C04 First Funding Period: Between Opening and Closing: Political Movements and Artistic Intervention
Increasingly, neo-right movements have been appropriating transgressive, subversive, and disruptive artistic strategies of intervention that have been traditionally codified as more left-wing. Against this backdrop, the project posed the theoretically and politically urgent question as to whether progressive and regressive political movements differ not only in their goals but also in their aesthetic forms and artistic interventions. In an attempt to answer this question, this project distinguished between different interventionist logics by considering the interaction between practices of drafting and discarding (SP 1). SP 2 focussed on the field of migrant and anti-racist movements by examining the critical potential of artistic interventions, particularly those operating within the politics of remembrance, with the 19 February Hanau initiative used as an example in this context. SP 3 mapped out the dynamics according to which ostensibly emancipatory frameworks are appropriated and transformed into manifestly regressive practices. Identitarianism and other neo-right movements were examined as being exemplary of such practices.
Doctoral Researcher
Sambojang Ceesay (SP 2 first funding period, 2022-2026)
Sophia Werfel (SP 3 first funding period, 2022-2026)
Student Assistant
Imyeon Han (2022-2023)