For the video Fight Club (2022), she stages a series of theatrical dialogues designed to engage a diverse audience in discussing the issues that define our lives. This video is inspired by Brechtian learning plays, the Commedia dell’Arte, the Dadaist theatre, and the New York experiments of the 1980s.
David Graeber asserted that human consciousness only exists in dialogue with others, and the idea of the individual ‘thinker-philosopher’ is nothing but a myth. David himself was often subjected to public attacks and withstood them with fortitude. Monitors play videos featuring actors who were David Graeber’s friends: Jacques Servin from The Yes Man Group, Savitri D from the Church of Stop Shopping, Jamie Casey from Global Assembly and Extinction Rebellion engaged in a dialogue that discusses ideas about human nature, the social contract, property, and the state. Fight Club is a public learning space designed to change public common sense through debate.
On August 18th, Cory Doctorow led a discussion on pirate utopias and technology as social relationships, examining piracy’s evolution into symbols of rebellion and social commentary.
Pirate utopias and piracy based on technology. Historically referred to illegal looting at sea, Piracy in modern times extends to acts that infringe on copyrights. The session will discuss creative sharing, freedom of expression, fair use, privacy protection, and information transparency related to piracy, and explore how these topics evolve into symbols of deception, rebellion, and the rejection of norms.
