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.  

Image: Still from The Deviant Majority, Dora García, Academia della Follia (Trieste), 2010.

Echoing this programme, on 24-26 September, the festival Feral will continue the exploration of art and pirate (care) as tactics against the rise of oppressions through talks, artistic encounters, workshops, walks and fun. So, what are our levers for mutiny? Full programme on cifas.be.