At the very beginning, we raised a number of questions about institutional practices and the donor economy in Palestine. What we came to understand was that institutional practice within NGOS and organizations had become entirely focused on navigating crises, which are manifold and which inevitably transformed how we perceived our practice as producers and organizers, our work within our community but also cultural work itself. So, why the question of funding? It seemed to us that institutional work changed the way in which we practiced art and culture insofar as it had to cater to the agenda of grant proposals and not the other way around. After a deluge of questions and attempts at mapping the status quo, we tried to consolidate these discursive efforts under one question: How to work together? is an overarching question under which we seek to pose further questions related to the donor economy and cultural infrastructures. Different projects fall under the umbrella of this question and take shape depending on specific frameworks that demand that we reformulate our working models, our work with other collectives, and economic infrastructures at large. We also recognize the fact that other cultural organizations and practitioners face the same issues in the region and beyond it. We look to broaden our conversations and thinking as widely as we can, to hold spaces in which people can share their own experiences in their respective contexts. That is why we ask: What are your questions?

What is the question of funding? How did funding impact the institutions’ infrastructures and modes of production? What culture does the donor economy create? Is culture organic and does it represent political power structures? Whose discourse does culture claim to speak for? How did cultural producers turn into employees within this infrastructure? Is there such a thing as unconditional funding? Can we work without funding? How to work together? How do we rethink our definition of funding? What models of funding exist in society? Is funded work better than unfunded work? What can civil society do to become independent? Does being dependent on the community make one independent? Are we in a position to deconstruct the meaning of "culture" or an alternative culture? What can we do as a small collective in the context of documenta fifteen? How can we become hosts when we are also guests? How do we harvest the questions, stories, and ideas that emerge from within us? How do we tell the story of a collective from Gaza? What do we learn from existing models of collectivity and artistic work? Whose stories are we telling and to whom? How do we create a supplementary economy? Is funding just about money? How do we nurture the trust circles in our community? What questions should we ask?