Dearests,

Our deepest gratitude to each and everyone who brought and shared their magic, their talents, their time, their thoughts, ideas, hopes and fears with us this past year. In 2022, we commit to going deeper with you. We commit to more soft resistance, to slowing down with you, to practices of holding space instead of taking it, to practices of solidarity that carve possibilities of rest and restitution for those who need it the most, to the practice of (re)distributing our energy so that we may carry each other forward with grace in the necessary labor that lies ahead of us all. 

We commit to intersectional ecologies of care, to the commons, to indigenous and reparative stewardship of land, and we are deeply indebted to the anticapitalist and decolonial struggles for planetary survival and social justice everywhere. We commit to feral joy and to tender collaborations, to radical politics of the everyday, to mothers of all genders, and to the rights of care workers internationally.

We commit to radical imagination because we believe we will need to dream it before we will do it, and because imagination, storytelling and worldbuilding are inseparable and essential tools of our collective survival. 

We commit to working with all of you in figuring out how to navigate and reconfigure this strange (art) world, in figuring out how to utilize this deeply flawed and sometimes breathtakingly beautiful thing called art as a space for resistance against the violently extracting and exhausting structures that our capitalist society is build upon. We commit to an otherwise which is not easy, not romantic, not natural, but an open and honest process of repair and reparation, of accountability, of building and weaving collaborations and solidarity across differences, generations, skills, privileges, struggles.

We commit to coming together, to listen better, to conspire, to breathe together with and for other ways of living, strategizing, co-creating, repairing, undermining, and becoming together on this damaged, damaged Earth, and as Diane di Prima wrote: “like a million earthworms tunneling under this structure till it falls”.

Here, in the last days of this strange year, we invite you to receive a few precious gifts, as solace and comfort for those of us who may need it, and as an advent of what is in store for our little Laboratory in the future. To everyone, we offer a reading by Alexis Pauline Gumbs from her amazing book Undrowned: Black feminist lessons from Marine Mammals and to our Danish friends, we offer one of Diane di Prima’s Revolutionary Letters in Danish translation by the collective Fredag Aften