Resistance: Aesthetic and Political Perspectives

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