How to change the world – or at least fight for it http://truthisconcrete.org/interviews Conversations with activists, artists, theorists from places in transition Sun, 09 Sep 2012 15:31:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 “You cannot give instructions to a gigantic inflatable” http://truthisconcrete.org/interviews/you-cannot-give-instructions-to-a-gigantic-inflatable/ http://truthisconcrete.org/interviews/you-cannot-give-instructions-to-a-gigantic-inflatable/#comments Fri, 13 Apr 2012 15:29:18 +0000 Johanna Rainer http://truthisconcrete.org/interviews/?p=128 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.

Berlin,  April 13th, 2012

One of your projects is the creation of inflatables – huge objects filled with air to use at …

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]]> http://truthisconcrete.org/interviews/you-cannot-give-instructions-to-a-gigantic-inflatable/feed/ 0 “The art is to make politics” http://truthisconcrete.org/interviews/the-art-is-to-make-politics/ http://truthisconcrete.org/interviews/the-art-is-to-make-politics/#comments Sun, 25 Mar 2012 11:00:59 +0000 Kira Kirsch http://truthisconcrete.org/interviews/?p=114 A conversation with Vor (Oleg Vorotnikow), leader of the Russian artist/activist group Voina (War) about art, revolution and life in illegality.

Moscow, March 25th, 2012

How would you describe your concrete situation at the moment? What role does Voina play in the field of activism and art? 

The situation …

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]]> http://truthisconcrete.org/interviews/the-art-is-to-make-politics/feed/ 1 “People are hostile because they only can vote every couple of years!” http://truthisconcrete.org/interviews/why-are-people-so-hostile-on-the-internet-because-they-only-can-vote-once-every-couple-of-years/ http://truthisconcrete.org/interviews/why-are-people-so-hostile-on-the-internet-because-they-only-can-vote-once-every-couple-of-years/#comments Mon, 30 Jan 2012 11:48:24 +0000 Florian Malzacher http://truthisconcrete.org/interviews/?p=69 A conversation with the writer David van Reybrouck about populism, the renovation of democracy, and the limits of art as a political tool.

Brussels, 30 January 2012

Our “Truth is concrete” project raises the question of the usefulness of art. And the question if – as Geert Wilders infamously stated …

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]]> http://truthisconcrete.org/interviews/why-are-people-so-hostile-on-the-internet-because-they-only-can-vote-once-every-couple-of-years/feed/ 0 “Real change needs massive support. Art affects only a minority” http://truthisconcrete.org/interviews/real-change-needs-massive-support-art-affects-only-a-minority-2/ http://truthisconcrete.org/interviews/real-change-needs-massive-support-art-affects-only-a-minority-2/#comments Fri, 20 Jan 2012 11:00:51 +0000 Anne Faucheret http://truthisconcrete.org/interviews/?p=98 An interview with the French activists group Jeudi Noir about absurd high rents, squatting’s and how artistic strategies can help to draw attention. 

Paris, December 2011, updated via email in January 

When and with why did you create Jeudi Noir?

Jeudi Noir was founded a few years ago by …

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]]> http://truthisconcrete.org/interviews/real-change-needs-massive-support-art-affects-only-a-minority-2/feed/ 1 “It’s time for art as a tool” http://truthisconcrete.org/interviews/it-is-time-for-art-used-as-a-tool/ http://truthisconcrete.org/interviews/it-is-time-for-art-used-as-a-tool/#comments Sat, 26 Nov 2011 11:20:39 +0000 Florian Malzacher http://truthisconcrete.org/interviews/?p=109 A conversation with the Egyptian theatre director Laila Soliman about the possibilities and limits of theatre to fight  official truths

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Cairo, November 26th, 2011



Two of your recent theatre works deal with the political situation in Egypt: “No time for art” and “Lessons in Revolution”. Both were also presented …

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]]> http://truthisconcrete.org/interviews/it-is-time-for-art-used-as-a-tool/feed/ 0 “A tool to develop oppositional ideas, and not to be afraid” http://truthisconcrete.org/interviews/a-tool-to-develop-oppositional-ideas-and-not-to-be-afraid/ http://truthisconcrete.org/interviews/a-tool-to-develop-oppositional-ideas-and-not-to-be-afraid/#comments Wed, 23 Nov 2011 11:00:24 +0000 Florian Malzacher http://truthisconcrete.org/interviews/?p=45 A conversation with the cyber activist Sofiane Belhaj (Hamadi Kaloutcha) about the role of the Internet in the Tunisian revolution

Tunis, 23 November 2011

Talking to bloggers from Tunis has become a rather popular activity for politicians, curators etc.…

Yes, we have become a classic. I have met prime ministers, …

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]]> http://truthisconcrete.org/interviews/a-tool-to-develop-oppositional-ideas-and-not-to-be-afraid/feed/ 0 “Occupy a museum near you” http://truthisconcrete.org/interviews/occupy-a-museum-near-you/ http://truthisconcrete.org/interviews/occupy-a-museum-near-you/#comments Sun, 06 Nov 2011 11:00:38 +0000 Florian Malzacher http://truthisconcrete.org/interviews/?p=40 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.

New York, 6 November 2011, updated via email in January 2012

You are the initiator of the Occupy Museums group, …

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]]> http://truthisconcrete.org/interviews/occupy-a-museum-near-you/feed/ 1 “We cannot be pessimistic” http://truthisconcrete.org/interviews/we-cannot-be-pessimistic-an-conversation-with-the-urbanists-gabriela-rendon-and-miguel-robles-duran-from-occupy-wall-street-on-the-future-of-the-movement-and-the-relationship-betwee/ http://truthisconcrete.org/interviews/we-cannot-be-pessimistic-an-conversation-with-the-urbanists-gabriela-rendon-and-miguel-robles-duran-from-occupy-wall-street-on-the-future-of-the-movement-and-the-relationship-betwee/#comments Sun, 06 Nov 2011 10:00:52 +0000 Florian Malzacher http://truthisconcrete.org/interviews/?p=33 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.  

New York, 6 November 2011, updated via email in November 2011

Today …

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