DNL #14: Infiltration. Performance Lecture with Florian Cramer, Stewart Home, Tatiana Bazzichelli
Channel: Disruption Network Lab
Date: 2018-09-27

Disruption Network Lab 
An ongoing platform of events and research on art, hacktivism and disruption in Berlin. 

Berlin, September 7-8, 2018
INFILTRATION: Challenging Supremacism
14th Event of the Disruption Network Lab, Kunstquartier Bethanien Berlin, Studio 1.

Web: https://www.disruptionlab.org/infiltration
Twitter: @disruptberlin 
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Artistic Director and Curator: Tatiana Bazzichelli
Programme Managers: Nada Bakr, Kim Voss, Rahel Währer

Credits: 
Disruption Network Lab Berlin - www.disruptionlab.org
Video by Rofsofilms - www.rofsofilms.com 
Graphic: Jonas Frankki 
CC Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International 
Photo thumbnail: Maria Silvano

8 September, 2018
16:30 - 18:00
TRANSGRESSIONS THEN AND NOW: Does The ‘Alt-Right’ Reenact Counter-Culture?

Florian Cramer (Reader in 21st Century Visual Culture at Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam, NL)
Stewart Home (Artist, Filmmaker, Writer, and Activist, UK)
Q&A with Tatiana Bazzichelli (Artistic Director, Disruption Network Lab, IT/DE)

Does the "Alt-Right" movement reenact avant-garde and underground cultural transgressions? And, if this is true, does it invalidate the latter? Florian Cramer and Stewart Home will revisit 1970s-1990s counter-cultural currents that used radical performance, viral communication and media hoaxes and examine the degree to which they may be seen as playbooks for the info warfare of the contemporary extreme right.
What are, for example, the historical links between the Luther Blissett Project of the 1990s, the Anonymous movement of the early 2000s and 4chan's "Alt-Right" of today? When did the pseudo-fascist camp in post-punk culture turn into actual fascism? To which degree did counter-culture, since the 1960s, involve extreme right wing actors? Were there overlooked fascist undertones in the various libertarian ideologies that flourished in the underground?