You are warmly invited to join us next Thursday for the online symposium
"Critical Art vs. Prank Politics: creative tactics for post-moral
paradigms"
Attendance is free, but please sign up here:
https://cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/form/view/3d60BozOhQLPQDmBsksxqNUyHrH9lYh921buh3XlYGs/
The link to the event as well as a detailed programme will be sent out
closer to the date.
Very best,
Dani Ploeger
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Critical Art vs. Prank Politics
creative tactics for post-moral paradigms
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online-symposium
Thursday 8 May 2025, 15:00-17:30 CET
Contributors: Aram Bartholl, Francis Hunger, Nora Nora O'Murchú, Dani
Ploeger, Hito Steyerl,
Florian Weigl
In February, Benjamin Netanyahu presented a gold plated pager device to
Donald Trump, in reference of last year’s Mossad attack on suspected
Hezbollah members, using explosive pagers. Not only did this gift mark
another step in a seemingly escalating sequence of official
glorifications of acts of state-sanctioned violence that are legally
questionable at best (the United Nations Human Rights Office denounced
the attack as a “terrifying violation of international law”). Its form
also suggests that representatives of nation states in the Global North
are shifting their previous focus on keeping up the appearances of an
enlightened moral high-ground towards a strategy of prank-like
utterances that blatantly display a politics of obscene violence that
accompanies globalized power.
The hyperbolic representation and aestheticization of political
transgression to expose the perverse implications and undercurrents of
hegemonic power have long been a prominent tactic in critical art
practices. Now that this approach has been co-opted by the
representatives of power themselves, thus normalizing the public display
of violent excesses, what artistic and critical tactics – if any – might
still have the potential to raise moral concerns and motivate
resistance?
Critical Art vs. Prank Politics is a one-day online symposium organized
by Dani Ploeger, Professor of Performance and Technology at the
University of Music and Theatre Munich in collaboration with V2_Lab for
the unstable media.
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Prof. Dr. Dani Ploeger
Professor of Performance and Technology, University of Music and Theatre
Munich
Website: www.daniploeger.org
Book: https://www.triarchypress.net/deserted.html
Current research:
Rojava Center for Democratic Technologies: https://t.me/rojavatech
Disobedient Devices: https://www.disobedientdevices.org/
Destructive Circuits: https://v2.nl/publications/destructive-circuits
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