Transart Statement
Transart Institute is actively opposing oppression and discrimination in all forms. This living statement remains in process and includes continuous input from students, faculty and staff.
We value and strive for an environment where diversity and multiplicity are cherished, celebrated, and respected. We understand that differences can manifest in multiple, intersectional ways that include but are not limited to racialisation, ethnicity, age, cultural, educational and socio-economic backgrounds, gender identity, sexuality, disability and/or neurodiversity.
We recognize that this work will never be complete and that there will always be new lessons to learn. We do not expect this work to be simple or easy and recognize that discomfort and dissatisfaction are at times integral to true and lasting change. Therefore, we intend to work as agents for transformation, listen to and learn from our students, staff and faculty, acknowledge all of our truths and to be open and responsive to new perspectives and uncomfortable insights.
Transart will continue to actively dismantle hierarchies. As a small international school we have the unique capacity to unmake structures and foster sustainable transformative processes.
Within our practices we attend to differences across multiple axes towards undoing discrimination, harassment and othering to ensure all members of our community are respected. We aim to offer equal opportunities for our members and strive to foster positive and enriching relations between all colleagues.
Transart's intention is and will continue to be to work with students, instructors and faculty to foster learning and social spaces where power is shared, to explore and celebrate different epistemologies and ontologies so that there is always a plurality of perspectives present.
We are very fortunate to be enriched by the diversity of our students. We actively review faculty diversity to ensure we deliver the most inclusive programs possible. We pledge to honour, bear witness to and support our wonderfully broad community, to acknowledge mistakes and to transform them into opportunities for growth.
We understand our struggles against capitalism, colonialism, heteropatriarchy, ableism, racism, ageism, anti-queer sentiment and religious discrimination to be intertwined and we strive to move as accomplices with each other and with our communities understanding our movements towards solidarity and resistance as powerfully interwoven, moving together as change makers.