AT THE OUTSET, we would like to express our solidarity with ruangrupa, the lumbung artists, and the staff of Documenta as they continue to be subjected to political and bureaucratic harassment. We view with great concern the upsetting discourse, particularly in Germany, playing out in a cynical game of liability management among politicians and public figures, which we fear will ultimately lead to a further precaritization of intellectual, artistic, and other forms of labor within Documenta; of Palestinian artists; and of all those who take a position against ongoing Israeli apartheid.

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“IDEAS ARE TO OBJECTS,” suggested Walter Benjamin, “as constellations are to stars.” This metaphor comes to me as I drift through the Fridericianum, which has been restyled as a school by the Indonesian collective ruangrupa, artistic directors of Documenta 15. Etched across the walls on its ground floor are notes and diagrams elaborating the pedagogical methods of Gudskul, an alternative art school devoted to collective practices and ecosystem studies. Founded in Jakarta in 2018 by ruangrupa with fellow collectives Serrum and Grafis Huru Hara, Gudskul is a kind of polestar