YAS MANIFESTO
WORK ETHIC, GENDER EQUALITY AND INCLUSIVE LANGUAGE
The work ethic has always been a strong point for those who work at Yas: something that we think should come before any artistic or organizational matter.
We are committed to this by paying ourselves, paying those who collaborate with Yas, guaranteeing free information about fair working conditions, access to specific legal advice and collaboration contracts.
These are the same criteria by which we choose our partners.
As a Yas team, we believe that gender equality concerns civilization and rights first, then politics. We are therefore committed to ensuring that female artists, male artists and non-binary artists are represented in a measure that is as fair as possible and non-discriminatory.
Starting from this, we felt the need to respond the demands of feminist, queer and non-binary representativeness for the use of a more inclusive language.
CARE: CONCEPTUAL, RELATIONAL, ACTIVIST
We would like the concept of CARE to be central to our artistic community and society.
The message that Yas wants to share is, first of all, ‘care for the artists’ work, for the artistic and cultural community (visual arts, music, entertainment), for artistic practice, for production and fruition’.
We would like to extend this concept also to the way of making and weaving relationships, of developing them and of sharing and communicating art.
We are committed to sharing examples and projects that can inspire, as much as possible, the concretization of practicing care, which means choosing the way to become activists.
A FAR-SIGHTED AND SHARED PLANNING PROGRAM
We would like to contribute to start a reflection about what organizing events and exhibitions means in current times and we have chosen to do it sharing our vision and trying to be far-sighted.
This is because we believe that quality programming needs a broad scope and that every action has an impact.
Why sharing? Because we think that, at the design level, this is the best choice to combine different ideas and intersect skills.
