ABSTRACT
In this chapter, we discuss several collaborative art projects of David Graeber and the Yes Women Group, exploring values such as creativity and redefining “art” as part of a larger project of liberation. Focusing on the feminist actions undertaken by the Yes Women Group, we show how collective art practices may help to reshape relationships and repair broken social ties, while at the same time, revealing new forms of affiliations beyond nations, borders, and blood relations. We conclude with a discussion of Carnival4David, an international funeral event memorializing the life and legacy of David Graeber in 2020. This memorial was organized by a broad and overlapping assembly of art and activist groups, including ZAD, the Church of Stop Shopping, ExRebellion, as well as friends, peers, and readers of David Graeber. The Memorial Carnival used the artistic strategies that Graeber celebrated to overturn relations of power, not only social and political but also the eternal power of the biological order that we all, as humans, are mortally afraid of.
