In this edition of The Art of Assembly in cooperation with cultural worker and activist Teodor Celakoski (HR), Artist, activist and former member of the Spanish parliament Marcelo Expósito (ES) and philosopher Athena Athanasiou (GR) give insides in movements in their countries.

In this episode of The Art of Assembly, which took place in April 2022 at brut nordwest, the theatre group andcompany&Co. praises the intelligence of insects and considers renaming itself ANTCOMPANY, while philosopher Eva von Redecker proposes a “revolution for life” in order to escape the prison of capitalism and find new forms of solidarity: Care instead of domination, regeneration instead of utilization, participation instead of exploitation.

In cooperation with Goethe Institute New York, this edition of The Art of Assembly l looks at radical approaches to audiences, turning them from spectators into participants, witnesses, collaborators, and enemies.

David Mulder van der Vegt, who has researched the design of the parliament halls of all 193 member states of the United Nations, reflects on the correspondence between their layout and the type of democratic structure they represent; Markus Miessen proposes the concept of “crossbenching” as a practice of independent individuals acting without mandate, and without having to respond to a pre-supposed set of protocols or consensual arrangements.

Lesungen & Gespräche mit ukrainischen Dichter*innen. Eine Kooperation des Instituts für Sprachkunst der Angewandten in Kooperation mit brut Wien und Literaturhaus Wien. Hier geht es zur Aufzeichnung der zweiten Ausgabe vom 16. Mai 2022. Zu Gast war: Kateryna Kalytko

Lesungen & Gespräche mit ukrainischen Dichter*innen. Eine Kooperation des Instituts für Sprachkunst der Angewandten in Kooperation mit brut Wien und Literaturhaus Wien. Iryna Tsilyk war zu Gast in der 2. Ausgabe der Reihe.

Theater director Milo Rau believes in staging and realistic representation in his plays, while for his tribunals and trials he invented what he calls „symbolic institutions“; the School of Resistance uses theatrical settings but understands itself as an activist, not an artistic project; and the activists Isabelle Fremeaux and Jay Jordan believe: If you truly want to do politics, you have to desert the institution of art and entangle insurrectionary imagination into the everyday life of movements.

Hospitality – with all its seeming generosity – is a complex concept: Who is invited into our societies, our assemblies? What are the relationships between guests and hosts? Is unconditional hospitality possible? The architecture of public space, the infrastructures of coming together, the borders and thresholds around them inform how we come together, what is prevented from happening, what is possible. The 11th edition of The Art of Assembly looks at the physical relations of gatherings, how bodies and objects are organised, how radical concepts of democracy can be represented in space. Architect and researcher Merve Bedir since long researches infrastructures of hospitality and mobility as well of the residue of solidarity in urban and public space. For raumlabor architecture is a tool, in search for a city of possibilities, considering themselves activists, operating within the urban landscape. And for architect and scholar Marina Otero Verzier is concerned with how the work of architects, in coordination with other social and institutional techniques, produces differential spaces that either facilitate or prevent their encounter of bodies. 

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Multitude is a „multiplicity of singularities acting together“ (Antonio Negri/Michael Hardt), „the many, seen as being many“ (Paolo Virno): a network that is neither homogeneous nor self-identical. The concept of the multitude is a counterproposal to the idea of the people, a revolutionary subject that is difficult to grasp or to define – and has been both praised and criticized for this openness. The 10th edition of The Art of Assembly looks at the role of the assembly as a tool and strategy for the multitude to make decisions and to communicate. Political theorist Antonio Negri revisits the concept he – together with Michael Hardt – popularized in the earl 2000s while climate activist Anna Clara Basilicò looks at its potential for current movements.

 

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Ahmed Al-Nawas, Nora Sternfeld, Sarah Waterfeld / Staub zu Glitzer & Florian Malzacher discuss gentrification, occupying institutions like museums or theaters and share their experience with various projects and their research as well.