Radical Permanence: Artists Cultural Producers and The Interconnection of Struggles

A talk with Marco Baravalle (Sale Docks, Venice), Nitasha Dhillon and Amin Husain (Decolonize This Place), and Kazembe Balagun (Maysles Documentary Center), with further guests to be announced. Baravalle presents his book 'The Battleground of Art: Radical Curating in the Crisis of Neoliberalism' and his concept of 'radical permanence', drawn from two decades of art activism with Sale Docks, an autonomous collective in Venice. It opposes the neoliberal regime of mobility of artists and art workers through self-management, social rootedness and resistance, linking struggles against artwashing, gentrification and labour precarisation. The speakers discuss activist practices in Venice, New York and Palestine and the role of artists and cultural producers in the global interconnection of struggles.