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?
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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