

To enable the public sharing and use of both expert and locally sourced data on intra-urban concentrations of lead hazards – an unevenly shared risk within cities – we will collaborate with community groups, municipal agencies, and lead hazard scholars to co-create an online map that identifies available data on lead in urban soils, lead paint hazards within buildings, and lead hazards in post-industrial sites. Experts calculate that over 9 million US children have lead blood levels which may cause sub-clinical signs and permanent adverse health, cognitive, and behavior outcomes. Ramon Film Productions.This research is important, as leading public health experts estimate that currently over 500,000 children below the age of six are injured each year through their exposure to lead dust found in the home and in the landscape, with permanent cognitive deficits. Iain Chambers (Jimmie Durham & A Stick in the Forest by the Side of the Road)Įlisa Strinna (Jimmie Durham & A Stick in the Forest by the Side of the Road)Īndre Eugene & Leah Gordon of Atis Rezistans | Ghetto BiennaleĪrts Collaboratory / Kunci Study Forum & Collective Wilma Lukatsch (Jimmie Durham & A Stick in the Forest by the Side of the Road) Joen Vedel (Jimmie Durham & A Stick in the Forest by the Side of the Road) Kenan Darwich & Sami Rustom (Fehras Publishing Practices) We look forward to seeing you during the hundred days of documenta fifteen.Īna Carolina Fernández Alfonso / Serigrafistas Queer We invite you to read the May 7 letter from ruangrupa here. We denounce the media participation in these smear campaigns.

We also express our dismay and disappointment at the amplification that the original baseless blog post of disinformation and manipulated content received in some of the mainstream media. And we stand firmly against all forms of discrimination, including racist, xenophobic, antisemitic, sexist, transphobic, anti-Muslim, anti-Palestinian, anti-Roma, ableist, casteist, classist, and ageist actions and attacks. We are united against the racist attacks that started this sequence of events. This is a very worrying escalation of the situation that began almost six months ago here in Kassel. On May 28, the exhibition and living spaces of documenta were broken into and defaced with what can only be interpreted as a death threat.

Since that time there has been further racist activity against us, and it has crossed over from the digital space into our physical spaces. We, the lumbung community (the artists and members of documenta fifteen), add our collective voices in support of the letter that was published on May 7 by ruangrupa, the artistic team of documenta fifteen, and some curators of the failed forum “We Need to Talk! Art – Freedom – Solidarity,” in response to the ripple effects of the false accusations of antisemitism made against some members of this lumbung community.
