The protests that spread across the globe most recently, such as the ones in Chile, Hong Kong, Beirut, Fridays for Future, stand in a long tradition of resistance movements that span the realms of politics and aesthetics from disputes about the ‘right to resist’ to actual revolts and revolutions, from the uprising of workers to the general strike, from barricades to protests to artistic activism.
What are the limits and potentials of the relation between resistance, politics, and aesthetics from different perspectives, spanning political theory, philosophy, aesthetics and visual arts, and curatorial studies, literature and literary theory?
9:45h INTRODUCTION
Oliver Marchart, Wien / Nassima Sahraoui, Frankfurt:
Resistant Perspectives
HISTORY & POLITICS OF RESISTANCE
10-11h Tom Vandeputte, Amsterdam/Hannover:
Pessimism and the Political
11-12h Nassima Sahraoui, Frankfurt:
Time to Resist. A Glimpse into the History of Ideas
Coffee Break
12:30-13:30h Mauricio González Rozo, Frankfurt:
Political Difference and Res(is)tance: On “The Dance of the Remaining”
Lunch
THE RESISTANCE OF AESTHETICS
15-16h Oliver Marchart, Vienna:
Conflictual Aesthetics
16-17h Sara Alonso Gómez, Bern: Artistic Disobedience in Global Times: Rethinking Strategies, Operations, Processes
Coffee Break
THE ACTUALITY OF RESISTANCE
17:30-18:30h Final Discussion “Resistance Today?”
19-20:30h KEYNOTE
Howard Caygill, London: Escalating Resistance
Organised by Oliver Marchart, Politische Theorie, University of Vienna and Nassima Sahraoi