“Let’s Talk About … Anti-Democratic, Anti-Queer, Misogynist, Antisemitic, Right-Wing Spaces and Their Counter-Movements”
OnCurating magazine launches the latest issue 62: “Let’s Talk About … Anti-Democratic, Anti-Queer, Misogynist, Antisemitic, Right-Wing Spaces and Their Counter-Movements”.
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Launch in: Kassel October 22, 6pm / Stuttgart November 5, 6pm / Berlin November 28, 7pm
Editors: Michaela Conen, Daniel Laufer, Dorothee Richter
There is a global movement towards authoritarian, patriarchal ideologies that are misogynistic, queerphobic, xenophobic and, last but not least, antisemitic. This involves resorting to strange, ideologically charged, twisted narratives that ignore differentiations, contradictions and historical events—fuelled by algorithms in favour of closed worldviews. This happens not only in authoritarian states, dictatorships and kleptocracies (see Russia), but also—disguised as social movements—in neoliberal democracies. The tolerance of ambiguity called for by Nathan Sznaider, i.e. the recognition and endurance of contradictions, has largely been lost in the process. We would therefore like to leave the camp debates in art and culture behind us and present intellectual, intercultural artistic and curatorial positions in a series of panels.
With this issue, we want to look for some missing links in the history of cultural developments and hopefully show historical developments and contradictions, removed from the simplifying theory in which right- and left-wing tendencies are seen as being similar. One has to look into the historical connections and alliances carefully.
With contributions by: Dagim Abebe (on Wendimagegn Belete); Inke Arns; Artists at Risk; Jonny Bix Bongers; Jutta Ditfurth; Fabienne Dubs and Jana Kurth (on Maria Eichhorn); Michaela Dudley; Sergio Edelsztein; Ulrich Gutmair (on Hamza Howidy), Ana Hoffner; Leon Kahane; Hadas Kedar (on Khader Oshah); Veronika Kracher; Daniel Laufer (on Nir Evron, Omer Krieger and Ariel Reichman); Ahmad Mansour; Oliver Marchart; Michaela Melián; Ruth Patir; Doron Rabinovici; Dorothee Richter (on a project curated by Elena Levi, Ronald Kolb, Dorothee Richter, Rotem Ruff, Maayan Sheleff and Hillit Zwick); Maria Sorensen; Nora Sternfeld; Simon Strick; Klaus Theweleit; Stephan Trüby
