Each activists and artists in their own way, Édouard Louis, Geoffroy de Lagasnerie and Milo Rau discuss the possibilities and internal contradictions of politically committed art in three short podcasts. What role do documentation and truth play in the face of a boundless concept of art?Is art conceivable as a hermetic space - or deeply enmeshed in social events? What can art contribute to strategies of resistance?

In their first conversation, they problematise the contradictions of the bourgeois regime of representation and distributory logic of the artistic field. A transcript of their conversation will be published with “L’Arche” as a book and constitute the starting point of a staging by Milo Rau together with Édouard Louis.

Moderation: Laura Cappelle

Further conversations:

Sat, 27 Feb, 4 pm
Aesthetics of Resistance - Part II

Sun, 28 Feb, 4 pm
Aesthetics of Resistance - Part III

In the tradition of the conference series »School of Resistance«, lawyer and ECCHR Deputy Legal Director Miriam Saage-Maaß, curator and artist Lara Staal, and political scientist Surer Mohamed join dramaturge Kasia Wojcik to discuss the possibilities, conditionings, and problems of transnational justice. How can debates about global (in)justice be addressed with aesthetic means, but also scientifically and legally? What would a global jurisdiction mean? Are projects such as the »Congo Tribunal« breaking ground in creating utopian possibilities for a new law?

The discussion will be held in English.