The Whanganui stream in Aotearoa (New Zealand) is the first river worldwide that was granted legal personhood – a victory… Read more ERENA RANGIMARIE OMAKI RANSFIELD RHÖSE ° The Water Inside Us
Keyword: Assembly
EDSON KRENAK NAKNANUK ° Cosmic Kinship. Indigenous Perspectives on Ownership and the Rights of Nature
How do indigenous legal imagination and ontology redefine the concept of ownership, not just for the Amazon, but for all… Read more EDSON KRENAK NAKNANUK ° Cosmic Kinship. Indigenous Perspectives on Ownership and the Rights of Nature
KATHRIN RÖGGLA ° Writing the Water
For some time now, the impression has been created that theatre must return to its agitative forms. For Kathrin Röggla,… Read more KATHRIN RÖGGLA ° Writing the Water
ELISABETH VON SAMSONOW ° The Partition. Plain Water or Essence of Life?
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?
JOANNA WARSZA ° Unfriendly Takeover. The Fabrication of Right-Wing Contemporary Art in Poland
Right-wing contemporary art is almost non-existent. It has to be invented, fabricated and cultivated. Core values inherent in contemporary art… Read more JOANNA WARSZA ° Unfriendly Takeover. The Fabrication of Right-Wing Contemporary Art in Poland
THOMAS KRÜGER * Civic Education as Democratic Assembly
Having been the president of the Federal Agency for Civic Education (under the auspices of the Federal Ministry of the… Read more THOMAS KRÜGER * Civic Education as Democratic Assembly
AMELIE DEUFLHARD – Solidary Space-Taking as Artistic Method
Kampnagel, a cultural centre in Hamburg, has been defying direct and indirect attacks from the right with a variety of… Read more AMELIE DEUFLHARD – Solidary Space-Taking as Artistic Method
OLIVER FRLJIĆ ° What Is Left to Be Right
Currently, there seems to be little divergence among parliamentary parties in Germany regarding migration policies. While phrases like ‘enhanced border… Read more OLIVER FRLJIĆ ° What Is Left to Be Right
JULIA WISSERT ° Get Comfortable with the Uncomfortable
What is the role of the theatre in a time when the world is falling apart? Looking at current political… Read more JULIA WISSERT ° Get Comfortable with the Uncomfortable
GLENN BECH I No Longer Recognise Your Authority
How can it be that artists bask in their flaunted queerness, while elsewhere gays are barely allowed out of the… Read more GLENN BECH I No Longer Recognise Your Authority
SAHAR RAHIMI ° „Mummy, What Are the Rules of Theater?“
„Mummy, what are the rules of theater?“ asked my little daughter some days ago, sending me into a dizzying spiral… Read more SAHAR RAHIMI ° „Mummy, What Are the Rules of Theater?“
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?
KENT BYE ° VR Presence & Live Immersive Performance Trends
In his talk Kent Bye reflects on the affordances of different mediums through the perspective of VR presence, and then… Read more KENT BYE ° VR Presence & Live Immersive Performance Trends
AHMET ÖĞÜT ° The Silent University
The Silent University, initiated by Ahmet Öğüt in 2012, is an autonomous platform for academics who cannot share their knowledge… Read more AHMET ÖĞÜT ° The Silent University
ANDCOMPANY&CO. ° The Ant of Assembly
Ants are a „secret world power“ – dumb individually, but supersmart as a collective: a „superorganism“. They make decisions without… Read more ANDCOMPANY&CO. ° The Ant of Assembly
ANN LIV YOUNG ° Coming too Close
The performances of Ann Liv young often rely on irritation and direct confrontation. There is no shelter, especially for the… Read more ANN LIV YOUNG ° Coming too Close
AHMED AL-NAWAS ° Parallel Economies of Thinking Together
Since 2013 Ahmed Al-Nawas has been involved in serval collective paraxis in which the main driving force was the necessity… Read more AHMED AL-NAWAS ° Parallel Economies of Thinking Together
RADHA D’SOUZA ° Crows, Covid and Reflections on Assembling
Drawing on insights from indigenous cultures and everyday practices, D’Souza’s talk focuses on the centrality of assembly for collective life… Read more RADHA D’SOUZA ° Crows, Covid and Reflections on Assembling
SARAH ROTHBERG ° Interfacing as Art
How does an interface distribute power? How does a social arrangement? How to imagine how to create both anew? Sarah… Read more SARAH ROTHBERG ° Interfacing as Art
ANNA CLARA BASILICÒ ° Assemblying for Climate Justice
Assuming the methodological and theoretical frame of the assembly as meant by Negri and Hardt, it is possible to look… Read more ANNA CLARA BASILICÒ ° Assemblying for Climate Justice
ANNE HAHN ° Pogo on the Altar. Punk in the GDR
Punk in the GDR was characterised by a search for freedom and self-assertion that, unlike in neighbouring countries in the… Read more ANNE HAHN ° Pogo on the Altar. Punk in the GDR
NÚRIA GÜELL ° When Morality Becomes Immoral
Núria Güell’s artistic practice continuously challenges moral and legal conventions when, for example, she offers herself as a bride to… Read more NÚRIA GÜELL ° When Morality Becomes Immoral
ANTONIO NEGRI ° The Politics of Multitude
Antonio Negri’s intervention starts from Boltanski and Chiapello’s concept of „artistic critique“, a formula which, in relation to the ’68… Read more ANTONIO NEGRI ° The Politics of Multitude
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
RENZO MARTENS ° Building a World with Critique
Renzo Martens disturbed viewers with videos such as Enjoy Poverty in which he centered himself as a white man and… Read more RENZO MARTENS ° Building a World with Critique
BENJAMIN FOERSTER-BALDENIUS / RAUMLABORBERLIN ° Hospitality as Spacial Practice
Hospitality is first and foremost a social practice and can be situated in any place and become manifest in many… Read more BENJAMIN FOERSTER-BALDENIUS / RAUMLABORBERLIN ° Hospitality as Spacial Practice
CAITLIN FISHER ° Post Play
Drawing on embodied experiences from the football pitch, Fisher uses movement, muscle memory, and narrative to discuss navigating a shifting… Read more CAITLIN FISHER ° Post Play
PHIL COLLINS ° Bring Down the Walls
Bring Down The Walls looks at the prison industrial complex through the lens of house music and nightlife, proposing the dance… Read more PHIL COLLINS ° Bring Down the Walls
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
CLAIRE BISHOP ° Revisiting Participation
It’s ten years since Claire Bishop published Artificial Hells: Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship (Verso, 2012). In anticipation of a reprint… Read more CLAIRE BISHOP ° Revisiting Participation
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!
DAVID MULDER VAN DER VEGT ° The Architecture of Assembly
Parliament is the space where politics literally takes shape. Here, collective decisions take form in a specific setting that organizes… Read more DAVID MULDER VAN DER VEGT ° The Architecture of Assembly
DIDIER ERIBON ° How and When Can We Say „We“? On Social Protest and Political Dissent
Didier Eribon reflects on the construction of a „We“ that wants to be the subject and no longer just the… Read more DIDIER ERIBON ° How and When Can We Say „We“? On Social Protest and Political Dissent
WOLFGANG KALECK ° Juridical and Civil Society Tribunals. The Example of the Congo Tribunal
When discussing new means in the context of human rights, one must also talk about the arts. Art has become… Read more WOLFGANG KALECK ° Juridical and Civil Society Tribunals. The Example of the Congo Tribunal
EDIT KALDOR ° Beyond Control (Learning from Powerlessness)
In the theatrical research project Inventory of Powerlessness (2013-16) hundreds of inhabitants of five European cities: Amsterdam, Poznan, Berlin, Prague… Read more EDIT KALDOR ° Beyond Control (Learning from Powerlessness)
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
INGO NIERMANN ° Army of Love
The Army of Love is a solidarity that offers training, discussions, manuals, and testimonial videos to promote the redistribution of… Read more INGO NIERMANN ° Army of Love
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!
JAAMIL OLAWALE KOSOKO ° American Chameleon. The Living Installments
From the stage, to the living room, to outdoor screenings, to fantasy, to the privacy of one’s own bedroom, dance… Read more JAAMIL OLAWALE KOSOKO ° American Chameleon. The Living Installments
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
MICHAEL GABRIEL ° Stubborn and Independent: The Ultras
The emotional attachment and cultural expressions of football fans shape professional soccer worldwide. Clubs and the fan culture associated with… Read more MICHAEL GABRIEL ° Stubborn and Independent: The Ultras
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)
SATU HERRALA ° Embodying Collective Action
Bodies are containers for life, they exist in the present yet carry the past within. Attuning to one’s body and… Read more SATU HERRALA ° Embodying Collective Action
LOTTE VAN DEN BERG ° Building Conversation
Building Conversation is a dialogical art platform, based in Amsterdam, initiated by Lotte van den Berg and Daan ’t Sas,… Read more LOTTE VAN DEN BERG ° Building Conversation
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
MARKUS MIESSEN ° Crossbenching
“Crossbenching” is a practice of individuals acting without mandate, a conceptual frame that he generated out of the necessity to come… Read more MARKUS MIESSEN ° Crossbenching
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
SCHOOL OF RESISTANCE ° Assembling Political Power
On the weekend of the German federal elections of 2021 IIPM, NTGent, Schauspiel Köln and the School of Political Hope… Read more SCHOOL OF RESISTANCE ° Assembling Political Power
MARINA OTERO VERZIER ° Architectures of Unconditional Hospitality
Architecture, as a biopolitical and normalizing technique, participates in constructing distinctions and categories. The work of architects oozes Cartesianism. It… Read more MARINA OTERO VERZIER ° Architectures of Unconditional Hospitality
MERVE BEDIR ° Hospitality and the Politics of the Floor Table
The form of the table, who sits at the table, and how to sit at the table, as well as… Read more MERVE BEDIR ° Hospitality and the Politics of the Floor Table
NORA STERNFELD ° What is a Radical-Democratic Museum?
Today, we often hear about a “museum of the future”: as a contact zone, arena, forum and platform – perhaps… Read more NORA STERNFELD ° What is a Radical-Democratic Museum?
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?
MICHAEL HARDT ° Strategic Multiplicities
Revolutionary movements in the late 1960s and early 1970s experimented with constructing political multiplicities. In this lecture Michael Hardt puts… Read more MICHAEL HARDT ° Strategic Multiplicities
FLORIAN MALZACHER ° Spheres of Pragmatic Utopias and Radical Imagination. The Art of Assembly
The past decade has been marked not only by numerous activist movements and gatherings but also by a wide range… Read more FLORIAN MALZACHER ° Spheres of Pragmatic Utopias and Radical Imagination. The Art of Assembly
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
DANA YAHALOMI ° Body Next to Body. The Practice of Being Together
To assemble is first and foremost a physical act of being present body next to body. Dana Yahalomi elaborates on… Read more DANA YAHALOMI ° Body Next to Body. The Practice of Being Together
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 MARCHART ° Future Politics / Political Futures. Pre-enacting the Cause for Assembly
Do we assemble for a cause or for reasons? What is the nature of a political cause? What is it… Read more OLIVER MARCHART ° Future Politics / Political Futures. Pre-enacting the Cause for Assembly
BRANDON LABELLE ° On Acoustic Justice
The presentation will pose acoustics as a critical and creative practice, one that assists in contending with dominant regimes of… Read more BRANDON LABELLE ° On Acoustic Justice
XENIA KOGHILAKI ° What a Body Can Do in the Mosh Pit
Moshing is a furious form of crowd dancing usually associated with punk and rock culture. It happens during live music… Read more XENIA KOGHILAKI ° What a Body Can Do in the Mosh Pit
JULIA RAMÍREZ-BLANCO ° Assembly as Performance. The Mass Assemblies of the 15M Movement
Assemblies are normally held on a scale that allows for direct discussion and participation. However, during the Spanish protest camps… Read more JULIA RAMÍREZ-BLANCO ° Assembly as Performance. The Mass Assemblies of the 15M Movement
TINO SEHGAL
Theatres regulate space and time for their audiences and demand collective engagement. Other kinds of venues – like museums or… Read more TINO SEHGAL
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
METTE EDVARDSEN ° Soft Spaces
For the project Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine a group of people dedicate themselves to memorizing a book of… Read more METTE EDVARDSEN ° Soft Spaces
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