Abstracted Materialism

We, the practitioners of Abstracted Materialism, stand at the threshold of a world unravelling.

Climate chaos, mass migration, and the slow erosion of community by digital binaries. Our work is a refusal and a proposition.

It is a radical act of seeing and making: a commitment to the real, the abstract, and the possible.

Against Binary Thinking

We reject the tyranny of either/or. 

The world is not zero or one. 

To abstract is not to erase, but to unmoor: to take the material, bodies, histories, mediums, and allow their meanings to drift, recombine, layer and mutate. 

We find in the non-binary the possibility of new forms, new senses, new solidarities.

Material as Process, Not Product

Abstracted Materialism is not a fetish of the tangible; it is the art of attention. 

We value process over product, gesture over object. 

To re-imagine the digital and express the analogue.

The ephemeral and the enduring, are all matter for transformation.

We do not fear the byte’s impermanence or the world’s decay.

Kindness as Resistance

Abstracted Materialism is not a solitary pursuit; it is a gathering.

We believe in an accessible, global network of creative kindness.

Art as haven.

Art as voice.

Art as mutual aid.

Community is not a societal postscript; it is the medium in which we work.

We resist the void with care, laughter, and the unruliness of hope.

Queering Ecology: Beyond the Human

We recognise the interconnectedness of beings and biome.

We listen for the voices within the void, the unseen, the unheard.

Our queerness is not metaphor; it is material.

Queering art is a way of re-worlding; of sensing possibility.

Humour and Adaptability

We respond to catastrophe with raucous humour and gentle understanding.

Irony is not cynicism; it is survival. 

Flexibility is not compromise; it is adaptation. 

Creativity bends, breaks, and reassembles.

Our art provides choice over essentialism, liberation over assimilation.

Our art is both warning and celebration.

Toward a New Accessibility

We invite the closed clique, the stale market, and the moribund academia to leave the normative.

Abstracted Materialism seeks the widest commons. 

We use every tool: code, pigments, meme and movement.

We translate, remix, and redistribute. 

Art belongs to all who need it.

Join the Network.

Abstract what binds you. Materialise what frees you.

Make kin, make mischief, make new.

There is no purity in the void; only connection, transformation, and the stubborn joy of making otherwise.

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