Last few day to apply to our second #OpenCall on #Transfigurations Send us your texts, scripts, thoughts, poetry until 15.05.2025

OLYMPIC UPDATE: HOMELESSNESS IN LOS ANGELES A searing solo performance from 1984 where #MoTo and his friends narrate the #Olympics from the sidewalks of #SkidRow. Helicopters, banners, and displacement. Read here: artsoftheworkingclass.org/text/olympic-u… #LA1984 #HousingJustice #Performance

LETTERS FROM VENDORS In this letter, our vendor Rico reflects on a recent relapse. Rico's account is not just about substances, but about grief, impulse, and how the body remembers what the mind tried to forget. Read his whole letter here: artsoftheworkingclass.org/text/letters-f…

„Construction, Occupation“ traces global solidarities and local gestures that challenge erasure, gentrification, and visibility politics. #DaliaMaini in conversation with curators #YudiRafael #JulianaCaffé and #AlexUngprateebFlynn artsoftheworkingclass.org/text/grassroot…

From one air-conditioned room to the other, and never-ending labor shifts. Dalia Maini on Sharjah Biennal 16 „to carry“ and Apirl Acts: „to carry new formations“. #SharjahBiennal #tocarry #DaliaMaini READ HERE: artsoftheworkingclass.org/text/april-act…

Stanton Taylor is tracing the surreal entanglement of surveillance, seduction, and the lingering ghosts of conceptual art at Various Others, Munich. #StantonTaylor #variousothers #conceptualart #hauntology #militaryaesthetics READ HERE: artsoftheworkingclass.org/text/coinciden…

March 2025, half a million people, 15 min of silence. The largest protest in modern Serbian history, honoring viticms of corruption after the Novi Sad railway disaster. #serbia #protest #NoviSad Read Marija Pavlović’s notes from Belgrade here: artsoftheworkingclass.org/text/tishina-t…

Poetic resistance in fragmented prose: A weaving of personal memoir and political critique, exploring the silencing of diaspora grief. #resistance #diaspora #grief #memoire Read Jamila Barakat’s „In den Rissen der Sille“ here: artsoftheworkingclass.org/text/in-den-ri…

“In Berlin, survival meant working nonstop—and staying silent. I chose the opposite.” @zallelujjah on migrant labor, meme-making as resistance, and going online to stay visible in a system built to erase you. #migrantlabor #meme #resistance Read here: artsoftheworkingclass.org/text/word-work…

“The goal is to create autonomy in cultural production, without submitting to the neoliberal aesthetics.” @MarcoBaravalle discusses the necessity of rethinking cultural autonomy & independent spaces. #RadicalArt #CulturalResistance Read here: artsoftheworkingclass.org/text/creare-sp…

Great review in Arts of the Working Class of the great Ljubljana Biennale, curated by chus martinez artsoftheworkingclass.org/text/oracle-th…

„I have always carried stories of places I’ve never set foot in“ #AriaBaghestani meditates on witnessing the atrocities of the present mediated by our screens, and how storytelling resists reduction and erasure #protest #storytelling #solidarity Read here: artsoftheworkingclass.org/text/speaking-…

„Narrating Protest: Participatory Research along the Mekong River“ by #NoaJaari investigates how crowd-sourced knowledge questions power relations and strives for social change in the climate movement in northern Thailand. #climatejustice #thaibanresearch artsoftheworkingclass.org/text/narrating…

What does it mean to direct an art fair today? A conversation with #NikolaDietrich, the new director of #ListeArtFair about curatorial responsibility, artistic urgency, and what it means to lead an art fair that helps to shape discourse? Read here: artsoftheworkingclass.org/text/30-jahre-…

What if art criticism did not understand itself as a site of judgment, but as a practice of midwifery? Read the opening notes of #MariaInesPlazaLazo on the #AWC & #AICA Germany symposium on June 21 at Atelier Gardens, Berlin: artsoftheworkingclass.org/text/art-criti…

Hope does not have to be realistic, nor does it have to be everlasting! #LaraTorbay on the difference between the fragile possibility of a different future versus its complete annihilation in her notes on #Ceasefires and #Dehumanisation: artsoftheworkingclass.org/text/this-isnt…

WHEN THE LANDSCAPE IS A FRONTLINE #JonathanOmerMizrahi maps the Gaza envelop as a living borderland where agriculture is conscripted into colonial order. #Gaza #migrantlabor #resistance #borderland Read „Fence and Viper“ here: artsoftheworkingclass.org/text/fence-and…

OUT NOW: ISSUE #37 ON TRANSFIGURATION Transfiguration arrives as an act of faith - tracing shifts in consciousness, endurance, and the language of survival. get your copy on the streets or buy here: …ts-of-the-working-class.myshopify.com/products/issue…