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2022📍documenta fifteen

We, Party Office, one of the lumbung artists of documenta fifteen, ask for the public release of the race and gender demographics of the documenta gGmbH employees and administration. This call for public release of information is a process towards mutually respectful collective practice, and should not require any additional negotiation or equivocation.

https://dumpor.com/c/5124682576545187682

Party Office asked Documenta to provide a safety plan they could follow in the event of a hate crime. This would be shared with the curatorial team, their artists, and the predominantly queer, transgender, and BIPOC people that would be attending the club central to Queer Time. Instead, they say, Documenta’s organizers told them to rely on a private security firm they had hired, and local police. Party Office, however, wants Documenta to issue a public apology. “My main desire is for them to admit they did not make a safety plan, apologize for not making a plan, and to actually publish a plan. Because it will happen again. It’s a powder keg they have created,” Cannizzaro said.
Cannizzaro added that some solutions could include staffing people trained in de-escalation, providing officers not connected to the German criminal justice system, and creating a phone line to reach a dedicated emergency response team.

https://dumpor.com/c/8694642420886620882

https://dumpor.com/c/7445599813981720882

There is also a statement from the BPOC Festival Kassel: https://linktr.ee/bpocfestivalkassel

And a letter from the lumbung community: https://www.e-flux.com/notes/481665/censorship-must-be-refused-letter-from-lumbung-community