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?
Keyword: Representation
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
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
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
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
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!
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
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)
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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