25.9.2026
Introduction Day
We are deeply looking forward to taking off with you all for the 2025/2026 Dirty Art Department trip. The times are as dark as we can imagine, and as ‘tears add to tears as they travel across the sea’*, the Dirty Art Departments commitment to a blend of art, design and activism to create a ‘world we would want to live in’ could seem more like banging our heads against the wall than some Sisyphian stoicism.
Hope comes in three words – Assume Power Focus – what is it? …. a call for an ethic of the real? a gesture to go beneath the surface of humanity and subscend western capitalist hegemony towards a new idea of the universal? let’s not lie, and can we get together? jumping around to some fucking loud music to take the rage away? An evening with Kris Korda’s Church of Euthenesia and Crackhead Barney’s direct action? A stark DIY black and white image of an early concert poster of the legendary noise band Throbbing Gristle** whose protagonists, Genesis P Orridge and Cosey Fanni Tutti, went on to develop the concept of Pandrogeny and touched the apex of love?
Assume Power Focus
We can do it
Kirtis, Anna, Henrica, Florence and Jerszy
*Text from Santiago Reyes – Pleurer Ensemble, Action Collective, Marseilles 7/9/2025
** Assume Power Focus – poster from the album The Second Annual Report – Throbbing Gristle – 1977