How contemporary financial engineering allows multinationals and enterprises to optimize profits, render transactions opaque, maximize anonymity, and circumvent all kinds of regulations hindering the smooth circulation—and ultimately the accumulation—of capital. As such, the present publication can be seen as a tactical manual for the art of evasion.
Category Archive: activism
A look at filmmaking that fight for land rights and against environmental injustice, that resist neocolonial domination, economic and political exploitation, that offer a counterpoint during low intensity or drawn-out armed conflicts, that invent strategies of counter information and representation and that strive for visibility.
Conceived as a reaction to police violence in the U.S.A., A Man Was Lynched by Police Yesterday bears a warning that travels uncomfortably easily through history and space
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In this episode, Carmen and Doma talk about the need for social autonomy, the emergence of new grey zones, police confiscating bots, excellent customer service on darknet markets. And more.
The anti-military tactics and subversive procedures presented in the show range from sabotage to deconstruction of military symbols, from desertion to grassroots resistance against economic macrosystems that feed military culture
Can you make video games about environmental justice or labour? How about religion, the military, gun violence, mass incarceration, immigration or the Anthropocene?
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The Net.art pioneers and media hackers talk about auctioning the votes of U.S. citizens, making DICK NFT and never suffering from nostalgia about the olden days of internet
In this episode, Nora Al-Badri talks about decolonisation, repatriation of cultural artefacts and why she used deepfake to make the directors of important Western museums admit “the truth about imperial plunder—confessing their crimes, speaking about healing, restitution, shame, or art as critical knowledge”
Alana Hunt’s work makes visible the manifestations of Australia’s colonial mindset
The book chronicles the many tactics that ordinary people develop to evade (even if only temporarily) the constraints of algorithmic power and pursue their own political, economic, cultural or social agendas
Whether they are deployed in artistic performances or used as a tool to broadcast political messages, Kisic Aguirre’s works challenge the boundaries of our common understanding of the city and the spaces we share in it
Ressler takes a stand on the problem of increasing carbon emissions and accompanies civil disobedience activities that illuminate the inseparability of environmental issues and sociopolitical as well as economic conditions
the research project explores the affective meanings and implications of drone technologies on warfare, surveillance and protest
The massive efforts of deforestation around the world are the symptoms of colonial and capitalist extractivism often connected with suppression of Indigenous political struggle or mere existence in their sylvan environment
The parallel the artists make between Russian imperialism and demonology is that, in stories of possession, a demon takes control of the body from within. It acts as a parasite that enters a body and gradually consumes all its resources from within…
Artistic freedom is a core human right affected by rising political extremism, economic collapse, threats from digitisation, environmental catastrophes, a global pandemic and the return of war within Europe
In an era of sensationalised news, artists around the world are observing politics and raising awareness on issues like authoritarian regimes, sustainability, climate change, diversity and immigration
Avril Corroon’s new project uses the water collected from ultra damp homes to make visible how the prevalence of damp within homes has become an indicator of social inequalities in the UK
The exhibition presents artistic responses that rethink and reject the constant drive towards exploitative productivity
A sharp overview of artworks that respond to the Anthropocene and its detrimental impact on our world, from scenes of nature decimated by ongoing extinction events and landscapes turned to waste by extraction, to art from marginalised communities most affected by the injustice of climate change
Empowering artists to develop critical practices that explore the socio-political potential of NFT technology
“Wikifémia Révisions” proposes to update our knowledge of women who have shaped our understanding of gender but also to rectify that knowledge by pointing out biases in Wikipedia articles and making the necessary corrections or additions
“If you care about the future of life on the planet, you have several possibilities to continue working as an artist, doing work in relation to and in collaboration with protagonists of progressive social movements. And I’m afraid a classical studio practice is becoming more and more cynical and irrelevant…”
The book maps, critiques, celebrates and historicises cultural activism, from the dual perspective of a commentator (as scholar and writer) and insider (as activist artist)
In 1970, a group of Buddhist monks protested against industrial pollution by traveling to factories with the objective of cursing factory owners to death
Presenting lithium as the new gold, this exhibition explores its history and future, as well as the various myths surrounding electricity, energy and the exploitation of minerals
The artist is continuing his exploration into a future that will probably depend more on DIY and basic survival skills than on the thrills of green, sleek smart cities
How cold is weaponised to control, punish and persecute communities, individuals, in particular racialised people
It seems that design is locked in a system of exploitation and profit, a cycle that fosters inequality and the depletion of natural resources. CAPS LOCK uses clear language and striking visual examples to show how graphic design and capitalism are inextricably linked
From the politics of proxies to space extractivism and the commodification of the commons, including citizenship by investment and the art market, everything indicates that “offshore governance” has become the norm…
But what are the wider effects of whistleblowing as an act of dissent on politics, society, and the arts? How does it contribute to new courses of action, digital tools, and contents?
What happens when you short-circuit capitalism and nationalism? What if freedom of movement, if human rights become nothing but a USP and national border regimes can be bargained away, like in a casino?
The ubiquity of access to information has lulled us into complacency with its flipside: ever more highly technologized forms of surveillance and the overexposure of our personal data
The exhibition in a box features artists, thinkers and researchers whose works unravel the many complex technological, social and ecological systems, both visible and invisible, that surround us
A practical guide for working with data in more ethical, creative and responsible ways
Maggie Kane: On the role of creativity when helping marginalised communities in capitalistic systems
“You have to be creative to operate in this capitalistic system. You have to find all kinds of walk arounds and work with pretty much no assistance from the government”
What make her works so compelling is that they go beyond confronting the audience with uncomfortable ethical questions about the history of museum collections. They also present new counter narratives and new strategies to examine issues of decolonisation
In this manifesto, climate scholar (and saboteur of SUV tyres and coal mines) Andreas Malm makes an impassioned call for the climate movement to escalate its tactics in the face of ecological collapse
The artists who opened their own bank, printed their own money and then bought £1 million worth of predatory debts, which were then blown up in the shadow of London’s financial district
In her talk, art historian and curator Bénédicte Ramade explored the differences between ecological art, environmental art, green art, ecologist art, Anthropocene art, etc.