Wear a mask and your face grows to fit it
Fearing ridicule, the soldier in George Orwell's “Shooting an Elephant” acts as his oversized mask—his role as an imperialist—dictates: he kills the peaceful grazing elephant for no reason. The inexorable sequence of events leading to this tragic end reveals his mask and the constraints it imposes on his actions.
With: Sebastián Dávila, Leon Höllhumer, Mati Jhurry, Jennifer Merlyn Scherler, SPORT, Melanie Jame Wolf
Vampire ANT Moth Maids
In Vampire ANT Moth Maids Dilruba gets bitten. Gothic letters on a black background draw her into the dark and open Raja'a Khalid's story on the negotiation of reality and its limits. It is by no means only humans who have the power to act, as Nikolaus Heinzer makes clear in his introduction to actor-network theory. Artificial blood, melancholic music, and guns can also make a difference. In the chain of hardly controllable variables, phenomena can easily get out of hand. It may then be helpful to take a closer look at specific connections. Kim Naehoon sees the interplay of cultural dissatisfaction, technological possibilities, and new forms of communication as fertile ground for fascism: Moth people, who lack sensibility and a sense of time, flutter from one attraction to the next, seemingly carrying the weight of the world on their wings. In a combination of anime, Victorian costumes, and hyper-individualized society, Jennifer Merlyn Scherler experiences a completely different situation: In the 2.5-dimensional space of the maid/made café, it is possible to be forever 17, to come home again and again, to escape loneliness and to cry together.
Vampire ANT Moth Maids appears in dialogue with the exhibition Wear a Mask and your face grows to fit it which takes place at For from 28.08.2025 to 01.11.2025 by Sebastián Dávila, Leon Höllhumer, Mati Jhurry, SPORT, Jennifer Merlyn Scherler, Melanie Jame Wolf.
Was ist Internationaler Feminismus?
Ni Una Menos Basel invites you to the first event in our series on international feminism.
At this first event, we want to provide an introduction to the following questions: What is queer feminism? What does international mean to us? What feminist movements are there?
The Open Antifascist Meeting Basel (OAT for short) will give a presentation on what the current shift to the right means for queers and the feminist movement.
With further questions to discuss, we invite you to delve deeper into the topic of international feminism.
If you want a translation from German to English please contact us on Instagram, so that we can make that happen :)
Das Magazin hat Geburi!
We are celebrating (once again) one year of Anarchist Library Magazine and cordially invite you to our birthday party! 🎉🎉
✖️When? Saturday, November 1, starting at 4 p.m.
✖️Where? Inselstrasse 79
✖️What? Crêpes, mulled wine, raffle, and more :)
Come and bring your friends, we look forward to seeing you 🖤
