The Church of Art
We do not think art belongs in a museum. We think it belongs in a warehouse, on a wall, in somebody's headphones, on somebody's body, in a kitchen, on a stage, in a shipping container, and in a beat someone made at three in the morning because they could not sleep.
Music is art.
Dance is art.
Clothing is art.
Architecture is art.
Food is art.
Light is art.
The beat you made at 3:17 in the morning is art.
You do not need a degree, a gallery, or a following. You do not even have to call yourself an artist. If you make something, you are in it. If you feel something all the way through, you are in it too.
What did the coin find today?
Something different every time you open this. Some of it is ours. Some of it is from a museum that puts its public-domain collection online for anyone to use.
Two ways in, and neither is locked
There is no members' tier here, no rope, and nothing behind a paywall. The only difference between looking and deciding is whether you have signed in — and signing in is free, takes one email, and costs you no money ever.
Looking
Come look around. You do not have to know anything, make anything, or believe anything. Look at the thing above, press the button, look at another one. That is the entire requirement.
Nothing on this page asks for your email and nothing on it is behind a payment.
Deciding
An account exists for one reason: so that one person gets one vote. It is not a membership, a tier, or a badge, and having given money does not get you more of it than having given nothing.
- Vote on what the money builds first — by secret ballot
- Say what you would realistically pay for a night
- Put forward what you think should happen next
- Keep what you make in the studio across devices
A note on the word "church"
We use it the way people use it about a room where something matters to everybody in it, not as a claim about tax status. Brokehella is not a registered religious organisation and is not a 501(c)(3). Nothing given here is tax deductible, and if that ever changes it will be on the Trust Center with the date it changed and the paperwork behind it — not in a sentence like this one.
How looking turns into a night
The gallery is not separate from the festival. It is the front of the same thing.
- You find something, or someone, you would cross town for.
- You vote. One person, one vote, whatever you have given.
- You say what you would realistically pay. Nothing is charged.
- We publish what the night would actually cost.
- If enough people want the same thing at a price that covers it, it happens.
- If not, it does not, and nobody is out any money.
- Afterwards the receipts go up, and the night becomes something you can check.