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Duckrabbits Talk Back

Duckrabbits Talk Back

著者: Aria Spinelli Kuba Szreder Sepp Eckenhaussen
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A podcast about postartistic antifascism.

Duckrabbits Talk Back gathers thinkers, activists, artists, and postartists to discuss the global rise of fascism, ask questions together, and formulate possible responses. Duckrabbits — those wonderfully ambivalent creatures that can be seen as ducks or rabbits, or both at once — guide us through the tangled web of contemporary theory, postartistic practice, and antifascist imagination. From antifascist comics to networked movements, from intersectional struggles to economies of interdependence, duckrabbits and guests map how cultural work confronts both old and newly mutating forms of authoritarianism.

The series stems from a postartistic intuition: that artistic potentials bloom fully only when planted beyond the narrow confines of the professionalised field of art. This line of thinking has a long tradition, rooted in historical avant-gardes and postconceptual art: from Allan Kaprow’s call for artists to “drop out” of art, through Mierle Laderman Ukeles’ maintenance art and Rasheed Araeen’s push to move art beyond art, to Jerzy Ludwiński’s lectures on art in the postartistic age. Writing in 1971, Ludwiński suggested that art had already transformed into something else — something that escaped our capacity to name it, but carried greater potential.

These historical calls respond to contemporary urgencies. As liberal globalisation unravels under authoritarian pressure, postartistic antifascism emerges as a way to blur the line between art and life, image and action, irony and commitment. In Poland, for example, Ludwiński’s thought became a Leitmotiv of antiauthoritarian counterculture after years of right-wing authoritarian backsliding. Postartistic practitioners carried paintings as protest signs, organised marches for hospitality, and invented new antifascist visual idioms.

The Duckrabbit is the mischievous mascot of this radical ambivalence. It can be seen as a duck, a rabbit, or both at once. It can be seen as a duck, a rabbit, or both at once. In the same way, postartistic practices can be viewed as art, activism, both, or neither, depending on whom you speak with, how you act, and what kind of perspective you adopt. This double-sidedness has political implications. Against fascist rigidity, scapegoating, hate campaigns, and conspiratorial certainty, the Duckrabbit links absurdist humour with antifascist conviction, and postartistic flair with antiauthoritarian resistance.

Now the Duckrabbit returns — and talks back. Across seven episodes, Duckrabbits Talk Back brings together artists, theorists, organisers, and cultural workers to discuss antifascist network cultures, economic interdependence, complex simplicity, intersectionality, and the politics of cultural work today. What can art do when authoritarianism mutates? What forms of solidarity, organisation, and imagination are needed now? And what is to be done, today, with art, non-art, and postart?

Duckrabbits Talk Back is hosted by Aria Spinelli, Kuba Szreder, and Sepp Eckenhaussen, and produced by Anielek Niemyjski at the Institute of Network Cultures. The cover image was illustrated by Kacper Greń and the jingle was created by Olka Dąbrowska. The series is inspired by the comic treatise Duckrabbits Unveiled: A Sneak Peek at the Postartistic Theory and Practice, published by INC in 2025.

Amsterdam, Institute of Network Cultures, 2026

Institute of Network Cultures 2026
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  • Holding Together w/ Andrea Elera, Maddalena Fragnito & Zuzanna Hertzberg
    2026/07/21

    If we want to build antifascist movements today, the question (and critique) of intersectionality is crucial. How to hold together a movement with different people, in different places, who address different forms of violence and fight different forms of fascism? How can we build infrastructures of solidarity in or with art? With us in the studio to discuss these questions, are three wonderful guests: Andrea Elera on behalf of the migrant cultural workers’ collective Feministas en Holanda; Maddalena Fragnito, a cultural theorist and co-author of Spermopolitica; and multidisciplinary artist Zuzanna Hertzberg, who has been involved in anti-fascist organizing in Poland for over a decade.

    Duckrabbits Talk Back is a podcast about postartistic antifascism, hosted by Aria Spinelli, Kuba Szreder, and Sepp Eckenhaussen. It was inspired by the comic treatise Duckrabbits Unveiled: A Sneak Peek at the Postartistic Theory and Practice (2025): https://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/duckrabbits-unveiled-a-sneak-peek-at-the-postartistic-theory-and-practice

    This episode is hosted by Aria Spinelli and Sepp Eckenhaussen

    Editing and production by Anielek Niemyjski

    Cover art by Kacper Greń

    Jingle by Olka Dąbrowska

    Amsterdam, Institute of Network Cultures, 2026

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    2 分
  • Hegemony and Complexity w/ Nora Sternfeld
    2026/07/14

    What is really political art? What is the relation between art and hegemony? And how to be an uncompromising antifascist in a complex, multipolar world? To discuss these deep question, we are joined by Nora Sternfeld, an independent curator and Professor of Art Education at the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg. Expect no clear-cut, simple answers, but in-depth discussions about the opposition between simplistic complexity and complex simplicity, para-institutionality, counter-monuments, sober coalition-building, and the notion of propaganda. Please join us in the labyrinth of concepts, because it will be worth your while.

    Duckrabbits Talk Back is a podcast about postartistic antifascism, hosted by Aria Spinelli, Kuba Szreder, and Sepp Eckenhaussen. It was inspired by the comic treatise Duckrabbits Unveiled: A Sneak Peek at the Postartistic Theory and Practice (2025): https://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/duckrabbits-unveiled-a-sneak-peek-at-the-postartistic-theory-and-practice

    This episode is hosted by Kuba Szreder and Sepp Eckenhaussen

    Editing and production by Anielek Niemyjski

    Cover art by Kacper Greń

    Jingle by Olka Dąbrowska

    Amsterdam, Institute of Network Cultures, 2026

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    1 時間 1 分
  • Antifascist Network Cultures w/ Elke Uitentuis, Geert Lovink & Tibor Dieters
    2026/07/08

    What is the role of art in building new social movements and media? Artists Elke Uitentuis and Tibor Dieters, and media theorist Geert Lovink join us in the studio to discuss what kind of media conglomerates we dream of, the models that inspire us, and the kind of coalitions we are ought to build. As you will hear, we all want to break away from the art world’s cozy bubble of empty political statements and build something else. The fundamental point, in Geert's words, is to move art from policing at the discursive level to mobilising at the image level.

    Duckrabbits Talk Back is a podcast about postartistic antifascism, hosted by Aria Spinelli, Kuba Szreder, and Sepp Eckenhaussen. It was inspired by the comic treatise Duckrabbits Unveiled: A Sneak Peek at the Postartistic Theory and Practice (2025): https://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/duckrabbits-unveiled-a-sneak-peek-at-the-postartistic-theory-and-practice

    This episode is hosted by Sepp Eckenhaussen

    Editing and production by Anielek Niemyjski

    Cover art by Kacper Greń

    Jingle by Olka Dąbrowska

    Amsterdam, Institute of Network Cultures, 2026

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    1 時間 5 分
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