Kick-off Parasite School, part of On Parasiting

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.

The opening day invites artists and all participants to question the boundaries between theory and practice, across professional disciplines, and within research-driven inquiry and tactics. At the same time, it opens a field of exchange and interrogation on parasite art.

The contributions, combined with an artistic performance, are by Anna Watkins Fisher, Tobias Ginsburg, Jakob Margit Wirth and Post Brothers. 

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Program/timetable

15:00 Welcome and Kick-off On Parasiting
15:30 Artistic performance: Arek Parasite
16:00 Lecture-Performance: “Beyond the Firewall: On Infiltrating the Far Right”, Tobias Ginsburg

17:00 Break, with coffee

17:15 Lecture: “Parasite Art as a subversive practice”, Jakob Margit Wirth
18:00 Keynote: “The Compromised Art of Parasitical Resistance”, Anna Watkins Fisher
18:30 Panel discussion: “Theory and Practice of Parasitic Art”, moderated by Matilde Outeiro, with Post Brother, Anna Watkins Fisher, Tobias Ginsburg, and Jakob Margit Wirth

19:30–22:00 Dinner and drinks at the bar