KNOTS: ICE Out!

KNOTS is a growing network of creatives collaborating with noise and sound art to fundraise for direct action groups, charities, and more to combat encroaching authoritarianism. Facilitated by Cuttfruit and vanchoked, KNOTS aims to divorce itself from the consumerist driven and barrier entrenched experimental music scene, while opening it up to cross-disciplinary collaborations.

KNOTS: ICE Out! will be fundraising for the Immigrant Defense Network in Minnesota, which supports over 90 immigrant, labor, legal, faith, and community organizations dedicated to protecting and advancing the constitutional rights of immigrant communities.

We are urgently fundraising for them after the recent surge of ICE agents in Minneapolis, and the killings of Reene Good and Alex Pretti. The second Trump administration has been equipped with unprecedented power given by a Republican-filled Supreme Court, backed by Silicon Valley’s tech giants, and empowered by politicians who bend at the knee of capital. The victims of this second administration span political beliefs, race, and even countries, attacking the working-class and impoverished the most.

As a scapegoat for an imperialist country in decline, this administration has targeted our immigrant neighbours. A rhetoric which has spread across establishment parties to appease ever growing ethno nationalist and fascist movements in the U.S. and Europe. We must reject the notion that anti-immigrant rhetoric is based in anything but racism.

KNOTS invites activists, organisers, poets, writers, playwrights, movement artists, and more to collaborate with noise and sound artists to share work that advocates hope, resistance, frustration, and encourages us all to learn from lived experiences. Join us as we demand ICE Out! in America, discuss how we can achieve it, and reject anti-immigrant rhetoric from our governments.

Recommended age: 16+