Since the Mesopotamian hydrotechnologists, who specialised in irrigation systems, water has been harnessed for many different purposes (such as mills,… Read more ELISABETH VON SAMSONOW ° The Partition. Plain Water or Essence of Life?
Keyword: Activism
PEDRO LASCH ° Collective Citizenship. What Are We Before We Are Naturalized?
For the last twenty years Pedro Lasch has been staging experiments in everyday life with a set of mirror masks… Read more PEDRO LASCH ° Collective Citizenship. What Are We Before We Are Naturalized?
ATHENA ATHANASIOU ° Shifting the Conditions of Possibility
What do we lose when we win? What do we win when we lose? Such questioning involves the collective work… Read more ATHENA ATHANASIOU ° Shifting the Conditions of Possibility
CHANTAL MOUFFE ° Towards an Agonistic Conception of Assembly
While having sympathy for activist movements like OWS, the Spanish Indignados or the French Nuit Debuit, political theorist Chantal Mouffe… Read more CHANTAL MOUFFE ° Towards an Agonistic Conception of Assembly
CORINA STAN ° On Tact as a Political Category
The Refugee Tales walk is a political and aesthetic project inspired by the Canterbury Tales that calls for an end to indefinite… Read more CORINA STAN ° On Tact as a Political Category
REYHAN ŞAHIN aka LADY BITCH RAY ° Siktir lan amına Germany, Bend Over!
As Lady Bitch Ray, Reyhan Şahin pioneered feminist sexualised German rap in a clearly male-dominated hip-hop scene. As an Alevi… Read more REYHAN ŞAHIN aka LADY BITCH RAY ° Siktir lan amına Germany, Bend Over!
EVA VON REDECKER ° The Assembly is dead
The Assembly is dead. It rests on an ableist appeal to mobilization. It celebrates human representation when even the most… Read more EVA VON REDECKER ° The Assembly is dead
MADLYN SAUER ° The NSU-Tribunals: Without Law, but with Justice
When in May 2017 the action alliance ‘Unraveling the NSU-Complex‘ held their first self-organized Tribunal at the Schauspiel Cologne parallel… Read more MADLYN SAUER ° The NSU-Tribunals: Without Law, but with Justice
ISABELLE FREMEAUX & JAY JORDAN / LABOFII ° Compos(t)ing Together to actually do shit!
The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination (Labofii) has brought artists and activists together to co-design and deploy forms of creative disobedience… Read more ISABELLE FREMEAUX & JAY JORDAN / LABOFII ° Compos(t)ing Together to actually do shit!
LISA ITO-TAPANG ° On Trial. The Performance of Justice
This talk threads through different historic people’s tribunals in the Philippines and by Filipino compatriots abroad against state terrorism and… Read more LISA ITO-TAPANG ° On Trial. The Performance of Justice
MIRIAM IBRAHIM ° A Personal Insight. Deconstructing Toxic Structures in Theatre
“Racism and structural racism are parts of my everyday life as an artist. They have shaped me and my work… Read more MIRIAM IBRAHIM ° A Personal Insight. Deconstructing Toxic Structures in Theatre
Z. BLACE ° Queering Sport (Events)
It is 40 years since the first ‘GayOlympicGames’ in San Francisco, the first global attempt to innovate sport events for… Read more Z. BLACE ° Queering Sport (Events)
TEODOR CELAKOSKI ° Možemo! Step by Step
The presentation will demonstrate the trajectory of a progressive political project taking place in Zagreb and Croatia. This trajectory could… Read more TEODOR CELAKOSKI ° Možemo! Step by Step
MARCELO EXPÓSITO ° The (Forever Postponed) Dream of a Real Democracy
The official political discourses persist in glimpsing the way out of the crisis after each new crisis experienced during the… Read more MARCELO EXPÓSITO ° The (Forever Postponed) Dream of a Real Democracy
TANIA BRUGUERA ° Truth or Dare
Artist and activist Tania Bruguera has always challenged her audience to become active participants not only in her work but… Read more TANIA BRUGUERA ° Truth or Dare
MILO RAU ° From Symbolic Institutions to Microecologies
Milo Rau believes in staging and realistic representation in his theatre plays, while for his tribunals and trials or the… Read more MILO RAU ° From Symbolic Institutions to Microecologies
JUDITH BUTLER ° Where are We Now? Assembly, Care, and Connection
We might have expected the pandemic to shut down popular assemblies, since they have traditionally presumed access to shared space. … Read more JUDITH BUTLER ° Where are We Now? Assembly, Care, and Connection
SARAH WATERFELD / STAUB ZU GLITZER ° Art After All
B6112 is an anti-capitalist, queer-feminist, anti-racist, transmedial theatre production by the artist collective Staub zu Glitzer (dust to glitter). It… Read more SARAH WATERFELD / STAUB ZU GLITZER ° Art After All
MAX HAIVEN ° The Ghosts of Occupy. Notes on a Haunted Decade, in the Spirit of David Graeber?
What are the afterlives of the Occupy Movement, now ten years on? On the one hand, groups and tendencies that… Read more MAX HAIVEN ° The Ghosts of Occupy. Notes on a Haunted Decade, in the Spirit of David Graeber?
JODI DEAN ° Which Side is the Freedom Side?
In the United States, the long March of 2020 came to an end on May 26 when protests against the… Read more JODI DEAN ° Which Side is the Freedom Side?
FABIO CERVI ° Listening Back
Earshot is the world’s first not-for-profit organisation to develop a specialised field of audio forensics for open-source investigations. With cutting-edge… Read more FABIO CERVI ° Listening Back
ATIYYAH KHAN ° How Jazz Musicians Fought Against Apartheid
Jazz in South Africa played a huge role in mobilising communities and unconventional venues during apartheid, creating spaces of political… Read more ATIYYAH KHAN ° How Jazz Musicians Fought Against Apartheid
OLIVER RESSLER ° Voices to Reckon with
Assemblies provide a crucial platform for direct decision-making in any attempt to make societies more inclusive and democratic, more just… Read more OLIVER RESSLER ° Voices to Reckon with
JONAS STAAL ° Art/Assemblism
Assemblism describes the visual morphologies that emerge from the practice of “performative assembly “in popular mass movements, as termed by… Read more JONAS STAAL ° Art/Assemblism
ALIA MOSSALLAM ° To Chant the Worlds Away. The Anatomy of the 2011 Revolution
thbat. Ithbat can be translated as ‘stand still’, ‘steady’ and ‘unshaken’. It was one of the newer chants that were… Read more ALIA MOSSALLAM ° To Chant the Worlds Away. The Anatomy of the 2011 Revolution
CLAUDIA BOSSE ° Assemble in Choirs
Choir is also a gathering of different interests that approach each other over a period of time, negotiating their differences,… Read more CLAUDIA BOSSE ° Assemble in Choirs
THE CHURCH OF STOP SHOPPING ° Singing Toward Assembly
The Stop Shopping Choir has been exploring the shape and time of song for twenty years- in movement building, direct… Read more THE CHURCH OF STOP SHOPPING ° Singing Toward Assembly
DIE VIELEN ° We Are Many
With the growing self-confidence of various far-right parties in Europe, the attacks against artistic freedom have also become more massive… Read more DIE VIELEN ° We Are Many
EDUARD FREUDMANN & GIN MÜLLER ° Schandwache.Vigil of Disgrace
The Schandwache (Vigil of Disgrace) took place in October 2020 at the monument to the former mayor of Vienna Karl… Read more EDUARD FREUDMANN & GIN MÜLLER ° Schandwache.Vigil of Disgrace
SIBYLLE PETERS ° Reassembling Humanz & Other Animals
In 2019 Sibylle Peters devised a project called Animals of Manchester (including humanz) for which she tried to install a… Read more SIBYLLE PETERS ° Reassembling Humanz & Other Animals