Please join us for two evenings dedicated to the G8 mobilizations in Germany (2007) and Japan (2008) by artists and organizers involved in the events. Presenters include Not An Alternative, Hate The G8 Action Faction, Go Hirasawa and Sabu Kohso of Japan's No! G8 Action.
Monday, March 10th, 7:30pm and Tuesday, March 11th, 7:30pm
The G8: A Different Repetition?
In many ways, last year’s G8 summit on Germany’s Baltic coast was as we had expected it would be: a repetition of previous counter-summit mobilizations from Seattle onwards (Prague, Gothenburg, Genoa, Evian, Cancun, Gleneagles…).
However, what appears like mere repetition is not necessarily a repetition at all; at least not in the sense that it is simply the same thing taking place over and over again. Rather than a return to a particular point in a cycle (bringing Seattle to Germany, for example), Heiligendamm may have represented a break in what has become a familiar trajectory. Is it possible that what came back with 2007 G8 was the reemergence of something unknown?
How are we to understand the mass mobilizations that occur every year around the G8? Are they part of an unforeseeable process of becoming – one that has the potential to go beyond the achievements and limits of the past? If so, how can they function less as a repetition that seeks to mimic and more as a new experiment in the production of politics - overcoming rather than reaffirming existing identities?
Monday, March 10th, 7:30pm
Act 1: Multimedia report-back and analysis from the June 2007 G8 mobilization in Heiligendamm by members of Not An Alternative and Hate The G8 Action Faction.
Act 2: Info-tour and screenings with representatives from No! G8 Action, a Japan-based network of anti-authoritarians and anarchists mobilizing towards the 2008 G8.
