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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

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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?

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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?“

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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

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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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

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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?

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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

"Artist Organisations International" (2015) © Lidia Rossner

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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