Figures of Fascism and Antifascist Solidarity
From the US to India, from Europe to Israel, fascism no longer appears as an abstract threat but as a long-term process; neither a historical aberration to be bracketed nor anything exceptional. In 2025, the speed at which fascist politics has advanced has outpaced all expectations. The intensified scapegoating of an array of “others” for the most chilling persecution has gone hand in hand with the criminalization of protest and the defunding of research and culture. The political left still falls short of the power which fascists project onto it.
To catch up, all who resist normalization of this ordeal may feel compelled to reclaim antifascism and seek to know what it requires today. That is, how antifascist solidarity can be made, what “world-making” can make possible for organization and resistance, and what means and resources artists and cultural workers can mobilize and make collective. The motto “How to be many?” long stood for the promise of thinking together, collaborating, and commoning; but we can recognize today that “to be many” is the condition for our power to resist and to stand with others.
We will meet three times from 2026 to 2027 for study, seeking to shape a space in which artists, political thinkers, cultural workers and activists, can address the questions they have in common through their different genres and forms: lecture, performance, film, video installation, and conversation. In our first session, we will draw a long arc of relations between present-day and historical faces of struggles against fascism, because antifascism is not an exception.
• Bojana Cvejić is author of several books, notably Choreographing Problems (2015) and Toward a Transindividual Self (co-written with Ana Vujanović 2022). As a practicing dramaturg, she has co-created numerous performances and collectively self-organized platforms for artistic production, critical theory, and education in Europe and the former Yugoslavia. Figures of Fascism and Antifascist Solidarity is a public program of the research project Choreographing Fascism (KhiO Oslo) which Bojana shares with Dora García, Goran Sergej Pristaš, Benni Pohlig and others.
PROGRAMME
Tue 27/01/26 (one ticket gives access to all events on this day)
18:00: DECADE - Nikhil Vettukattil (video installation in loop)
19:00: Sommerspiele – Eszter Salamon
20:30: An Introduction – Olga de Soto
21:45: Conversation with Eszter Salamon, Olga de Soto and Bojana Cvejić
Wed 28/01/26 (one ticket gives access to all events on this day)
17:30: DECADE - Nikhil Vettukattil (video installation in loop)
18:30-19:45: Conversation on DECADE with Nikhil Vettukattil,
Marijana Cvetković, Goran Sergej Pristaš and Bojana Cvejić
20:30: Keynote lectures:
- Relations of Destruction: dismantling racial fascism in the 21st century by Alberto Toscano
- Pre-emptive Legal Violence by Brenna Bhandar
Thu 29/01/26 (there are separate tickets for the events on this day, DECADE can be seen with both the other tickets)
18:00: DECADE - Nikhil Vettukattil (video installation in loop)
19:00: Algo se cruza en las palabras al escavar bajo los pies - Olga de Soto
20:30 Wrap, History and Syncope – Isabel de Naverán
