Syndicate of Creatures (“KRÆ”)

Syndicate of Creatures (or “KRÆ”) organizes festivals, exhibitions, and other gatherings around the issues of climate collapse, the destructive forces of the modern economy, and imagining alternative futures. At their core, KRÆ believes the world needs radical rethinking for the sake of the planet’s longterm health. While the capitalistic “autocannibalism” devours nature, feasts on all living creatures, and living growths— humans become a bottomless gap of insatiable needs, in a splintered world, where reflection hurts as the world is spinning in the wrong direction. KRÆ says: in response to this new splintered world, “we turn into disturbing creatures; we become KRÆ— creatures identifying with critters and growths, emerging as beings of the earth.”

KRÆ gathers audiences around exhibitions, events, rituals, and public dialogue forums. They create artistically-based events that revolve around inter-connectedness, either to nature, the world, the past, the future, and not least to each other. KRÆ extends the crumbling contemporary belief that the basic democratic and humanistic structures established by Modernism has led to war, camps, and walls that divide bodies between life and death as its ultimate consequence. At the same time, the basic conditions for life on our planet are threatened by the same growth and productiveness that was meant to secure its maintenance.

The Syndicate of Creatures works with the connections between death in culture and the representation of the radical other: the refugee, the creature, the weed, the violence, the grotesque, the bacteria, the naked life— all entities and bodies that represent and characterize the unwanted.