The Documenta, Indonesia, and the Problem of Closed Universes
The Taring Padi art collective was formed in 1998 after the fall of the Suharto dictatorship. Explicitly radical, it is dedicated to antimilitarism, anti-neoliberalism, to […]
Month: July 2022
Art Is Political: Is Documenta Afraid of the Global South?
documenta, the world’s most important international exhibition of contemporary art, has been held in the German city of Kassel every five years since 1955 and […]
Vergangenheitsbewältigung: What Living in Germany Taught Me About Dealing with the Past
This article was originally written for Yossi Bartal’s course, “Seemingly Inseparable: Reporting and Debating Israel-Palestine, Antisemitism, and Racism in German Media,” at Bard College Berlin […]
Whose War Is It?
This article was originally written for Yossi Bartal’s course, “Seemingly Inseparable: Reporting and Debating Israel-Palestine, Antisemitism, and Racism in German Media,” at Bard College Berlin […]
Why Right-Wing Appropriation of Commemoration Harms the Fight against Anti-Semitism
This article was republished on the New Fascism Syllabus with the permission of the author and the original publisher, Berliner Zeitung We the invited […]
Russia, the Dutch Far Right, and the Politics of World War II Remembrance
Since the most recent phase of Russia’s eight-year-long conquest of Ukraine began in late February 2022, much of Europe has mobilized politically against the Russian […]
Learning and Unlearning with Taring Padi: Reflections on Documenta
This article was republished on the New Fascism Syllabus with the permission of the author and the original publisher, Berliner Zeitung I have not […]
