Sofia Bempeza's recent research is interested in political and aesthetic practices that favour the “fakes” and post-facticity as a practice of domination and subversion, in the sense of a transformation of the truth regime. In her presentation she will highlight on the one hand the (popular-)aesthetic practices of New Right movements such as the Identitarians (mostly active in central Europe) and on the other artistic positions (Burschenschaft Hysteria) that employ interventional tactics such as subversive affirmation and overidentification, and make use of post-truth tactics, in order to comment, sabotage, or simply distruct current sociopolitical phenomena.

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Sofia Bempeza is an artist and art theorist based in Zurich. Her work (text, performance, interventions, research) is focused on the politics of public spaces, subversion and pop cultural strategies of the New Right, as well as gender identities in the art and knowledge production. She holds a PhD in Philosophy from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Her thesis explores the relation between contemporary art practices, hegemonial power structures and agonistic confrontation. She teaches at F+F Schule für Kunst & Design Zürich and at Leuphana University Lüneburg.