»What Do You Meme By?« mit Sveamaus & Galerie Arschgeweih

Memes are the bright spots in daily doom scrolling. The hypermodern version of comic strips fulfil the promise that everyone can be creative on their own, and yet all together, on the world wide web. The anarchic meme movement has long had its own icons: accounts like Galerie Arschgeweih and Sveamaus each entertain a six-figure number of followers. Their approach to memes is different: visual artist Svea Mausolf (aka Sveamaus) immerses the invasive everyday life in acid, from terraced house dreariness to esoteric fairs to the German office cult. The Galerie Arschgeweih collective, on the other hand, specialises in peeling viral miniatures from the trash TV of the noughties (and everything around it), mostly in the form of small moving image clips. In »What Do You Meme By?«, Daniel Wiegärtner from Galerie Arschgeweih and Sveamaus will meet to talk about the digital cultural practice of humour. Host Yvonne Sembene, a source of inspiration who also deals with memes as well as with decolonial, feminist discourse, will lead a lively conversation that shows having fun and gaining knowledge are not mutually exclusive.