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Episode 1: Communizing Publishing with Nick Thoburn

This first episode of the Minor Compositions podcast is a discussion with Nick Thoburn about experimental publishing and communizing media.

Nick Thoburn is Reader in Sociology at the University of Manchester. He writes about publishing, political theory, social movements, and architecture, and is author of "Anti-Book: On the Art and Politics of Radical Publishing" (2016) and "Deleuze, Marx and Politics" (2003).

Nick Thoburn's ideas about political publishing are developed further in the following texts, freely available online:

'Anti-Book: On the Art and Politics of Radical Publishing'
https://manifold.umn.edu/projects/anti-book

'Twitter, Book, Riot: Post-Digital Publishing against Race'
https://researchdestroy.com/Thoburn_TwitterBookRiot.pdf

'A Crisis of Politics and a Crisis of Media Form' - an interview about anti-book publishing
https://bangkokartbookfair.info/co-op/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/OA_White-Fungus_A-CRISIS-OF-POLITICS-AND-A-CRISIS-OF-MEDIA-FORM_-1.pdf

For this episode, as something of a preview to the upcoming publication of Paolo Sollier’s book Kicks, Spits, and Headers. The Autobiographical Reflections of an Accidental Footballer we have a conversation with Gabriel Kuhn about the relationship between radical politics and sports, particularly focusing on his book Soccer Vs. the State: Tackling Football and Radical Politics. Topics covered include the evolving role and visibility of politics in sports, a range of community run and politically oriented clubs, and speculations about which football club Deleuze supported (Liverpool, obviously).

Gabriel Kuhn is a former semi-professional soccer player from Austria who today lives in Sweden as an author, translator, and union organizer. He founded the DIY publishing outfit Alpine Anarchist Productions in the year 2000, has published numerous books with PM Press, and blogs at LeftTwoThree.

Alpine Anarchist Productions: https://www.alpineanarchist.org
Gabriel Kuhn at PM Press: https://blog.pmpress.org/authors-artists-comrades/gabriel-kuhn/
LeftTwoThree: https://lefttwothree.org

Intro / outro music: “Paolo Sollier” by Rabat from “Resta Ribelle”
https://nabatofficial.bandcamp.com/album/resta-ribelle

In this episode we have a conversation with Abigail Susik, about her book “Surrealist Sabotage and the War on Work.” We cover a range of topics including the centrality of work refusal to the history of Surrealism, automatist practices and aesthetic sabotage, the class composition of labor that influenced the beginning of Surrealism, why relationships with Communist Parties are ‘complicated,’ and why sewing machines are sexually dangerous.

Abigail Susik is an art historian who writes about surrealism, work, technology, and protest cultures. Her books include Surrealist Sabotage and the War on Work (2021) and the co-edited volumes: Radical Dreams: Surrealism, Counterculture, Resistance (2022); Surrealism and Film After 1945: Absolutely Modern Mysteries (2021).

Opening / outro music: Gid Tanner - Work Don’t Bother Me (1930), from the collection Hard Time, Good Time & End Time Music : 1923-1936, Cargo Records, 2012

In this episode we have a conversation with Steve Wright, about his book “The Weight of the Printed Word: Text, Context and Militancy in Operaismo.” In it we discuss the role of print production and document work in the history of Italian operaismo and autonomist Marxism. What role did the production of various forms of print material play in the emergence of these politics, and how did they change and develop along with how the movements themselves evolved?

Steve Wright is a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University. He has written widely on operaismo, including Storming Heaven: Class Composition and Struggle in Italian Autonomist Marxism (2002).


Opening / outro music: The Potere Operaio Anthem, as sung by Oreste Scalzone and Comrades

Episode 5: Squatting, Art, and Gentrification with Clarrie Pope and Alan W. Moore

For this episode we have a discussion with Clarrie Pope and Alan W Moore around squatting, art, and gentrification, as well as a range of related topics. The idea is to explore these topics, but coming from different angles, for instance how writing a graphic novel about squatting is different from a personal account or political or academic writing on the same topic. How do these different modes of writing affect the stories that we tell, and how we can communicate with different kinds of people?

Welcome Home was written by sisters Clarrie and Blanche Pope, and is inspired by their experience in squatting and housing struggles, as well Blanche’s time spent working in care homes. They want to give readers insight into the class, race and gender politics involved in both through a humorous look at the way in which these issues affect the minutiae of people's lives.

Alan W. Moore worked as a critic, artist and organizer in NYC for 30 years. He worked with the artists’ group Colab, and co-directed ABC No Rio and the MWF Video Club. He took a PhD in Art History from CUNY in 2000, and published Art Gangs with Autonomedia in 2011. He began to study squatting in Europe in 2009, publishing the zine House Magic (2009-16). He co-edited Making Room: Cultural Production in Occupied Spaces (Other Forms/JoAAP), and wrote Occupation Culture (Autonomedia), both in 2015. In 2022 he published Art Worker, a memoir (JoAAP). He lives in Madrid, and blogs at "Occupations & Properties" and "Art Gangs.”

Opening / Outro song: “Bello e impossibile” by Gianna Nannini

Welcome Home by Clarrie & Blanche Pope: https://www.minorcompositions.info/?p=1047
Occupation Culture: Art & Squatting in the City from Below by Alan W. Moore: https://www.minorcompositions.info/?p=684

Temporary Autonomous Art (October 2021): https://www.taaexhibitions.org/

For this episode we have a discussion with Becky Binns about her recently released book Gee Vaucher: Beyond punk, feminism and the avant-garde. We cover a a range off topics including Gee’s work in relationship with punk and artistic countercultures, as well as the changing historiography of punk and feminism. Does art produced in collective projects or by artists not seeking personal notoriety get lost within the historical narrative? Have the conditions for the production of autonomous art and life vanished, and how we might collectively create them again?

Opening / Outro song: “The Mystic Trumpeter” by EXIT (Recorded at the International Carnival of Experimental Sound, 1972)

Gee Vaucher: Beyond punk, feminism and the avant-garde
https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526147912/

Minor Compositions Podcast Episode 8: After the Internet with Tiziana Terranova

For this episode we have a discussion with Tiziana Terranova about her recently released book After the Internet: Digital Networks between Capital and the Common. We cover a range of topics including the shift from the internet as open network to the rise of corporate platforms, the psychopathologies of digital culture, and capitalism’s need to continually impose scarcity whenever new forms of social cooperation and commoning threaten its dominance over social life. What are the possibilities today for using digital tools to build new forms of commons both inside and against, and outside of the walled gardens of the corporate platform complex?

This discussion is a preview of the “Promoting Commons Presents and Futures Symposium” symposium that planned by the Centre for Commons Organising Values Equalities and Resilience on February 17th, 2023. For more information on that go here: https://www.essex.ac.uk/events/2023/02/17/promoting-commons-presents-and-futures-symposium

Opening / Outro song: “Combat pop” by Lo Stato Sociale (2021)

This episode intersperses a performance by experimental Indonesian doom folk metal band Senyawa (recorded in Folkestone in April 2022) with a discussion with their vocalist and lyricist Rully Shabara. The interview covers topics including his approach to writing lyrics, use of allegory and imagery, and how this has changed over Senyawa’s musical evolution since their formation n in 2010 in Yogyakarta. This episode serves as a preview for the first translation into English of Rully’s lyrics for Senyawa, which will shortly be published by Minor Compositions.

Minor Compositions Podcast Episode 10: Autonomia and Art with Jacopo Galimberti https://fireflyfrequencies.org/podcasts/minor-compositions

This episode is a discussion with Jacopo Galimberi about this book Images of Class: Operaismo, Autonomia and the Visual Arts (1962–1988)

“During the 1960s and 1970s, Workerism and Autonomia were prominent Marxist currents. However, it is rarely acknowledged that these movements inspired many visual artists such as the members of Archizoom, Gordon Matta-Clark and Gianfranco Baruchello.This book focuses on the aesthetic and cultural discourse developed by three generations of militants (including Mario Tronti, Antonio Negri, Bifo and Silvia Federici), and how it was appropriated by artists, architects, graphic designers and architectural historians such as Manfredo Tafuri. Images of Classs signposts key moments of this dialogue, ranging from the drawings published on classe operaia to Potere Operaio’s exhibition in Paris, the Metropolitan Indians’ zines, a feminist art collective who adhered to the Wages for Housework Campaign, and the N group’s experiments with Gestalt theory. Featuring more than 140 images of artworks, many published here for the first time, this volume provides an original perspective on post-war Italian culture and new insights into some of the most influential Marxist movements of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries worldwide” - https://www.versobooks.com/books/4049-images-of-class

Opening / outro music: The Potere Operaio Anthem, as sung by Oreste Scalzone and Comrades

Minor Compositions Podcast Episode 11: Italian Operaismo with Gigi Roggero

This episode of the Minor Compositions podcast is recorded as part of the Ultradependent Public School exhibition at BAK (https://www.bakonline.org/program-item/ultradependent-public-school-2/)
For this episode we are talking with Gigi Roggero about his book Italian Operaismo: Genealogy, History, Method. In this conversation we cover a range of topics including the birth and development of operaismo as a political tendency, the concepts of class composition and political formation, and rethinking how we approach and re-activate radical histories in the present.

“Italian Operaismo provides a clear overview of the central moments in that tendency's development: from the Italian labor movement's crisis of direction in the 1950s, the encounter with the “new forces” within the working class at FIAT and elsewhere in the early 1960s, and the political journals Quaderni rossi and Classe operaia, to the experience of Potere Operaio and other organizations a decade later. Roggero provides a rereading of operaismo that is both salutary and provocative, one that stresses above all the role within it of subjectivity and political engagement, demonstrating the continued relevance of its subversive method as a tool for reworking the categories of radical and revolutionary thought.

Opening / outro music: The Potere Operaio Anthem, as sung by Oreste Scalzone and Comrades

Minor Compositions Podcast Episode 12: The Subhumans & Punk Historiography with Ian Glasper

For this episode we talk with Ian Glasper about his book Silence Is No Reaction: Forty Years of Subhumans. In the conversation we cover broader issues of ‘punk historiography’ and documenting more marginal musical, artistic, and political milieus that one is a part of (rather than falling on or relying about existing dominant narratives). Ian has ben writing about punk since starting his first zine in 1986, switching to writing books in the early 2000s as he grew increasingly frustrated that existing histories of punk tended to focus on the best known and most visible artists, completely neglecting the much wider and vibrant array of bands and musics.

Bio: Ian Glasper is the author of numerous books on the history of punk including Burning Britain: The History of UK Punk 1980-1984 (2004), The Day The Country Died: A History Of Anarcho Punk 1980 – 1984 (2006), Trapped In A Scene: UK Hardcore 1985 – 1989 (2009), and Armed With Anger: How UK Punk Survived The Nineties (2012).

Opening / outro music: The Subhumans, “All Gone Dark” (intro) and “From the Cradle to the Grave" (outro)

Minor Compositions Podcast Episode 13: Up Against the Real with Nadja Millner-Larsen

For this episode we talk with Nadja Millner-Larsen about her book Up Against the Real Black Mask from Art to Action.

“With Up Against the Real, Nadja Millner-Larsen offers the first comprehensive study of the group Black Mask and its acrimonious relationship to the New York art world of the 1960s. Cited as pioneers of now-common protest aesthetics, the group’s members employed incendiary modes of direct action against racism, colonialism, and the museum system. They shut down the Museum of Modern Art, fired blanks during a poetry reading, stormed the Pentagon in an antiwar protest, sprayed cow’s blood at the secretary of state, and dumped garbage into the fountain at Lincoln Center. Black Mask published a Dadaist broadside until 1968, when it changed its name to Up Against the Wall Motherfucker (after line in a poem by Amiri Baraka) and came to classify itself as “a street gang with analysis.” American activist Abbie Hoffman described the group as “the middle-class nightmare . . . an anti-media phenomenon simply because their name could not be printed.”
Bio: Nadja Millner-Larsen is visiting assistant professor in the Experimental Humanities & Social Engagement program at New York University.

Opening / outro music: Refused, “Poetry Written in Gasoline” (from The New Noise Theology)

Minor Compositions Podcast Episode 14: Revolutionary Love & the Deep Commons with Matt York

For this episode we talk with Matt York about his book Love and Revolution: A politics for the Deep Commons

“Based on award-winning research, Love and Revolution brings classical and contemporary anarchist thought into a mutually beneficial dialogue with a global cross-section of ecological, anti-capitalist, feminist and anti-racist activists – discussing real-life examples of the loving-caring relations that underpin many contemporary struggles. ​ Such a (r)evolutionary love is revealed to be a common embodied experience among the activists contributing to this collective vision, manifested as a radical solidarity, as political direct action, as long-term processes of struggle, and as a deeply relational more-than-human ethics. The theory developed in this book is brought to life through the voices of Tom at the G20 protests in Toronto, Maria and her permaculture community in Mexico, Hassan on the streets in Syria, Angelo and his comrades occupying squares in Brazil, Dembe and his affinity group in Kampala, and many more.” .


Open access version of the book can be found here: https://www.deepcommons.net/book-love-and-revolution

Bio: Matt York lectures in political theory and philosophy at University College Cork.

Opening / outro music: Gogol Bordello, “Oh No!” (from Gypsy Punks: Underdog World Strike)

Minor Compositions Podcast Episode 15 Class, Disasters, and Mutual Aid with John Preston and Rhiannon Firth

For this episode we talk with John Preson and Rhiannon Firth about the relationship between class, disasters, and mutual aid. The conversation is formed mainly around re-visiting their 2020 book “Coronavirus, Class and Mutual Aid in the United Kingdom” but branches off to discussing broader issues including nuclear war, live sociology, and conspiracies. 

“This book considers how the UK government’s response to the recent COVID-19 pandemic disadvantages the working class, and how mutual aid, based on anarchist principles, can be used as a force for social change. 

The authors draw on Marxist and anarchist thought in class theory and social movement analysis to demonstrate that the virus and its material and discursive consequences are an active part of continuing class struggle and class interpolation. Preston and Firth examine how plans for quarantine and social isolation systematically work against the needs of the working class, and rely on classed assumptions about how markets and altruism operate. 

In the face of neoliberal methods of dealing with a pandemic, ranging from marketization, disaster capitalism, to a strengthening of the State, Coronavirus, Class and Mutual Aid in the United Kingdom explains how radical alternatives such as social movements and mutual aid can be implemented to better cope with current and future crises.” 

Intro / Outro Music: Dead Kenny G's cover the Dead Kennedys "Kill The Poor” 

Minor Compositions Podcast Episode 16 Sports & the Avant-Garde with Przemysław Strożek 

For this episode we talk with Przemysław Strożek about the relationship between avant-garde arts and sports in the 1920s and 1930s. We discuss two of his books, one as editor: Sport and the European Avant-Garde (1900–1945); and one as sole author: Picturing the Workers’ Olympics and the Spartakiads: Modernist and Avant-Garde Engagement with Sport in Central Europe and the USSR, 1920–1932. What was the role of avant-garde artists in the emergence of working class sports cultures during this period? How did they contribute to the shaping of the politics of mass sporting events such as the Workers’ Olympics? And what might these histories tell about the relationship between sports, politics, and art for today and into the future?

Bio: Przemysław is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Art, Polish Academy of Sciences and Research Associate at the Archive of the Avant-garde in Dresden. He has a PhD habilitation and occupies himself with the history of avant-garde, modernism and contemporary art. He sometimes curates exhibitions and also wrote a book about how sport and art have intermingled. 

Intro / Outro Music: Stuart Pearce - Theme From Red Sport International

Minor Compositions Podcast Episode 17 Militant Aesthetics with Martin Lang 

For this episode we talk with art historian and painter Martin Lang about this book Militant Aesthetics: Art Activism in the 21st Century. How are practices of art activism changing in the current political and media climate? What tensions exist within these forms of political engagement and how can they be productively worked with rather ignored or denied?

“Protest art is not a new concept and yet this book argues that after the terrorist attacks of 9/11 distinctly 21st-century forms of art activism emerged. On the one hand these became militant as artists retained belief in the possibility of radical political change through art. On the other hand, this belief developed in a hostile environment, when anti-terror legislations reclassified activists and artists as terrorists. Militant Aesthetics sheds light on numerous international case studies of modern art activism and the different ways they can be classified as militant. Combining these examples with the pioneering thought of Badiou, Žižek, Rancière and Mouffe, Lang investigates the instances, attributes and rules of militant art in order to introduce a new overall theory of 21st-century militant aesthetics.”

Bio: Martin Lang is Senior Lecturer in fine art at the University of Lincoln, UK. He trained as a painter before completing a PhD in History & Philosophy of Art, researching militant forms of art activism. He makes paintings, photographs and activist actions that tackle themes of authenticity, science fiction, political imagination and post-truth. Martin's research in art and politics has been widely published in academic journals including Art & the Public Sphere, Ekphrasis and the Hazlitt Review. His book Militant Aesthetics (Bloomsbury 2024) has been described as "a significant remapping of activist and political art" (Karen van den Berg). He also writes for Trebuchet magazine and the Conversation. 

Intro / Outro Music: Joseph Beuys - Sonne statt Reagan

Minor Compositions Podcast Episode 18 Anxiety as Vibration with Ana Minozzo 

For this episode we talk with we chat Ana Minozzo about her new book Anxiety as Vibration: A Psychosocial Cartography. What can anxiety do if approach anxiety not simply as a problem to be solved, but also as a potential site of rupture and transformation? And what tools might we find in a rethought version of psychoanalysis, embedded in community based practices?

“This open access book draws on the work of Deleuze and Guattari alongside Lacan and Freud to offer a radical psychosocial survey of the status of anxiety. Taking a multidisciplinary approach, the book examines key issues in contemporary diagnosis and points towards possibilities for forging a more creative clinic. Departing from a feminist, non-Oedipal positioning towards psychoanalytic texts, the author invites art theory, medical humanities and philosophy into a conversation that seeks to answer the question: What can anxiety do? Here, Ana Minozzo explores the possibilities of an encounter with the Real as a sphere of excessive affect in psychoanalysis, and terms this meeting a ‘vibration’.”

Bio: Ana C. Minozzo is a psychoanalyst and researcher based in London, UK. She is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher in Psychosocial Studies at the University of Essex where she is part of the FREEPSY collective research on the legacies of free psychoanalytic clinics.
Intro / Outro Music: The Observatory - Everything is Vibration
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Episode 19 Emergent Assemblages of Relationist Football with Jamie Hamilton 

For this episode we talk with Jamie Hamilton, a football coach and tactical writer based at Ayr United in Scotland. Hamilton is best known for coining the idea of relationism in football, which is an approach that emphasizes emergent patterns of play discovered by the players themselves rather than fitting into a set plan determined by the manager in advance. It is an approach that draws from a wide range of philosophical and aesthetic concepts, from the work of Deleuze and Guattari, to the anti-colonial politics of Brazilian football. In what ways might ideas and approaches developed within a football resonate beyond that context? How might looking for emergent dynamics rather than set plans change out patterns of perception and attunement with the environments we operate within and the people with interact with?

“Relationism differs from Positionism in that it does not believe future possibilities derive from fixed, known, established concepts. Rather, Relationism proposes (by way of concepts borrowed from French philosopher, Gilles Deleuze) that novel future states emerge to be actual through the establishing of contacts with an infinite set of virtual possibilities which are as yet unknown to us. The virtual is a realm of potentiality – the kindling is already pregnant with the potential of fire, all it needs to actualise it is a spark… 

The purpose is not to replace Positionism with Relationism in Europe, but nor should European Positionism entirely reject the validity of Relationist systems. Rather, an environment must be nurtured where these contrasting strains of football tactics can be studied, merged and cross-pollinated. Relationist tactics propose that new and unpredictable connections emerge from within the chaotic interactions between players. The routes of ball progression are not pre-meditated through set patterns and repeated automations. New orders emerge from the instability of disordered environments.” 

Bio: Jamie Hamilton is a coach (UEFA A) at Ayr United in Scotland and a football writer focusing on tactical theory and coaching practice. His writing can be found on Medium. 

Intro / Outro Music: Ken Vandermark, Eddie Prevost, and Guillaume Viltard, Improv Set Live at Cafe Oto September 2014

Minor Compositions Podcast Episode 20 The Arts of Logistics with Michael Shane Boyle & Elaine W Ho  

This episode is a conversation around the new book The Arts of Logistics: Artistic Production in Supply Chain Capitalism by Michael Shane Boyle. For this conversation we are joined by Elaine Ho, who artistic practice explores similar areas to those explored in Shane’s work. Through this conversation explore how artistic practices intersect with the global logistics systems that underpin contemporary capitalism. Today the dynamics of logistical capitalism both shape dynamics of artistic and cultural production as well as arguably are shaped by their being intertwined those very forms of artistic production. How might forms of art produced in the logistical mode offer us a space for viewing infrastructure otherwise?

“We live in a world where nothing is untouched by supply chains—art included. In this major contribution to the study of contemporary culture and supply chains, Michael Shane Boyle has assembled a global inventory of aesthetics since the 1950s that reveals logistics to be a pervasive means of artistic production. The Arts of Logistics provides a new map of supply chain capitalism, scrutinizing how artists retool technologies designed for circulating commodities. What emerges is a magisterial account of the logistics revolution that foregrounds the role played by art in the long downturn of global capitalism.”

Bio: Michael Shane Boyle is Senior Lecturer in the School of English and Drama at Queen Mary University of London.

Elaine W. Ho works between the realms of art, social practice and language — and since 2015, also a co-conspirator of Display Distribute, a thematic inquiry, distribution service, now and again exhibition space, and sometimes shop founded in Kowloon, Hong Kong. Seeping via the capricious circulation patterns of low-end globalization into other subaltern networks and grammars, Display Distribute’s recent activities include the experimental infrastructure LIGHT LOGISTICS, poetic research and archival unit Shanzhai Lyric, and a peripatetic radio programme of hidden feminist narratives known as Widow Radio Ching.

Intro / outro music: Bow Gamelan Ensemble - Massed Percussion (1988)

E21 - Feminist Antifascism v Contemporary Microfascism  

In this episode of Minor Compositions we delve into the complex intersections of gender, power, and contemporary alt-right and neofascist politics with Jack Bratich and Ewa Majewska. Drawing on Bratich’s On Microfascism: Gender, Death, and War and Majewska’s Feminist Antifascism: Counterpublics of the Common, the discussion unpacks how gender dynamics are central to the rise of fascist ideologies in the 21st century. The conversation explores how microfascist tendencies operate in everyday life, particularly in the realms of social reproduction, and examines the ways feminist antifascism offers tools for resistance and building counterpublics. 

Bio: Jack Z. Bratich is professor in the Journalism and Media Studies Department at Rutgers University. He is author of Conspiracy Panics: Political Rationality and Popular Culture as well as coeditor of Foucault, Cultural Studies, and Governmentality. 

Ewa Majewska is a feminist philosopher of culture and an affiliated fellow at the Institute of Cultural Inquiry (ICI) in Berlin, Germany. She was Adjunct Professor of Gender Studies and Cultural Studies at the University of Warsaw and Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland, and has held positions as a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley; Senior Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Human Sciences (IWM) in Vienna, Austria; and as a fellow at the ICI Berlin. 

Intro / outro music: Test Department & the  South Wales Striking Miners Choir - Gdansk / Comrades from “Shoulder to Shoulder” (1984)

E22 - Subversive Performance in the Age of Human Capital with Pil & Galia Kollectiv 

In this episode we chat with Pil and Galia Kollectiv to explore their new book, Subversive Performance in the Age of Human Capital. Stevphen was originally to take part in the book release event last autumn in London but was unable. So instead we’ve turned that missed event into an excuse for a conversation around Pil and Galia’s work. Topics covered include intersections of performance, labor, and neoliberal culture, examining how artistic expression resists and reframes the commodification of human potential. 


"Contemporary art relies on an expansionist, modernist ideal and still progresses through a critique of earlier forms of democratisation. But beneath this democratic drive, lurks a creeping crisis. Under neoliberalism, criticality has become a zone of value production. A self-deprecating irony, exposing and re-enacting this position of impotence, is one of the few gestures left in the arsenal of critical art. Against this irony, this book pits overidentification. This term has been taken to mean a kind of parodic mimicry of institutional power. Using a broad tapestry of sources, from political philosophers to art theorists, from post-Marxist critiques of labour to ethnographic studies, it proposes an interpretation of overidentification that does not collapse into ironic posturing. The authors differentiate this from bad faith flirting with taboo aesthetics by focusing on practices grounded in a genuine identification with power that ushers the kind of excess implied by overidentification. It is these forms of overidentification that destabilise the metastasis of liberal-democracy. Staging forms of critique not so readily absorbed into the structure of the present, these subversive performances herald a future beyond the democratic paradox."

Bio: Pil and Galia Kollectiv are artists, writers and curators working in collaboration. They lecture in Art at the University of Reading, Royal College of Art and University of the Arts London.
Subversive Performance in the Age of Human Capital Pil & Galia Kollectiv