The Parasite School marks the opening week of On Parasiting, an international artistic project that tests parasitic tactics as a contemporary methodology of resistant artistic practices. It responds by deliberately operating within existing systems and experimenting from inside them: through performative adaptation and precise acts of irritation, out of the position of complicity. The parasite carves out the fragility of its host system and searches for spots of resistant artistic practice.

Grounded in the specificity of case studies, including the work of economist Jana Costas as well as two forthcoming interventions within the long-term project On Parasiting, the panel formats on Day 1 focus in particular on the aesthetic-political dimensions of irritation, disruption, and resistance, taking existing sites, resources, and infrastructures as their point of departure. Contributions by sociologist and philosopher Oliver Marchart, curator Post Brothers, activists from peng!, and artist Jakob Margit Wirth open up a space in which theory and practice intersect. The day closes with the screening of Pilvi Takala’s Movie The Stroker, which documents one of the artist’s past infiltration experiences.

On the final day, the lectures and panel discussions will focus in particular on the ethical- emancipatory dimensions of parasitic tactics and their consequences, with a specific emphasis on contributions informed by non-binary theoretical approaches. Four additional presentations on upcoming interventions within the long-term project On Parasiting will establish a shared ground for discussion. The day will conclude with an additional artistic case by Pilvi Takala. 

One week of interventions in the public space around Papierstraße 11. More infos soon at https://poetics-of-resistance.net/rehearsing.