In the global financial crisis an ‘expected unexpected’ burst on the scene: from the ‘Book block’ wave started in Europe to the occupations of the Spanish Indignados and Occupy movements, the numerous forms of struggle across the world shed light on uprising, its demands and practices. The Free Metropolitan University of Rome (LUM) and the political collective Krytyka Polityczna will meet at the Istituto Svizzero of Rome on 24th of March to discuss about a new political constellation for the movements, exploring the link between politics and arts, that is combining the means of art, knowledge and politics to transform reality against exploitation and the status quo. Starting from the documents “Do the right Thing” by LUM and “Globalize the left” by Krytyka Polityczna, we will discuss about the multiplicity forms of uprising across Europe exploring their constituent capacity, in particular focusing on the co-extensive and recursive relationship between tumults and institutions. While social movement questions life and form of expression, language and knowledge, institutions refer to a “positive model of action” that organizes reality developing multiplicity, linking uprising to federal and transnational dispositives able to spread power instead of concentrating it.
How to create a cooperative and political network that act on the basis of common ideas? Starting from this question, the Free Metropolitan University of Rome and Krytyka Polityczna, together with activists from Occupy Geneva and Juventud Sin Futuro from Madrid would investigate the engagement between art and the political activism to image alternatives based on concrete realities.
Documents:
Do the right Thing (Free Metropolitan University)
Globalize the Left (Krytyka Polityczna)