On Parasiting is an international artistic project that tests parasitic tactics as a contemporary methodology of resistant artistic practices. It responds by deliberately operating within existing systems and experimenting from inside them: through performative adaptation and precise acts of irritation, out of the position of complicity. The parasite carves out the fragility of its host system and searches for spots of resistant artistic practice.

The Parasite School marks the opening week of On Parasiting, which unfolds over the course of one year. In between symposium, tactical workshop, and collective rehearsal space, the School brings together artists, theorists, and practitioners in Berlin to develop and discuss strategies of infiltration, complicity, and irritation. At its core is the figure of the parasite, not as a metaphor but as a methodology for operating within hegemonic structures and unsettling them through complicity.

Dates:

14.06. | 3 - 7 pm | Kick-Off at Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik (ZK/U)

16.06. | 8:30 pm | Public Screening at Make-up

20.06 & 21.6. | 2 - 7 pm | Symposium at diffrakt - zentrum für theoretische peripherie

The Parasite School offers a temporary infrastructure for collective thinking, preparing artists for the subsequent phase of working undercover within institutions and companies, entering normal jobs. It asks how resistance can persist today, when critique is increasingly absorbed, censored, or rendered ineffective, and proposes parasitic practice as one possible answer.

Contributions a.o. by Pilvi Takala, Oliver Marchart, Anna Watkins Fisher, Tobias Ginsburg, Jana Costas, Jakob Margit Wirth, Post Brothers and more open a space where theory and practice intersect.

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For the symposium, please register via: register[at]parasiting.net (not binding)