"It's a toxic relationship. It's as if we invited Rafael Nadal and he had to go pick up the balls"

ManacorThe Mundana Command will perform by surprise at Manacor's Night of Art this Saturday. The rebel group of 80 artists, dissatisfied with the organization's work by the City Council and the treatment and conditions they are given when participating, are already working to have their demands ready.

"It is born out of discomfort and rage. We haven't gone looking for anyone. The command has been formed by people who saw our protest on social media and contacted us," explain four of its representatives, sitting at a table with customized Amazon bags as masks.

"We call ourselves this because a command is unabsorbable and cannot be negotiated with," they joke about the 'terroartist' command. "Mundana, because we are earthly and it is also synonymous with rage."

"As two years ago, the City Council is repeating a formula that uses shops as unsuitable exhibition spaces. Furthermore, it is the Council itself that assigns you the space, you don't choose it. You also don't talk to the shopkeeper of the place where you will exhibit... we feel that everything is very improvised. It's a very "}crappy Night of Art and not worthy," they add.

There have been artists, however, who for visibility have accepted the municipal rules, which also indicated that it would be "zero kilometer," meaning only with participants from the municipality. "Which makes everything very precarious. They don't pay for a dinner, a bottle of wine, not even a catalog or an explanatory card of who is who or what they do." "All in all, it's like wanting to have a concert where there is no lighting and it's not heard well..."

"The artist is a beggar for visibility. Mistreatment and lack of professionalism towards us is being normalized. It's like inviting Rafa Nadal to play, but he had to bring the car, the audience, and had to go pick up the balls... it's a toxic relationship that we have accepted, but that can no longer continue."

Comando Mundana denounces that a "code of good practices" is necessary. "Now, the Manacor City Council will sell it as a popularization of art; what's happening is that professionals no longer even approach it."