Since 2009 we have been working as a place for development and reflection for artistic research and practice, critical educational work, trans*disciplinary cultural work and discrimination-critical knowledge and theory production. Grounded in intersectional, queer, discrimination-critical and decolonial approaches, District explores the curatorial as a performative and analytical practice and probes new kinds of community. With a focus on locating artistic practice in the tensions between body and urban space, infrastructure and desire, ecology and performance, history and imagination, District develops collaborative and research-oriented formats.

District emerges from a growing, poly-vocal community of individuals, initiatives, and institutions that programmatically participate and contribute to District’s long-term maintenance as a laboratory for contemporary artistic-intellectual practices. Different forms of relation and emancipatory moments of friendship generate occasions to open up the present towards different perspectives and forms of knowledge through the means of art. With intersectional consciousness, District creates a space for critical dialogues and heterogeneous alliances, especially regarding queer, feminist, decolonial, and anti-racist politics and tests new forms of community.