We are in times of crisis. And despite the climate breaking down around us, I, as a white western European, am still able to go to art school in a relatively undisturbed manner (as if we are not talking about the foundation of life). How then to find my place as an artist within the climate justice movement? I was discussing this relation of art and activism with a fellow theater student from the Conservatoire National Superieur d’ Art Dramatique in Paris, Simon. He recommended this book to me, and I could not be more grateful, as it has sharpened my understanding greatly.
 
Jumping between battles with cops on the ZAD (Zone à Défendre) to intimate encounters with birds, this book leaves space for making homes in between the words. Yet, their writing is sharp and unmistakably urgent - the need to end business-as-usual extends to all parts of our lives: as they trace “Art-as-we-know-it” to its roots in white supremacist, colonial and nationalist bodies of thoughts, they situate activist artistic practices in the world and root their art deeply within a community. The social and the ecological become inextricably entangled in a network of solidarity: art, after all, may be able to provide some threads to stitch the patchwork of a better world.
 
Toni Kritzer (they/them)
 trans*disciplinary performance artist