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 ra