Jakok Wirth (Workshop)

n the workshop we will explore performative ways of intervening and irritating the public and work on deconstructing our own constraints. Starting from little exercises to collective rehearsals in the public space. We will thereby focus on the political statements you will bring to the workshop as a starting point and try to find a collective way to express it in the public of Porto in the afternoon. So please come prepared, full of interest in getting into the public (further details you will receive in the email after inscribing).

Jakob Wirth

How do we manage to stay resistant in times where irritation becomes innovation and critique a corporate culture. Focused on artistic resistance within dominant systems such as the market, my artistic practice and research challenges traditional notions of appropriation, proposing that being “already appropriated” becomes a strategic tool for Parasite Art and subversive practice.
In the lecture I will elaborate on parasitic tactics (Maria Lugones, de Certeau) to gather different ways of subversive practice, as well as give an overview on the genealogy of the parasite as a social figure and theoretical concept (Michelle Serres, Chantal Mouffe). In the presentation I will mainly focus to my personal artistic projects weaving them together with theory and will explore how artistic research can support a grounded critical artistic practice.