On July 2nd Scores for Gardens performed a site-specific intervention at Kunstfort bij Vijfhuizen as parts of their program Worlds that World.

In this first edition of ‘Worlds that World’ Kunstfort bij Vijfhuizen offers space to a selection of four initiatives to expand their practice centered around world building.

Worlds that World
Over the past years huddled voices became increasingly louder in reaction to the clusterfuck of multiple crises (Wxtchcraft, 2021) shaped by trauma and desperate need of survival. In times defined by capitalism, ableism, white supremacy and patriarchy, these voices experience a lack of space and resources to dream another world: “The late Mark Fisher once famously said that it’s easier to imagine the end of the world than it is to imagine the end of capitalism. The same could be said about prisons: it is easier to imagine the end of the world than it is to imagine a world without prisons.’’ (Wang, 2018)

Without space, how can dreams that are dreamt and worlds that are worlded stay undefined by – and ultimately end – repetitive threatening forces? We need an exercise of visioning and dreaming skills (Mingus 2017, as quoted in Wang 2018). We need to push ourselves to dream in vibrant sounds and loud colors.

What shape and color is accountability? What is the sound of abolition?

Read more at: https://www.kunstfort.nl/en/public-program/worlds-that-world/