Category Archives: taktika/tactics

European Cultural Foundation – Idea Camp open call

Posted on June 10, 2014 by ellenpolus

We invite you to submit an innovative, daring idea for cross-sectoral collaboration that engages Europeans in re-defining and shaping “public space”. From the applications we receive, we will choose the 50 most viable and innovative ideas. These will be represented … Continue reading →

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Activists move to scupper illegal workers crackdown

Posted on June 5, 2014 by ellenpolus

As raids on illegal workers are launched at hundreds of businesses across the country, campaigners are using leaked government documents to warn those being targeted. The Anti-Raids Network, which obtained the documents, says the government is pusuing a political agenda … Continue reading →

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Még mennyi fasizmus? – Jonas Staal előadása / How much fascism? – lecture by Jonas Staal

Posted on May 31, 2014 by ellenpolus

Jonas Staal gigaprojektjeiben a művészet és a politika összetett viszonyát elemzi, és olyan következtetéseket von le, melyek új fénytörésbe helyezik a demokrácia, az ideológia és a propaganda fogalmait. A rotterdami képzőművész május 23-án Budapestre látogatott, hogy arról beszéljen, miként érhetőek tetten a … Continue reading →

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Valuing Labor in the Arts

Posted on May 30, 2014 by ellenpolus

Shannon Jackson, Director of the Arts Research Center, UC Berkeley When is it okay to work for free? Is it acceptable as long as you’re working with—or for—another artist? What is an artistic service? These are just a few of … Continue reading →

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Protesters Stage Intervention at Guggenheim’s Futurist Exhibition

Posted on May 25, 2014 by ellenpolus

Last night’s protest action at New York’s Guggenheim Museum by the Gulf Ultra Luxury Faction (G.U.L.F.) is the group’s fourth intervention and the latest to raise awareness about the labor conditions on Saadiyat Island in the United Arab Emirates. The group … Continue reading →

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Protesters Urge Guggenheim to Aid Abu Dhabi Workers

Posted on May 25, 2014 by ellenpolus

Protesters critical of the Guggenheim Museum’s planned franchise in Abu Dhabi smuggled artworks into the museum on Saturday evening, placing them in an exhibit of Italian Futurism. The art created by the group, Global Ultra Luxury Faction, known as G.U.L.F., … Continue reading →

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Jonas Staal: Art. Democratism. Propaganda.

Posted on May 24, 2014 by ellenpolus

There is something deeply propagandistic in the disappearance of the notion of propaganda from artistic discourse. The word only resurfaces bluntly to dismiss certain practices as one-dimensional, as pamphletism, or as ideological and doctrinal. In our capitalist-democratic age, art is … Continue reading →

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