Dialled In release statement in response to Boiler Room’s acquisition by Superstruct/KKR

Dialled In has issued a statement clarifying its partnership with Boiler Room, following criticism over the streaming platform’s acquisition by Superstruct/KKR.

Published via an Instagram post yesterday (May 1), the UK-based South Asian collective said that “after careful reflection and consultation”, it would “continue with upcoming projects” including its participation in Boiler Room’s London festival in August.

Several artists have dropped out of Boiler Room events since January, when the platform was acquired by Superstruct, over concerns around the European events giant’s ownership by KKR.

KKR, which is the world’s second biggest investment firm, is known to have stakes in a number of controversial organisations, including weapons manufacturers, the Coastal GasLink pipeline and a number of Israeli businesses that operate within the Occupied Palestinian Territories.

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Dialled In has addressed “concerns” overs its work with Boiler Room, which it says is part of a “larger editorial project that has been in development since 2022,” insisting: “We unequivocally condemn these investments and we stand against Israel’s ongoing genocide against Palestinians in besieged Gaza.”

“After deep reflection, we have decided, to proceed with completing our projects,” Dialled In write. “This is in line with our support of the strategic and ethically consistent demands laid out by the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI), a founding member of the largest Palestinian coalition that leads the global Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement.”

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Last month, Boiler Room issued a statement distancing itself from KKR, clarifying that the platform’s “commitment to editorial independence and Palestine has never wavered,” despite its new ownership. “No investor, past or present, has ever influenced our output, this will never change.”

“We do not take these decisions lightly,” Dialled In’s statement continues. “By exiting we would have risked erasing the collective work and trust of a huge number of artists and communities who built these projects. This work was driven by a commitment to spotlight South Asian communities. Dialled In does not profit from these projects.”

You can read Dialled In’s full statement, below.

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