Seminar
Figures of Fascism and Antifascist Solidarities
In the wake of late fascist globalization, cultural workers, activists and militants across a wide geography of organized and informal struggles for liberation recognise each other's causes as common. Antifascism re-emerges as a shared horizon that pierces through the everyday noise of our differences, projecting the necessity of solidarity and a broad alliance together with those targeted and affected by the rise of the far-right.
It is not so mind-boggling to relate anti-immigration policy and racial police violence to the defunding of art, the humanities, art education, independent media, fundamental scientific research, or critical thinking; or to connect the imperial war machine and the impunity of genocides with the ways in which solidarity and even compassion are criminalized, while the wealth of billionaires is exponentially multiplied on the basis of continued colonial extractivism and the destruction of lives and territories.
Solidarity looms from below and in closeness: in the world-making of collectives, in the way that they share knowledge and wealth, distribute risks and listen to each other's lives, resisting individualist fragmentation. How can we become better at being useful to one another and using one another to make ourselves unusable for fascism now?
For the second chapter of this program, we will gather at P.A.R.T.S. with their students and staff, school for contemporary dance as a fitting host for probing coalitions of bodies. The three-day program of performance, films, lectures and debates will feature La Candidate by undocumented women from Brussels-based political organizations (with Anna Rispoli and other allies), researchers and activists Valeria Graziano and Tomislav Medak from Pirate Care, artist Dora García, writer and queer activist Sarah Schulman and a line-up of militants across two generations.
Figures of Fascism and Antifascist Solidarities is a public program of the research project Choreographing Fascism (KhIO Oslo) conducted by Bojana Cvejić and collaborators.
Dates:
Thu 17.09.26–Sat 19.09.26
Times (start/end):
Thursday, September 17
16h-17.30
Tout contact laisse une trace / Every Contact Leaves A Trace
Film and aftertalk with authors of the collective
17.30-18.30Drinks and soup
19h-21.30 - Parc de Forest, near Place de Rochefort19h-20h La Candidate Sans-Papiers: With Love Not For Love | Performance (45’)
20h30 - 21h30 Henriette Essami-Khaullot, Anna Rispoli, Nina Ferrante and Bojana Cvejić | Talk (30’)
Friday, September 18 (
tickets
)
16-18.30
(Revolution, Fulfil Your Promise) Red Love
Film by Dora García
Talk with Dora García and Bojana Cvejić
Screening (95’)+talk (30’)
18.30 Drinks and soup
19.30-22h
Pirate Care lecture by Valeria Graziano and Tomislav Medak
22h Drinks
Saturday, September 19 (
tickets
)
16-17h
The Deviant Majority (From Basaglia to Brazil)
Film by Dora García (30’)
17-18.30
Across Generations: Fractures and AlignmentsPanel on Brussels activism
18.30-19.30Drinks and soup
19.30-22h
The Fantasy and Necessity of SolidarityA talk by Sarah Schulman with Bojana Cvejić and others
On 20 September, between 10.00 and 16.00, researchers working on Bojana Cvejić’s project Choreographing Antifascism — Austin Gross, Dora García, Benjamin Pohlig, Nikolina Pristaš, Ana Bigotte, Silvia Mollicchi, Snelle Hall, Marijana Cvetković, Bojana Cvejić and others — will be presenting talks and discussions as part of their ongoing working session. If you are interested in taking part, please send an email to bojacvej@khio.no
Location:
P.A.R.T.S., Brussels
Registration:
Tickets are available here: https://pierrot.io/parts/figures-of-fascism-and-antifascist-solidarities-2