Activism on the Map
dal 18/4/2013 al 18/4/2013
Segnalato da
18/4/2013
Activism on the Map
ICA - Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
The Zone Books Series on Non-Governmental Politics. Talk
Starting in 2007 with Nongovernmental Politics - a collection of critical essays and interviews with prominent activists edited by Michel Feher, with Gaelle Krikorian, and Yates McKee - Zone books has sought to explore the domain of nongovernmental activism, examining the multiple and often conflicting motives and strategies of its practitioners, the privileged sites where they intervene, as well as the aesthetic and performative techniques they develop in order to stage their claims. Eyal Weizman chairs this Friday Salon with Zone authors to discuss activism and nongovernmental politics. Invited speakers are Michel Feher (philosopher and the founding editor of Zone books), Laura Kurgan (architect and Professor at Columbia University), Meg McLagan (documentary filmmaker) and Gaelle Krikorian (scholar and activist). Free admission. Image: The Langenort, a ship rented for use by Women on Waves, with the mobile clinic aboard, in the Netherlands just before embarking to Poland, 2003 (photo: Willem Velthoven. Copyright Women on Waves Foundation).