Dirt

Lakhdhar is the Co-Founding Editor at Dirt.

Dirt is an independent platform, collective, and resource for accessible critical arts discourse. Originally founded in the DC, Maryland, Virginia (DMV) area, Dirt focuses on direct engagement with artists, culture, and the forces that impact them. With that in mind, our approach is not limited by geography. We are interested in tracing the overlaps, exchanges, and conversations amongst our peer art communities.

In an increasingly jargon-ridden and inaccessible contemporary art field, Dirt is interested in alternative and critical approaches to addressing arts, politics, and culture. By way of our collective approach, Dirt creates a space in which our editors, contributors, readers, collaborators, and peers have the space to explore, discuss, interpret, question, critique, and share. Dirt’s mission is to push and challenge the idea of what critical arts discourse looks like while discovering our own individual critical voices.