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US Premier of the 2002 documentary Disobbedienti (54 min, Italian with English Subtitles), by Oliver Ressler & Dario Azzellini. With presentation by theorist and critic Reinaldo Laddaga. The storefront display "Boom!" also accompanies the Premier.
"The video 'Disobbedienti' thematizes the Disobbedienti's origins, political bases, and forms of direct action on the basis of conversations with seven members of the movement. The Disobbedienti emerged from the Tute Bianche during the demonstrations against the G8 summit in Genoa in July 2001. The 'Tute Bianche' were the white-clad Italian activists who used their bodies--protected by foam rubber, tires, helmets, gas masks, and homemade shields--in direct acts and demonstrations as weapons of civil disobedience. At the G8 summit in Genoa the Tute Bianche decided to take off their trademark white overalls that had given them their name and instead blend in the multitude of 300,000 demonstration participants. The transition from the Tute Bianche to the Disobbedienti, the disobedients, also marked a development from 'civil disobedience' to 'social disobedience.' In the video, the Disobbedienti spokesperson Luca Casarini describes the Tute Bianche as a subjective experience and a small army, whereas Disobbedienti is a multitude and a movement."--Ressler & Azzellini
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Oliver Ressler (A) is an artist who carries out projects on various socio-political themes. Since 1994 he has been concerned with exhibitions, site specific projects and videos on issues such as racism, economic globalization, sustainable development, genetic engineering and forms of resistance. Many of his recent works are realized as collaborations, the project "Boom!" on myths of economic globalization with US-artist David Thorne, the video "Disobbedienti" about this activist movement with the Italian writer Dario Azzellini, and "Border Crossing Services" with the Austrian artist Martin Krenn.
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Dario Azzellini is an Italian writer and journalist based in Berlin.
Reinaldo Laddaga is Assistant Professor of Romance Languages at the University of Pennsylvania.
He is the author of Literaturas indigentes y placeres bajos (Beatriz Viterbo, 2000), a study of the links between literature and ethics in the works of Felisberto Hernández, Virgilio Piñera, and Juan Rodofo Wilcock; La euforia de Baltasar Brum (Tusquets, 1999), a novel; and numerous articles and critical essays on literature, art, and film.
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