The KRÆ (CREATURE) Syndicate

The KRÆ Syndicate is a collective that organizes festivals, exhibitions, and other gatherings around the issues of climate collapse, the destructive forces of the modern economy, and imagining alternative futures. KRÆ is a syndicate of creatures who believe that the world needs radical rethinking. While the capitalistic autocannibalism devours nature, feasts on all living creatures and living growths; while humans become a bottomless gap of insatiable needs, in a splintered world, where reflection hurts as the world is spinning in the wrong direction; we turn into disturbing creatures – we become KRÆ – creatures identifying with critters and growths, emerging as beings of the earth.

We gather around exhibitions, events, rituals and conversations. We work with events that revolve around inter-connectedness, either to nature, the world, the past, the future, and not least to each other. We want to create an experimental non profit environment for rethinking, we start by dealing with the grotesque, the absurd, the rejected, the elements of nature, the robots and death. We use art and poetic collaboration as a gateway to disturb our fossilized mindsets and awaken numb senses.

The KRÆ Syndicate works in extension of 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 KRÆ Syndicate work 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, naked life: things and bodies that represent and characterize the unwanted.