“Dark Diplomacy looks at the presumptions and stereotypes people have towards other cultures.”

— Camila Lewandowski, journalist, CBC.

Set against the backdrop of intensifying global polarization, Annabelle Brault, José Cortés, Veronica Mockler, Léah Snider and Vivek Venkatesh co-found BANAL, a collective working through music, image, and performance art. Staging an inquiry into the spectacle of the everyday, BANAL asks how we come to banalize the inhumanity to which we are subjected to.