2015

Artist / Author: Chelsea Manning Initiative

Title: Keep Fighting

Photo: Chelsea Manning Initiative

From #DNL6 STUNTS: Distributed, Playful and Disruptive, Berlin December 12, 2015

Projections onto the facades of Kunstquartier Bethanien and St. Thomas Church, in support of Chelsea Manning during the conference STUNTS, which concluded the first year of conferences of the Disruption Network Lab in 2015. It discussed political stunts as an artistic and activist practice generate criticism by creating distributed, playful and disruptive interventions. Artists, hackers, mythmakers, hoaxers, critical thinkers and disrupters presented practices of mixing the codes, creating disturbance, subliminal interventions, giving raise to paradoxes, fakes and pranks. Subversion, disruption and disorder have been performed as a critique of the status quo by many underground projects in the course of the past decades. How can subversive actions happen today, in the context of increasingly invasive corporations and government agencies, after the NSA scandal?