Francis Cape
Utopische Gemeinschaften. Verweigerung, Teilhabe und anarchistische Praxis

Workshop / Animation

Dates
13.–14.10.2014

Details
in englischer Sprache

Location
Festivalzentrum Paulustorgasse
Graz

Series
herbst-Akademie 2014

The world is presented to us as though individualism and materialism were the only possible orientation systems and representative democracy the only possible way of organising a state politically. And yet there are communities that refuse to participate in these systems and choose instead to practise comprehensive forms of sharing and participation in self-determined collectives. In his “Utopian Benches” project presented at the steirischer herbst exhibition "Forms of Distancing", Francis Cape has closely examined these kinds of communities and their history in Europe and America. Taking a look at religious movements of the 18th century, the anthropologist and activist David Graeber, Zapatista villages, as well as voluntary fire brigades, this workshop investigates those collectives which define themselves as communities of goods and how we can realise anarchistic and communist practices within daily life.

Mitwirkende / Mitwirkender: Francis Cape

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