all of the tear gas over the last week makes me think of the whitney. & how long it took to get that manufacturing $ off the board. & how much culture-making is materially built from weapons, prisons, implements of terror, sickness, exploitative labor, pollutants (1)

divestment is necessary, imperfectable, and constant. there is always more we have to give up. we prioritize this in our work at the project & still / always have more to do. when an institution uses this $, we substantiate the fiction of its value (2)

we can't support what the art is abt & in the same breath ignore the financial fabric of its making. i understand the institutional fear of losing support, but to my mind that means it's our responsibility to envision other more broadly inclusive models for building resources (3)

the oligarchic manner of our institutions has been a deep infectant of culture, which of course shapes how we think abt structures of work, government, family etc. the function of the institution can't be to preserve itself. we need to be more lateral & radically open (4)