Jonas Staal
Dutch artist and researcher whose practice treats propaganda, parliamentary form, and political organization as artistic media, constructing alternative infrastructures for stateless and…
Independent publication
Critical Art Theory, Political Art and Artistic Activism
A working index of artists, manifestos, essays and recorded talks at the point where aesthetic practice meets political organising — catalogued, cross-referenced and documented rather than curated into a programme.
Artists
All artists →Practitioners whose work operates as political method.
Artur Żmijewski
Artur Żmijewski is a Polish video artist and curator whose work systematically tests the boundaries of social consensus, subjecting participants to conditions…
Carey Young
British artist working at the intersection of art, law, and corporate culture, whose performances, videos, and installations examine legal and contractual systems…
Essays
All essays →Long-form writing on institutional critique and organised aesthetics.
The Pinky Show and the Pedagogy of Dissent
Between 2005 and 2017, a small stuffed cat named Pinky — gray, handmade, button-eyed — delivered some of the most incisive political…
Precarious Monuments: Thomas Hirschhorn and the Ethics of Public Art
Thomas Hirschhorn builds monuments that are designed to fall apart. Made from cardboard, packing tape, aluminum foil, and plastic sheeting — the…
Real Politics and the Aesthetic Regime
The term “real politics” — or, in its more familiar German form, Realpolitik — has traditionally designated a mode of political reasoning…
Manifestos
All manifestos →Position statements, collective declarations and programmes.
A Punk Prayer — Pussy Riot Closing Statements, 2012
Closing statements delivered by Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Maria Alyokhina, and Yekaterina Samutsevich at the Khamovnichesky District Court, Moscow, on 8 August 2012. The…
The Declaration of the Occupation of New York City — Occupy Wall Street, 2011
Adopted by the New York City General Assembly on 29 September 2011, in Zuccotti Park (Liberty Square), Lower Manhattan. The Declaration was…
Fluxus Manifesto — George Maciunas, 1963
Written by George Maciunas and distributed as a broadsheet in 1963. The Fluxus Manifesto is one of the most concise and aggressive…
Talks
All talks →Recorded lectures, panels and conversations.
Art, Labour, Autonomy — Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, 2016
October 7–8, 2016 · Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven Speakers: Gregory Sholette, Theaster Gates, Hito Steyerl In October 2016, the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven…
Social Choreography — Museu d’Art Contemporani, Barcelona, 2015
February 20–21, 2015 · MACBA, Barcelona Speakers: Andrew Hewitt, Santiago Sierra, Carey Young In February 2015, the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona…
Who Can Speak? — HKW Berlin, 2018
June 8–10, 2018 · Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin Speakers: Hito Steyerl, Kader Attia, Forensic Architecture Over three days in June…
Handbook
Open the handbook →A Handbook for Artistic Strategies in Real Politics — reconstructed entry by entry from the original published material, each one a single tactic set down in plain language.