an art collective built around the core pursuits of animism, decolonization and communism, which drive our guiding principles.
art, writing, and events that strive to bring a sense of play together with the pursuit of personal and collective growth. We want to have meaningful fun, to learn and work together in advancing both our understandings and our praxis.
of helping to restore reciprocity and good relations with the land, pursue decolonization and dismantle capital, contribute to building communism, and create new collectivist culture in line with the world that we want to help build and live in. We don't expect our artwork itself to do this work, but we do see creating the artwork as a means of exploring our relationships to these endeavors, as a launchpad for writing and dialog around these topics, and as inspiration to encourage others to take up these most crucial efforts.
are made up of a core group emerging from a found family network, with some satellite members who participate and contribute more seasonally. Members are semi-anonymous; individuals are welcome to acknowledge their participation in animal camp, but we do not publicly assign credit for work animal camp produces to individual members. Aliases are used in public-facing representations when more specific discussion is the best course of action.
collaboratively, with each piece of artwork produced being worked on by at least two members, and often by more than that. Some works such as writing pieces on the website may be written by individual members under their chosen alias. But we also feel it is important to highlight that because of the nature of our group, the influence of other members of the group is always present in unseen ways-- in sharing inspiration, knowledge, and experiences which inevitably inform each of our creations.
original traditional artwork and in-house hand produced items. We have no plans to ever order the manufacture of merchandise or to create reproductions such as prints, with the exception of limited print runs created in alternative hands-on printing processes such as lino, silkscreen, cyanotype or risograph printing.
are split roughly three ways: one third to fund doing more animal camp stuff, one third to a pool for animal camp members to pull from in case of financial need, and one third to radical indigenous organizing here on turtle island.
are words which can replace the last word of "animal camp art collective" in order to make sure our acronym reads as acab. Here are some words you can use for that: body, battalion, buddies, bitches, bureau, babes. please be sure to let us know if you think of any good ones we can add.
is all labeled as creative commons copyleft, which means that all of our artworks are open to be used in the creation of new artworks, so long as those new artworks are also labeled as creative commons copyleft. Later this summer we will have writing which explains our philosophy here and offers perspectives on copyright abolition as a necessary part of moving beyond thinking like capitalists.