GRWM – in an Attempt to Deoligarchise Georgia

By Salome Berdzenishvili, December 4, 2024

28th October, 2024 2 days after Georgian parliamentary elections How to steal the elections: Georgian edition My naivety did not let me fully believe the game would be so rigged. The data consists of 2,749,674 eligible voters and, somehow, 3,508,294 ballots are claimed by the Election Administration of Georgia to have been cast. From [...]

An In-Humanist Analysis of Contemporary Palestine

By Donatella Della Ratta, October 9, 2024

“To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric,” Theodor Adorno famously declared in a widely cited passage from his Cultural Criticism and Society 1955 essay. This powerful statement by the prominent philosopher, who had to flee Nazi Germany, encapsulates the deep ethical paradox of representing atrocities, even through art. Artistic depictions of pain, as he writes, [...]

Gray Zone of Images

By Lesia Kulchynska, August 28, 2024

“There are rarely good reasons for showing us the images of mutilated victims” Harun Farocki[1] “Those of you who, despite the flood of death images, choose not to bear witness but instead act as mere spectators, beware that you are passing through our bodies, walking over our bodies, and standing on our bodies,”[2] wrote Lebanese [...]

Echoes of War: A Personal Narrative of Conflict and Community Support

By Kseniya Mirharodskaya, July 12, 2024

How does it feel to live in a country while a literal War is going on? I have been asking myself that question since the first day of the full-scale invasion in Ukraine. I was asking that question for the first time when back in 2014 my distant relatives from Donetsk came to stay with [...]

Where art is born. In memoriam of Artur Snitkus

By Karyna Lazaruk, July 11, 2024

Artur Snitkus was an artist, performer, and musician praised as an underground scene icon. In June 2023, he was called to defend Ukrainians from the Russian invasion. On June 7, 2024, he tragically lost his life fighting against the Russian neofascists. Artur died in one of the most intense areas of the frontline, fully embodying [...]

Echoes of Tactical Media – Premiere of CDI-TV on July 10th, 2024

By Geert Lovink, July 8, 2024

On Wednesday July 10, 2024, the Centre for Digital Inquiry (Warwick Uni, UK) will present a livestream, hybrid conversation with Alexandra Barancova, David Garcia and Eric Kluitenberg on the legacies of tactical media since the 1990s, alongside reflections on emergent trajectories today for media aesthetics and activism in pursuit of the common good. Today, we [...]

Workshop – Miscalculating risk: policing technologies in the Netherlands @ Varia, 12.07

By admin, July 4, 2024

Varia is organising a workshop on policing technologies in The Netherlands on the 17th of July. Find more information below or here: https://varia.zone/en/miscalculating-risk.html Date: 12.07.2024 Time: 16:00-18:00 workshop with Sanne Stevens 18:00-19:00 dinner with workshop participants 19:00-20:00 presentation by Jair Schalkwijk Location: Varia (Gouwstraat 3, Rotterdam) Attendance is free. It is possible to join both moments, [...]

Stedelijk Museum Fails to Loan Artwork by Ahmet Öğüt to Protect Students in Amsterdam

By the Not Surprised Collective, June 28, 2024

The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam refuses to mobilize the artwork Bakunin’s Barricade to protect protesting Amsterdam students. A group of cultural workers, artists, and activists made a loan request in the spirit of the work and in line with contractual agreements. With this statement, we, the collective, share our perspective on the chain of events and [...]

Witnessing the Student Intifada – On Palestine, Solidarity and Cultural Boycotts

By Alina Lupu, June 3, 2024

This article is published on metropolis m. Find the originial article here: https://metropolism.com/nl/feature/witnessing-the-student-intifada-on-palestine-solidarity-and-cultural-boycotts/ Alina Lupu is heavily involved in the Gaza protests in several cities across the Netherlands. In The Hague, she participates as a member of the KABK student union, while in Amsterdam, she actively takes part in the protests. She writes a report [...]

Palestine Cinema Days

By Sepp Eckenhaussen, November 2, 2023

November 2, 2023 @ 8:00 pm - 11:45 pm - Palestine Cinema Days, a festival spread across various cinemas in the West Bank and Gaza, was due to start their tenth edition this week. Instead, the organizers are now releasing the film material free of copyright so that the movies can be screened around the world on the same day. November 2 was chosen because [...]