The aim of this thesis will be to produce a critical analysis of subversive artistic practices. I intend to assess if and to what extent creative forms of political direct actions can be considered...Show moreThe aim of this thesis will be to produce a critical analysis of subversive artistic practices. I intend to assess if and to what extent creative forms of political direct actions can be considered forms of artistic and ontological experimentations. Post-anarchism will be used as the political-ethical horizon in relation to which to position this kind of artistic subversive actions. With its ethics of anti-authoritarianism and equal-liberty, post-anarchist movements and groups seem indeed to be engaged in a constant revision of the relations of power through the ethical practices of freedom and emancipation. The artistic interventions presented in this thesis are forms of political direct action staged by anti-authoritarian groups and movements and can be read as part and result of a process of de-subjectivation and of the subsequent process of self-formation, self-mastery and self-organisation that feed autonomy and emancipation.The actions of frontal opposition discussed here will be presented as examples of the numerous experimental practices that want to produce new subjectivities as means of resistance and emancipation. They will be seen as experimental artistic practices of emancipation that allow liberty and equality to emerge in unpredictable creative ways. The artistic practices and political actions of Voina, Dost je!, Atopie and RTS represent a powerful source of creative and experimental force for rejecting the established formal channels of power and for breaking the “police order”.Show less
