Duckrabbits Talk Back

About Duckrabbits Talk Back

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

Publisher

Aria Spinelli, Kuba Szreder, Sepp Eckenhaussen

Category

arts · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

3 Jun 2026

Latest episode

21 Jul 2026

Latest episodes

6 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   21 Jul 2026

   Holding Together w/ Andrea Elera, Maddalena Fragnito & Zuzanna Hertzberg

   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 (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

2. 

   14 Jul 2026

   Hegemony and Complexity w/ Nora Sternfeld

   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 (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

3. 

   8 Jul 2026

   Antifascist Network Cultures w/ Elke Uitentuis, Geert Lovink & Tibor Dieters

   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 (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

4. 

   24 Jun 2026

   Interdependent Economies of Art w/ Kathrin Böhm, Marco Baravalle & Yazan Khalili

   What is to be done when the usual economies of art — grants, markets, donors, biennials, institutions, and endless unpaid labour — reach their breaking point? In this episode, we look at interdependent economies of art and the search for alternative modes of organising artistic production amid systemic breakdown. Together with Kathrin Böhm, Marco Baravalle, and Yazan Khalili, we discuss more-than-capitalist economies, commons, alter-institutions, donor dependency, voluntary work, class privilege, and infrastructures of solidarity. Yet again, do not expect simplified responses to complex questions, but rather clarity that stems from years of practice, based on grounded reflections on Company Drinks, S.a.L.E. Docks, Radio Alhara, The Question of Funding, and Learning Palestine. Please join us as we ask whether art workers should defend institutions, abandon them, occupy them, or build something else — because after the breaking point, interdependent economy becomes a matter of survival, autonomy, and collective imagination. * correction: Company Drinks was not started in 2013, as stated in the episode, but in 2014 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 (https://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/duckrabbits-unveiled-a-sneak-peek-at-the-postartistic-theory-and-practice/) This episode is hosted by Aria Spinelli and Kuba Szreder Editing and production by Anielek Niemyjski Cover art by Kacper Greń Jingle by Olka Dąbrowska Amsterdam, Institute of Network Cultures, 2026

5. 

   17 Jun 2026

   Mapping Antifascist Postart w/ Gregory Sholette, Hito Steyerl & Jakub Depczyński

   What is to be done when authoritarianism is not simply a blast from the past, but mutates through AI slop, fossil infrastructures, culture wars, and flexible realities? What happens when time collapses and fascists wage war on truth itself? What is the role of artists and postartists facing this conundrum? Should their work become more operational, or rather radically inoperative? And do we need clear answers, or must we learn how to pose the right questions? In this episode, we map postartistic antifascism around the world with Gregory Sholette, Hito Steyerl, and Jakub Depczyński. Expect no comforting answers, but sharp discussions about the radical unpresent, retro-vanguards, derivative fascisms, fractal colonialism, democratic interregnums, phantom archives, and the fragile afterlives of initiatives such as the Antifascist Year. Please join us in this exchange of diagnosis and strategies — because by braiding both, we get a bit closer to knowing what needs to be done. 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 (https://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/duckrabbits-unveiled-a-sneak-peek-at-the-postartistic-theory-and-practice/) This episode is hosted by Aria Spinelli, 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

6. 

   3 Jun 2026

   Introducing the Duckrabbit w/ Anielek Niemyjski, Aria Spinelli, Kuba Szreder & Sepp Eckenhaussen

   Duckrabbits Talk Back is a podcast about postartistic antifascism. It 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. In this first episode of the series, co-hosts Kuba Szreder, Aria Spinelli, and Sepp Eckenhaussen, together with producer Anielek Niemyjski, introduce comrade Duckrabbit. They share their reasons for making an antifascist art podcast today, and announce the all-star line-up of artivist guests in the upcoming episodes. Duckrabbits Talk Back 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 (https://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/duckrabbits-unveiled-a-sneak-peek-at-the-postartistic-theory-and-practice/) Cover art by Kacper Greń Jingle by Olka Dąbrowska Amsterdam, Institute of Network Cultures, 2026

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