A conversation with Artúr van Balen and Verena Meyer of the eclectic electric collective about inflatables as tools in strikes and the concept of tactical frivolity.
“You cannot give instructions to a gigantic inflatable”
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“The art is to make politics”
A conversation with Vor (Oleg Vorotnikow), leader of the Russian artist/activist group Voina (War) about art, revolution and life in illegality.
“People are hostile because they only can vote every couple of years!”
A conversation with the writer David van Reybrouck about populism, the renovation of democracy, and the limits of art as a political tool.
“Real change needs massive support. Art affects only a minority”
An interview with the French activists group Jeudi Noir about absurd high rents, squatting’s and how artistic strategies can help to draw attention.
“It’s time for art as a tool”
A conversation with the Egyptian theatre director Laila Soliman about the possibilities and limits of theatre to fight official truths .
“A tool to develop oppositional ideas, and not to be afraid”
A conversation with the cyber activist Sofiane Belhaj (Hamadi Kaloutcha) about the role of the Internet in the Tunisian revolution
“Occupy a museum near you”
A conversation with the artist Noah Fischer, initiator of Occupy Museum New York, about how the 1 per cent controls what the 99 per cent gets to see as art.
“We cannot be pessimistic”
A conversation with the urbanists Gabriela Rendon and Miguel Robles-Durán from Occupy Wall Street on the future of the movement and the relationship between media images of tents and the concrete outreach in all parts of society.