As collective fears of an uncertain future intensified, we saw our relationship to community and intimacy permanently altered. In response, we choose to stand closer together to overcome the challenges of our time, developing a life-affirming togetherness in the face of an unstable world. To this end, the Avantgardeners wishes to explore community building through creative projects; they wish to create an open, constantly transforming community of artists, creatives and activists. Our swampy garden plants the seeds to imagine and manifest future identities and worlds – a space for creation and possibilities to emerge. As eco-feminists immersed in LGBTQ+ and climate strike communities, we believe in a world outside of gender binaries and physical conformity. We believe in nurturing and celebrating intimate encounters with our precious ecosystem.
The Avantgardeners sprouted from the varied collaborative efforts connected to the work of Livia Rita, while steadily becoming its own ecosystem; our collaborative approach enables us to layer fresh perspectives.
Additionally, the Avantgardeners are building an archive of dreams, fears and desires as a means of shifting into this next epoch with care.
A SPACE FOR CROSS-POLLINATION
Our creative roots stretch across boundaries, creating a fertile garden for discussion, creation and possibility to emerge. The future is a collective term - it cannot be faced alone.
A COMMUNITY GARDEN FOR NATURE’S FUTURAS & ALL FELLOW CREATURES
Our generation’s tears fall freely in our garden. We reject the modern world’s destruction of potential in the name of pure progress and growth. Our work is future-focused: we explore queer utopias, environmental dystopias and everything in between. We seek to inspire a youth-led vision of change by daring to dream and refusing to conform. We uphold nature as our guide and core as we grasp for a new, tangible futures together. We turn observers and critics into active participants in the act of world-building.