Info

• 176 pages, 17 × 24 cm
  
• Language: German
  
• ISBN 978-3-948174-22-4

Editors
Robert Eikmeyer, Ulrike Groos, Christian Jankowski, Claudia Throm, Anne Vieth

Artists / Authors
Lydia Askani, Johannes Bachor, Estela Barilaite´, Mona Barmeier, Esther Leonidowna Bernt, Natalija Borovec, Tilda George, Anna Günther, H/eesoo, Jessica Hug, Nora Käpernick, Sarah Kehr, Julia Kneip, Leonie Lass, Nick Liebig, Desiree Lune, Blerta Osmani, Clarissa Ottmann, Eugen Schlecht, Sissi Madelaine Schöllhuber, Miriam Schubach, Jina Shin, Soonhah, TZUSOO, Delara Vafi, Angela Vanini, Julia Walter, Johanna Adam, Miriam Cahn, Evelyn Echle, Robert Eikmeyer, Liam Gillick, Daniel Hornuff, Christian Jankowski, Farid Rakun, Kerstin Schankweiler, Hito Steyerl, Greta Taubert, Claudia Throm, Carol Tulloch, Anne Vieth, Slavoj Žižek

Design
studio +fronczek

The political culture of the 21st century is characterized by protests: Occupy Wall Street, Fridays for Future, Stuttgart 21, the occupation of the Hambach Forest, the actions of the Last Generation, or "Lützerath," amplified by the new phenomenon of social media, are just as much a part of it as Pegida, "Querdenken" (lateral thinking), and the marches of right-wing extremist alliances, such as in Chemnitz in 2018. Slogans like "Create peace without weapons" or "Swords into plowshares," "Nuclear power? No thanks" buttons with a smiling sun, banners, signs, barricades, human chains, vigils, megaphones, whistles, yellow vests, torches, and candles contribute to the spectrum of aesthetic expressions of this protest culture.

Their history has only recently come into focus for historians; a comprehensive cultural studies and artistic examination of the manifestations and aesthetics of the protest movements, however, is still lacking. Protestbereitschaft (Readiness to Protest) addresses precisely this gap, examining the iconography and aesthetic codes of the participating milieus and movements from an interdisciplinary and multi-perspective angle.

The exhibition and publication was a collaboration between the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, the abk – Staatliche Akademie der Bildliche Künste Stuttgart and the Hochschule Pforzheim, Fakultät für Gestaltung.