Beginning As Well As We Can (How Do We Talk About Fascism?) is a two-year collaborative project launched in 2012 by What, How and For Whom / WHW, and is realized in partnership with Tensta Konsthall (Stockholm) and Kunstverein Graz. The starting point of the project is a collection of essays by Rastko Močnik  How much fascism?, published in 1995.
In the midst of the collapse of Yugoslavia, Močnik connected the conflicts and the rise of fascism in the areas from the Adriatic to Siberia with the structural consequences of the awakening and reconstruction of peripheral capitalism. At the time of the establishment of several new state entities based on nationalist ideologies, Močnik outlined a wide range of social arrangements crucial to the process, commenting on their “anti-anti-fascism” and cultural policies marked by racist connotations. In the meantime, there has been a fundamental ideological shift – there is no longer even a declarative proclamation of multiculturalism, and calls for “protection of the integrity of tradition and cultural values” have become almost mandatory battle cries of Western politicians. That is why today, considering the alarming rise of the right throughout Europe, we should direct our gaze towards the “peripheries” and towards the core of liberal democracy.

The project deals with articulating the potential of art for awakening public awareness and for resisting the alarming rise of the right in Europe.