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: Social Movements
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?
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
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
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
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!
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
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
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?
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
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
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
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
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