Štrajtkultur - board game activation

Štrajtkultur is a participatory and itinerant intervention. It is based on a board game, inviting you to take part and activate the structure offered by the artist. The game explores the notion of radical democracy and antagonism as a creative force, ultimately posing the question: How can we learn to differ differently?

Radical democracy is a democracy that does not seek to eliminate antagonism, but rather relies on it. Antagonism, being the basic principle of a board game, is articulated differently in each session, whereby the metaphor of the “table” (in this case transferred to a picnic blanket) is clear - an object that serves as material infrastructure for social life, sustaining and mediating human relationships. Štrajtkultur is based on land use, distribution of resources and decision-making - imagining what structures are needed for antagonism to become a creative force. Would our democratic systems be different if we had a different relationship to land, one not based on ownership and extraction, but rather relationality and codependence? How can the boundary, the space of confrontation, become a generative and expanded space of negotiation? How can the lines dividing different positions bring them into a dialogue?

It is understood as an exercise in political imagination, as it offers different ways for the players to tackle it.