This book offers a first report on the activities of the Cercle d’art des travailleurs de plantation congolaise (CATPC), an association based in Lusanga, in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

CATPC brings together a unique gathering of individuals—along with its members and partner institutions that are engaged in dialogue with it—and attempts to rethink postcolonial power relations within the global art world. Initiated in 2014 by Renzo Martens, an Amsterdam-based artist whose radical and controversial practice feeds into many current debates, and René Ngongo, a Kinshasa-based biologist and environmental activist, this cooperative continues to develop independently and redefine the relations between art, agriculture, industry, and value creation.

CATPC makes art to generate global awareness about the historic and present-day position of plantation workers. With their art, they generate the means necessary to turn depleted plantations back into forests for the benefit of the community, providing local food security, increasing biodiversity, and mitigating global climate change.

The collective currently comprises twenty members. The membership is not static: besides the group of founding members, there is a group of recent members as well as interns.

The publication **CATPC—Cercle d’art des travailleurs de plantation congolaise / Congolese Plantation Workers Art League** is part of an artistic research project initiated by Renzo Martens, affiliated as a researcher at KASK/School of Arts of University College Ghent, from 2012 to 2016.