Video: Protest exhibition "Parasites"
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Contemporary exhibitions are often set up to protest against something, such as global warming, discrimination against women, or the killing of baby fur seals. But Hamburg recently hosted the PARASITES exhibition, designed to highlight the protests themselves.
Art often becomes a protest against something important from the artist's point of view. But protest itself can become art. You just need to pay due attention to this.
So, the other day in the port of Hamburg, an unusual exposition was held, the object of which was the protests themselves. The organizers of the exhibition invited all possible radical groups to participate in this event, presenting to the public their visual agitation, namely, posters and banners used during the rallies, but dozens of radicals responded to the call of the organizers. As a result, the exhibition was quite a success.
The participants, and this is the whole spectrum of German radical parties and movements from anti-globalization to neo-fascists and antifa, gladly brought their posters and banners with them. After all, until this very exhibition, they had no idea that this was not just visual agitation that they use during rallies and demonstrations, but objects of art.
The exhibition "Parasites" turned out to be quite popular. She brought together many participants and spectators. Naturally, many people want to admire all this at close range, but not at a rally. Well, the radicals are also interested in showing themselves and seeing others in a friendly atmosphere, without massacres.
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