II. Objectives and missions statement
Tools for Action provides a platform for collaboration between artists, researchers, educators and policymakers. Our mission is to encourage the development of alternative forms of assembly, political action and performance. Core principles and tenets of the institution:
- Open source way of working, whereby the findings and knowledge yield from the projects are made public and actively disseminated.
- Inclusive, interdisciplinary working method, ensuring sensitivity to the value of each other’s expertise
- Enforcement of fair practice and the code of good governance in the cultural sector (fair remuneration for artists, transparent governance)
- Absence of profit motive
Mission Statement
The foundation aims to :
EXPERIMENT: to develop, research and share new forms of socially critical art;
COOPERATION: to be a platform for interdisciplinary and/or international collaboration between artists, educators, researchers, cultural institutions and citizens, among others;
ENGAGEMENT: to invite people to alternative forms of social engagement, active citizenship and/or participation;
ACTIVATION: making space in public space and activating collective imagination and capacity to act;
DISCUSSION: generating media coverage and promoting discussions on human rights, social justice and ecological issues;
QUESTIONING: questioning social norms, exclusionary processes and power relations from intersectional and queer perspectives;
KNOWLEDGE: researching, gathering and exchanging knowledge and disclosing acquired knowledge;
the performance of all further actions which are related to the above in the broadest sense or which may be conducive thereto.
Working method
- Creation and deployment of spatial and artistic “implements” (tools) including pneumatic objects during demonstrations, performances or interventions;
- Presentations, exhibitions, symposia;
- Performances, manifestations and interventions;
- Publications, online and offline communication and tools for knowledge sharing;
- Educational activities, participatory workshops, toolkits, open source manuals and construction kits;
- Offering and facilitating residencies and exchange;
- Archiving and publishing work processes;
