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Documenta

In June 2022, the international art exhibition, Documenta, opened to visitors in Kassel, Germany, only to be quickly mired in controversy over one of the paintings on display: “People’s Justice” by the Indonesian art collective Taring Padi. Featuring what many observers considered to be an antisemitic depiction of an orthodox Jew, “People’s Justice” was quickly covered up and, eventually, removed from the exhibition. Almost immediately, scholars from around the world began weighing in on the Documenta controversy. Some of these responses are collected here via our “Documenta” series.

The New Fascism Syllabus‘ “Documenta” series was coordinated and edited by Jennifer Evans and Brian J Griffith.

The Documenta, Indonesia, and the Problem of Closed Universes

July 24, 2022 A. Dirk Moses 5

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 […]

Art Is Political: Is Documenta Afraid of the Global South?

July 22, 2022 Euge Murillo 1

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 […]

Learning and Unlearning with Taring Padi: Reflections on Documenta

July 2, 2022 Michael Rothberg 3

This article was republished on the New Fascism Syllabus with the permission of the author and the original publisher, Berliner Zeitung   I have not […]

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The #NewFascismSyllabus is a crowd-sourced collection of scholarly writings on the history of fascist, authoritarian, and right-wing populist movements and governments. It is intended to serve as an entryway into the scholarly literature for those seeking deeper insights into how past societies have gravitated towards authoritarianism, and seeks to provide comparative perspectives on how everyday people, as well as cultural authorities and civil institutions, coped and, in some cases, resisted these changes.

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  • The Social Roots of Israel’s Judicial and Political Crisis February 3, 2023
  • Jewish and Democratic? The Boomerang Effect January 25, 2023
  • Why Gender Will Be a Key Battleground in Israel’s Fight Against the Illiberal State January 17, 2023
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  • Yisrael Medad on Jewish and Democratic? The Boomerang Effect
  • Ellen Valle on My Ukraine Is Not Yet Lost
  • Attacco a Kassel - StorieInMovimento.org on The Documenta, Indonesia, and the Problem of Closed Universes
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