Institutions and Resistance – Alliances for Art at Risk
Online, free and streamed live
Fri, February 11, 2022 5:00 pm – Sat, February 12, 2022 9:30 pm CET
- Location
- Online
- Language
- English
– The symposium is only available in English and without subtitles –
The »Institutions and Resistance - Alliances for Art at Risk« symposium brings together activists, artists of all genres, and representatives of institutions to resist the »Threats and Risks« faced by art, free creativity and thought and imagine alliances to strengthen the field in the turbulent global predicament.
Where would you go if the world fell apart? What if your colleges and museums were hijacked? Militias and mafias ruled? Your friends and colleagues were hunted or killed?
This is not a test. It is a reality, right now, in several regions of the world. Its horrific face was vanquished in western Europe only 77 years ago. Will we see it again?
Institutions and Resistance - Alliances for Art at Risk is a two-day symposium on resistance and change, and how cultural institutions can be active agents in countering inegalitarian, anti-democratic, authoritarian and eco-destructive forces. New alliances, programmes and concrete policies are being sought to be imagined, conceived or developed, from a local to a transnational level, together with activists and movements. How can these alliances be activated in times of crises to resist or create pressure on governments, corporations and other power-brokers?
New alliances and forms of resistance are urgently needed in the times of existential risks. We are entangling manifold threats: societal, economic, ecological and other potentially catastrophic emergencies. Both at home and abroad, these are compounded by problems related to forced migrations and violent persecution in several geopolitical regions - from Afghanistan to Belarus, from Kazakhstan to China, from the Amazon to the African and Far-East Asian tropics.
Participants
Jessica de Abreu, Reza ‘Asung’ Afisina, Masha Alekhina, Barnabás Bencsik, Vivienne Chow, Ehsan Fardjadniya, Ganzeer & the Lazour Brothers, Sarvy Geranpayeh, Mariam Ghani, Elisabet Goula Sardà, Satch Hoyt, Timea Junghaus, Deeyah Khan, Ahmed Mourad Khanfir, Andrei Kureichik, Mohsen Makhmalbāf, Julien McHardy, Nkosilathi Emmanuel Moyo, Qaushiq Mukherjee, Marita Muukkonen, Sara Nabil, Nika Nikulshina, Rahraw Omarzad, Yama Rahimi, Farid Rakun, Teresa Retzer, ruangrupa, Laura Schmidt, Katherine Schofield, Barış Seyitvan, Lucy Shtein, Maksim Shved, Olga Sismanidi, Ivor Stodolsky, Grammo Suspect, Waldemar Tatarczuk, Issa Touma, Hrag Vartanian, Peter Weibel, David Wengrow, Sara Whyatt, Leyla Yenirce, Philipp Ziegler, Gitte Zschoch
Day 1
Day 2
Program
Friday, February 11
5 pm | Welcome |
5:05 pm | Welcome |
Section 1: Threats and Risks
(moderated by Marita Muukkonen and Ivor Stodolsky)
5:25 pm | Short Introduction to Section I |
5:26 pm | Music and Visuals
New album on: |
5:30 pm | Keynote
*Following the arrest of keynote speaker Masha Alekhina of Pussy Riot, her partner Lucy Shtein (Moscow municipal deputy and member of Pussy Riot) will give a statement. This will be followed by extracts from an interview Alekhina gave recently at the CCCB, a partner in the AR-ENSH Network.
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6 pm | Music and Visuals Leyla Yenirce Other compositions on: |
6:05 pm | Statements |
6:30 pm | Panel Discussion |
7:45 pm | Documentary play Play in full length on: |
Saturday, February 12
4 pm | Welcome |
Section 2: Institutions as Resistance
(moderated by Vivienne Chow)
4:10 pm | Conversation Reza ‘Asung’ Afisina (Ruangrupa), Farid Rakun (Ruangrupa), Marita Muukkonen (AR) and Ivor Stodolsky (AR) |
4:40 pm | Statements |
4:50 pm | Panel Discussion Timea Junghaus (art historian, curator, executive director European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture), Elisabet Goula Sardà (curator CCCB), Hrag Vartanian (editor-in-chief and co-founder of Hyperallergic, art critic, curator, artist, and lecturer), and Gitte Zschoch (General Secretary ifa – Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen), moderated by Vivienne Chow (Arts and culture journalist) |
5:55 pm | Music and Visuals Leyla Yenirce Other compositions on: |
Section 3: Future Scenarios and Alliances
(moderated by Julien McHardy)
6 pm | Keynote |
7 pm | Panel Discussion |
8:30 pm | Sonic Performance and Visuals |
8:40 pm | Closing words: |
Further video contributions will provoke and enrich the discussion, including statements by Sarvy Geranpayeh, Ehsan Fardjadniya, Mariam Ghani, María Inés Plaza Lazo, Nika Nikulshina, Barış Seyitvan, Waldemar Tatarczuk, and Issa Touma among others.
Parallel to the livestream, we welcome all to the »open air« meet & greet, including full-length versions of the art interventions and DJ set, in the virtual platform gather.town!
In Spring 2022, the agenda of »Institutions and Resistance« will continue in a Working Session. This event will concretize proposals for practical alliances involving further institutional and political actors.
Eligible artist-activists at high risk may apply for AR-Residencies via the Public Call.
»Institutions and Resistance« is a cooperation between the network-institution ARTISTS at RISK (AR) and the ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe as a part of the EU Creative Europe project »Artists at Risk (AR) – A European Network of Safe Havens« (AR-ENSH). Partner institutions include Artists at Risk (AR), Art Veda, Tunis, CCCB, Barcelona, ZKM | Karlsruhe
Event Website
Organized by
Marita Muukkonen and Ivor Stodolsky with Peter Weibel
Teresa Retzer and Philipp Ziegler
Organizing Organization / Institution
ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe
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