Right-wing networks use social media and algorithms as efficient tools to implement racist, antifeminist, and anti-LGBTQIA+ policies, gradually shifting the broader societal discourse to the right. Through social media, they have been able to establish the AfD as a powerful parliamentary arm and a permanent fixture of our party system, translating combative rhetoric into concrete political action for many years now.
In this workshop, we will examine social media from an artistic perspective as a societal stage: on one hand, it serves as the perfect breeding ground for reductive, emotionally charged content and targeted radicalization; on the other, it remains one of the few spaces where these dynamics can be effectively and strategically countered (and must be). Concrete and accessible interventionist approaches will be presented, which can actively disrupt radicalization dynamics and are adaptable to one’s own artistic practice within a digitized reality.
Caspar Weimann is an adjunct professor and mentor for acting at the ADK Baden-Württemberg, the driving force behind the Internet theater onlinetheater.live, the app Loulu, and numerous intermedial projects.
Location: COLA TAXI OKAY, Kronenstraße 25, 76133 Karlsruhe
Participation is free. Registration is requested: https://www.kunstbuero-bw.de/de/kuenstlerische-strategien-zur-de-radikalisierung-auf-social-media/
An event organized by the Kunstbüro of the Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg [Art Office of the Arts Foundation Baden Württemberg], in cooperation with the City of Karlsruhe’s Department of Cultural Affairs and UNESCO City of Media Arts.
