Our Stance,
Our Demands
As artists within the Dutch cultural landscape, we refuse this false choice. We refuse to have our art used for artwashing genocide. We refuse to partake in a culture where public funding bodies willfully accept the normalization of militarization, occupation, and settler colonial brutality.
Therefore, we demand the Mondriaan Fund and the organisers of PROSPECTS take the following actions:
- Public Accountability:
Publicly acknowledge the political implications of using a venue tied to the arms trade. There is no neutrality; silence is complicity.
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Immediate Withdrawal and Ethical Re-alignment:
- Publicly condemn Ahoy Rotterdam’s role in hosting NEDS.
- Commit to withdrawing Prospects from Ahoy unless it permanently severs all ties with the arms industry.
- Use your leverage to relocate the Art Rotterdam to a venue that does not profit from war
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An Institutional Stance Against Militarisation:
- Guarantee that no public funds administered by the Mondriaan Fund will ever again support venues tied to the arms trade.
- Issue a transparent statement recognising your ethical responsibility to protect artists from being instrumentalised for artwashing.
Publicly acknowledge the political implications of using a venue tied to the arms trade. There is no neutrality; silence is complicity.
- - Publicly condemn Ahoy Rotterdam’s role in hosting NEDS.
- - Commit to withdrawing Prospects from Ahoy unless it permanently severs all ties with the arms industry.
- - Use your leverage to relocate the Art Rotterdam to a venue that does not profit from war
- - Guarantee that no public funds administered by the Mondriaan Fund will ever again support venues tied to the arms trade.
- - Issue a transparent statement recognising your ethical responsibility to protect artists from being instrumentalised for artwashing.