ANARKOARTLAB

 This video is a record of the collective AnarkoArtLab's performances and happenings at the NYC Anarchist art Festival in 2019, which took place at the Judson Memorial Church. It is an anarchist, feminist, queer and decolonial festival. Driven by anarchic notions, they don't corroborate with traditional and dominant concepts of space (architecture and public spaces), time, language and sexuality, contesting the dominant system of power and its mechanisms of control and oppression. The way of thinking and making art of AnarkoArtLab are situated in a position of resistance to hierarchical social structures, ecologically catastrophic and socially oppressive, with regard to the bi-partite division of genders, the oppression of women, the marginality and violence to which the LGBTQIA+ community is subjected, the class issues, the racism, the extinction of the indigenous population and of the forest. All those fronts of struggle, consequences of colonialism and the neoliberal logic in its updated manifestation, are recognized by these artists and assembled in their intersectional way of producing transmedia art, by building networks and connections between different social demands. The collective creates potential for individual and collective liberation in reality through immersive, collaborative, participatory and symbolic artworks, stimulating critical thinking and transforming consciences.[ Natasha Marzliak ]