Politics of Love

Our conversation series Politics of Love is dedicated to forms of standing in for each other, which carefully and lovingly create community.

In everyday life and work culture, a break usually means the effective interruption of creation and ultimately aims at optimizing the work force. In this festival edition of Politics of Love though we want to dedicate ourselves with the topos “break” to those pauses that consistently break up and restructure mundane and aesthetic processes. We are interested in breaks that enable recreation and transformation, and lead to processes of social change through the redistribution of burden. It is the break that challenges rhythms and norms, and allows for radical expression. In Jeremy Nedd’s and Impilo Mapantsula’s work The Ecstatic the aesthetics and energies of the pentacostal praise break are confronted with South African subculture pantsula. We take the resulting space of reinvention as the starting point of our conversation.