Aesthetics of Resistance:  Part II at School of Resistance on Saturday 27 February 2021
Channel: HowlRound Theatre Commons
Date: 2021-02-28

Aesthetics of Resistance - Part II
7 a.m. PST (San Francisco, UTC -8) / 10 a.m. EST (New York, UTC -5) / 3 p.m. GMT (London, UTC +0) / 4 p.m. CET (Berlin, UTC +1)

As activists and artists, Edouard Louis, Geoffroy de Lagasnerie and Milo Rau discuss the possibilities and contradictions of engaged art in three short podcasts. What role do documentation and truth play in the face of an unbounded concept of art? Should art merely depict reality - or change it? Is art conceivable as a hermetic space - or deeply enmeshed in social events? How can art contribute to strategies of resistance?

In the second conversation, the intertwining of activism and art will be discussed. How do civil society actors contribute to an expansion of artistic strategies? To what extent does engaged art lead to the dissolution of the boundaries of the concept of art? The transcribed conversation will be published as a book by "Arche Editeurs" and is the basis for a production by Milo Rau together with Édouard Louis.
https://howlround.com/happenings/livestreaming-convening-school-resistance