toward despair that these unjust times try to drag us into. It is civil society movements, cultural workers and artists who seek to create bridges of care, conversation, and community in confronting imperialist forces who are adamant to impose illusions of separation amongst us. We choose to make a soft space for hard questions where we can metabolise these experiences on the frontlines of oppression rather than become complicit in these cistems of extraction.

We - CAMP, the Community Arts Mobilisation Project, understand what it means to embody performance, holding the complexity of both subject and object in the articulation of violence. We are artists and trouble makers, Cultural Workers. We're black, queer, feminist, gendered and young individuals working to narrative repair from a position of often being the most vulnerable.

We call conspirators to gather, to set the field, and to hold the line. We come to build and be built by community, to connect, and to share strategies of resistance and well-informed reason; held in the evolving motion of dialogue that is directed toward collective care.