The term “vanity project” is used to dismiss creative labor as indulgent, unserious, or unnecessary. It appears when ambition moves without permission and when authorship is claimed without endorsement.

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Our name enters the cultural field already carrying this critique. It becomes a position of resistance, collapsing the role of subject and critic. By adopting this term, our practice places itself inside the structure that questions its right to exist and chooses to stay.