[spectre] Online Symposium "Critical Art vs. Prank Politics" 8.5.2025

[Ploeger, Dani]

You are warmly invited to join us next Thursday for the online symposium 
"Critical Art vs. Prank Politics: creative tactics for post-moral 
paradigms"
Attendance is free, but please sign up here: 
https://cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/form/view/3d60BozOhQLPQDmBsksxqNUyHrH9lYh921buh3XlYGs/
The link to the event as well as a detailed programme will be sent out 
closer to the date.

Very best,
Dani Ploeger


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Critical Art vs. Prank Politics
creative tactics for post-moral paradigms
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online-symposium
Thursday 8 May 2025, 15:00-17:30 CET

Contributors: Aram Bartholl, Francis Hunger, Nora Nora O'Murchú, Dani 
Ploeger, Hito Steyerl,
Florian Weigl

In February, Benjamin Netanyahu presented a gold plated pager device to 
Donald Trump, in reference of last year’s Mossad attack on suspected 
Hezbollah members, using explosive pagers. Not only did this gift mark 
another step in a seemingly escalating sequence of official 
glorifications of acts of state-sanctioned violence that are legally 
questionable at best (the United Nations Human Rights Office denounced 
the attack as a “terrifying violation of international law”). Its form 
also suggests that representatives of nation states in the Global North 
are shifting their previous focus on keeping up the appearances of an 
enlightened moral high-ground towards a strategy of prank-like 
utterances that blatantly display a politics of obscene violence that 
accompanies globalized power.

The hyperbolic representation and aestheticization of political 
transgression to expose the perverse implications and undercurrents of 
hegemonic power have long been a prominent tactic in critical art  
practices. Now that this approach has been co-opted by the 
representatives of power themselves, thus normalizing the public display 
of violent excesses, what artistic and critical tactics – if any – might 
still have the potential to raise moral concerns and motivate 
resistance?

Critical Art vs. Prank Politics is a one-day online symposium organized 
by Dani Ploeger, Professor of Performance and Technology at the 
University of Music and Theatre Munich in collaboration with  V2_Lab for 
the unstable media.


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Prof. Dr. Dani Ploeger

Professor of Performance and Technology, University of Music and Theatre 
Munich

Website: www.daniploeger.org
Book: https://www.triarchypress.net/deserted.html

Current research:
Rojava Center for Democratic Technologies: https://t.me/rojavatech
Disobedient Devices: https://www.disobedientdevices.org/
Destructive Circuits: https://v2.nl/publications/destructive-circuits