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Open Class | 'On Parasite Art - Artist talk about subversive interventions in the public sphere' by Jakob Wirth

March 26th, 2025 (Wednesday), at 5:00 pm, Aula Magna - FBAUP

The Open Class On Parasite Art - Artist talk about subversive interventions in the public sphere with the artist Jakob Wirth will take place on March 26^th, 2025 (Wednesday), at 5:00 pm, Aula Magna - FBAUP. The session will be presented and moderated by André Rangel.

How do we manage to stay resistant in times where irritation becomes innovation and critique a corporate culture. Focused on artistic resistance within dominant systems such as the market, my artistic practice and research challenges traditional notions of appropriation, proposing that being "already appropriated" becomes a strategic tool for Parasite Art and subversive practice. In the lecture I will elaborate on parasitic tactics (Maria Lugones, de Certeau) to gather different ways of subversive practice, as well as give an overview on the genealogy of the parasite as a social figure and theoretical concept (Michelle Serres, Chantal Mouffe). In the presentation, I will mainly focus to my personal artistic projects weaving them together with theory and will explore how artistic research can support a grounded critical artistic practice. Jakob Wirth

Note: anyone interested in the workshop should also attend the lecture as preparation.

Organised by Doctoral Programme in Fine Arts & Master in Art and Design for the Public Space [FBAUP]

BIO

Jakob Margit Wirth is an artist, activist and PhD Candidate in artistic research with a background in public art and sociology. Jakob works in the public space and choose their artistic language processually, depending on context and theme. The artist uses mediums ranging from performance art, video, social practice to direct guerrilla interventions. His /Her main interest is to intertwine the artistic field with politics and everyday realities by hijacking unknown systems and questioning the boundaries of norms - parasiting structures and using them for collective purposes. Jakob has worked extensively with collectives and is the co-founded the cultural project Die Blaue Blume e.V., collective Operation Himmelblick and the Project Space Make-up in Berlin. Jakob has realized works and interventions in non-institutional public space (Chicago, Berlin, Munich, Madrid, Santa Cruz, Kopenhagen, etc.) as well as in institutional contexts (Architecture Biennial Chicago, Museum Worpswede, Gorki Theater, Schillermuseum Weimar, Münchner Kammerspiele, Art Biennial Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Alte Münze Berlin, Allentown Center for Contemporary Art, US, etc.). He/She has taught at Bauhaus University Weimar, the Kunsthochskolen Holback, DNK, the Agogis Zürich and the Humboldt University Berlin. He /She is founder and editor of the magazine Parasite Art and is a guest editor for Kunstforum International. 
Jakob holds a Master's degree in Spatial Strategies (Kunsthochschule Berlin Weißensee), as well as in Public Art and New Artistic Strategies (Bauhaus University Weimar), and a Bachelor's degree in Sociology, Politics and Economics, with periods of study in Madrid (ES), Santa Cruz (BOL), Holbaeck (DNK) and Chicago (US).