Clemens Apprich There is no media activism without a collective enunciation. In this sense, media activism, if taken seriously, is not simply defined by an aestheticisation of politics, but rather by a politicisation of aesthetics (cf. Benjamin 2008). As Walter Benjamin famously noted, the integrati...

Virtuelles Sit-In

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kaaphen (21 mars 2016)

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Daniel Becker Virtuelle Sit-ins (auch: Online-Demonstrationen) sind eine Form des electronic civil disobedience, die in Computernetzwerken wie dem Internet praktiziert werden. In Anlehnung an die Sit-ins/Sitzstreiks und auch Bed-ins der amerikanische Bürgerrechtsbewegung der 1960er Jahre stellen sie...

Duran Adam – Standing Man [in Bearbeitung]

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kaaphen (21 mars 2016)

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Christoph Scheurle Am 18. Juni 2013 stellt sich der türkische Tänzer und Choreograf Erdem Gündüz für sechs Stunden auf den Taksim-Platz der türkischen Metropole Istanbul und schaut unverwandt die türkische Fahne und das überlebensgroße Porträt des Staatsgründers Mustafa Kemal Atatürk an (Abb. I). An...

Anti-Gesichtserkennungsmasken

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kaaphen (13 janv. 2016)

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Alexandra Waligorski Seit den Terroranschlägen vom 11. September 2001 wird automatisierte Gesichtserkennung zunehmend als Prävention zur Ortung sogenannter faces of terror propagiert. Im Zusammenspiel mit flächendeckenden Videoaufzeichnungen ist facial recognition zu einer omnipräsenten Überwachungs...

Silence (Aernout Mik)

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kaaphen (13 janv. 2016)

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Vega Tescari In 2014 talking about his work during an interview with Marc-Christoph Wagner, Dutch artist Aernout Mik (1962) stressed his belief in an image that is “sharper, much sharper” with no sound. Thanks to this fact, one can be at the same time “inside the image” while keeping “an outside pos...

Formen des Umweltaktivismus seit 1970

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kaaphen (13 janv. 2016)

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Henning Arnecke Der moderne Umweltaktivismus verfügt über ein sehr breites motiv- und ideengeschichtliches Spektrum, insbesondere der globale Betrachtungshorizont und das Engagement vor Ort fallen auf. „Think globally, act locally“ – die Devise von Friends of the Earth, eines 1969 gegründeten Netzwe...

Der fossile Vogel

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kaaphen (13 janv. 2016)

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Anna-Katharina Wöbse Der verölte Vogel als Symbol eines offenbar tief gestörten Mensch-Natur-Verhältnisses erscheint kurz nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg erstmals in der Öffentlichkeit: Als der Leiter der Helgoländer Vogelwarte, Hugo Weigold, sterbende Seevögel am Strand findet, kann er sich zunächst nich...

Urban Gardening

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kaaphen (13 janv. 2016)

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Regina Foschiova Urban gardening aka Guerilla gardening is a kind of gardening that takes place in cities and towns, on grounds which by law do not belong to the people who practice the gardening. Usually places such as deserted public sites or even private properties are used for practicing urban g...

The Colour White: Damas de Blanco

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kaaphen (13 janv. 2016)

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Andreas Beer The colour white has a wide spectrum of metaphoric and allegoric situational usages. In European, Judeo-Christian societies and those influenced by them– e.g. via (cultural) imperialism –white is usually connected with the light and breath of the Holy Spirit and thus regarded as being c...

Surveillance / Counter-Surveillance

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kaaphen (13 janv. 2016)

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Jens Kabisch Surveillance The meaning of surveillance can differ insofar as it describes not only the act of »observation of a place, person, group, or ongoing activity in order to gather information«, but refers to a social reality that keeps watch over its subjects to oversee and to direct. This i...

Inflatable Objects

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kaaphen (13 janv. 2016)

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Artúr van Balen / Tools for Action “World delegates trying to hammer out a deal on climate change. Mexican protesters are carrying a giant silver inflatable tool down the road. The blow-up hammer was sent by the German based Eclectic Electric Collective!” These were the opening words on 8.12.2010 of...

Scarves

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kaaphen (13 janv. 2016)

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Ruxandra Todosi Scarves form part of a wider vocabulary of aesthetic resistance, which starts with ‘the veil’ as generic garment, and branches into head (hijab, kaffiyah), face (niqab), head‑and‑shoulder or all‑body covers (burqa, jilbab, abaya) depending on cultural and geographical particulars. Li...

Dispersion und Accelerationismus

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kaaphen (13 janv. 2016)

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Antje Krause-Wahl Die Begriffe Dispersion und Accelerationismus benennen Strategien, wie den Strukturen einer neoliberalen, alle Lebensbereiche durchdringenden Ökonomie, begegnet werden kann. In ihnen ist das Internet zentraler Gegenstand der Auseinandersetzung, dessen Distributionen und Akkumulatio...

Bed-in

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kaaphen (30 déc. 2015)

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Anne Röhl The bed-in is a variant of the sit-in and famously originates from John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s two week-long Bed-ins for Peace during their honeymoon. Using the media attention following their wedding on March 20, 1969, they received the international press in their room at the Hilton hotel...

Hologram Protest

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kaaphen (30 déc. 2015)

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Seraphine Meya The hologram Protest is a new form of protest using hologram demonstrations instead of real people. It first appeared in 2014 as a reaction of the artist collective No somos delito to the gag-law in Spain. The gag-law was implemented by the Spanish government to counteract the continu...

Silence=Death-Project

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kaaphen (30 déc. 2015)

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Christian Liclair Unlike any other image, the simple equation SILENCE=DEATH, printed in white Gill Sans capital letters underneath a pink triangle, quickly evolved as ACT UP’s iconic ‘trademark’ and would subsequently become AIDS activism’s visual equivalent – worldwide (fig. 1). Referring to this p...

Piratenfernsehen

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kaaphen (30 déc. 2015)

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Yvonne Schweizer Um 1970 wurde das Fernsehen als ein neuer Ausstellungsort für die Künste attraktiv. Mit dem Fernsehen verbanden Künstler*innen die Aussicht, eine größere und heterogene Öffentlichkeit fernab des traditionellen Ausstellungsbetriebs zu erreichen. Kunst sollte direkt in die Wohnzimmer...

Suicide Bombers’ Video Testimonies

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kaaphen (30 déc. 2015)

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Verena Straub In April 1985, the 17-year-old Lebanese girl Sana Yusif Muhaydli positioned herself in front of a video camera, reading out loud from a written testimony, “I am the martyr Sana Yusif Muhaydli” (fig. 1). She continues, “I am 17 years old, from the South, from the occupied and oppressed...

Anonymity / Stealth

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kaaphen (22 déc. 2015)

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Toni Pape On October 2011 the American cable channel Showtime aired an episode of its award-winning series Homeland, in which the protagonist Carrie Mathison (Claire Danes) visits a Syrian refugee camp near the Lebanese border. The CIA agent Mathison and her colleagues move through a filmset in whic...

A Performative Exhibition: Strijd ∞

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kaaphen (3 déc. 2015)

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Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes, Ezra Benus, Tamara Breugelmans, Sepp Eckenhaussen, Astrid Kerchman, Emily Rhodes, Jeroen de Smalen, Frederike Sperling Contemporary art at times intervenes directly at crucial times of protest or historical change. The ways in which it accomplishes this are as diverse as th...

Guy Fawkes Mask

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kaaphen (3 déc. 2015)

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Andreas Beer In 2008, the group Anonymous protested against what they perceived as internet censorship, gathering in front of Scientology centres in several countries. Many protesters donned a specific mask, which since then has variably been called the Anonymous-, Occupy- or Guy-Fawkes-mask: a whit...

Multitude

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kaaphen (3 déc. 2015)

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Jacopo Galimberti In Thomas Hobbes’ books Leviathan and De Cive the notion of “multitude” acquired a specific philosophical meaning. In Hobbes’ texts, a “multitude” of disperse, ruthless individuals with no rights and laws need to reduce their will to one, submitting themselves to a sovereign who wi...

Armchair Activist

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kaaphen (3 déc. 2015)

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Moritz Queisner Fig. 1: Evan Roth & Free Art and Technology Lab, Occupy the Internet!, 2012. http://fffff.at/occupy-the-internet/ Die Browser-Extension Occupy the Internet! des Künstler- und Aktivist_innen-Kollektivs Free Art and Technology Lab aus dem Jahr 2011, der Hochphase der Occupy-Bewegung, e...

Defacing

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kaaphen (3 déc. 2015)

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Nele De Raedt On the outskirts of Cairo, a man walks past a highly damaged monument showing ex-president Hosni Mubarak, former president Anwar Sadat, Nobel Prize winner Ahmed Zewail, and writer and Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahr. Hosni Mubarak’s face is barely recognisable. His face has been splatte...

Urban Knitting, Yarn Bombing, Guerilla Knitting

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kaaphen (28 oct. 2015)

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Sabine Planka Die Bewegung des Yarn Bombings, auch als Urban Knitting, yarnstorming, Knit Graffiti, urbanes Stricken oder Guerilla Knitting bezeichnet, blickt auf eine junge Existenz zurück: Yarn Bombing hat sich als eine noch relativ neue Kunstform 2005 in Houston (Texas) etabliert, wobei bereits 2...