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."

Oliver Ressler (viena)

Oliver Ressler was born in 1970, lives and works in Vienna. Oliver Ressler 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. Among his recent solo-exhibitions and projects are "Alternative Economics", Galerija Skuc, Ljubljana (SI); Kunstraum Lüneburg (G), "European Corrections Corporation" {with M. Krenn}, public space in Graz & Wels (A); "This is what democracy looks like"!, Plattform, Berlin (G). Ressler has taken part in numerous group exhibitions, video festivals and presentations in Europe and America.
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