[spectre] (fwd) COMMUNISMS AFTERLIVES

[Andreas Broeckmann]

Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 16:38:03 +0200
Subject: COMMUNISMS AFTERLIVES
From: <julia.rykebusch at free.fr>
To: Andreas Broeckmann <ab at MIKRO.IN-BERLIN.DE>


COMMUNISMS AFTERLIVES

The seminar will take place in Brussels and 
Paris, in both cases at The Public School.

Brussels April 23rd, 3-6pm
Participants: Agency, Dessislava Dimova, Albert Heta, Olga Kisseleva
for more information please follow the link: 
http://brussels.thepublicschool.org/class/2336

Paris April 24th, 3-6pm
Participants: Pietro Bianchi, Renata Poljak, Société Réaliste, Oxana Timofeeva
for more information, please follow the link: 
http://paris.thepublicschool.org/class/1773

Organized by Elena Sorokina and Natasa Petresin-Bachelez

description:
After the collapse of the Soviet block, communism 
as idea, image or problem has been regarded as 
"outmoded, absurd, deplorable or criminal, 
depending on the case". Today, it is often 
presented by the mainstream media as a 
parenthesis of history, an aberration of the 20th 
century, as "a completely forgotten word, only to 
be identified with a lost experience". Although 
the communist hypotheses of previous eras may no 
longer be valid, their histories, narratives and 
key notions have never ceased to spark attention 
and inform recent discussions such as the 
communal versus the common, and material versus 
immaterial property, to name just a few. 
Perceived from a greater distance today, 
communism has re-emerged as a topic for 
investigation in artistic and exhibition 
production, that reflects it in diverse ways, 
addressing the relevance of the term today or 
inviting provocative comparisons with the present.

This seminar aims at presenting various works 
that recast ideas related to communism and 
revisit it as a complex and diverse arena of 
political and aesthetic attitudes, which varied 
between nations, communities and historical 
periods. By no means does the seminar intends to 
take a nostalgic tour through the past decades, 
but rather seeks to address the topic through 
concrete art and exhibition projects realized 
recently. All of them are trying to deconstruct 
the idea of monolith, still very present in 
today's reception, and to recuperate various 
episodes, stories and notably, the "communist 
apocrypha" - texts, music, visual production - 
which have never been part of the established 
ideological canon, and whose intellectual 
patterns shed new light on what the contemporary 
uses of the notion of communism might be. Instead 
of treating communism as pure political 
abstraction, the projects presented by the 
seminar deal with concepts, events and/or 
particular personalities related to communism and 
its history which have survived the Bildersturm 
of the recent past and can be artistically 
reactivated.

Facebook event: 
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=532787364#!/event.php?eid=101896426520537&ref=mf




COMMUNISMS AFTERLIVES



The seminar will take place in Brussels and 
Paris, in both cases at The Public School.

Brussels April 23rd, 3-6pm
Participants: Agency, Dessislava Dimova, Albert Heta, Olga Kisseleva
for more information please follow the link: 
<http://brussels.thepublicschool.org/class/2336>http://brussels.thepublicschool.org/class/2336

Paris April 24th, 3-6pm
Participants: Pietro Bianchi, Renata Poljak, Société Réaliste, Oxana Timofeeva
for more information, please follow the link: 
<http://paris.thepublicschool.org/class/1773>http://paris.thepublicschool.org/class/1773

Organized by Elena Sorokina and Natasa Petresin-Bachelez

description:
After the collapse of the Soviet block, communism 
as idea, image or problem has been regarded as 
"outmoded, absurd, deplorable or criminal, 
depending on the case". Today, it is often 
presented by the mainstream media as a 
parenthesis of history, an aberration of the 20th 
century, as "a completely forgotten word, only to 
be identified with a lost experience". Although 
the communist hypotheses of previous eras may no 
longer be valid, their histories, narratives and 
key notions have never ceased to spark attention 
and inform recent discussions such as the 
communal versus the common, and material versus 
immaterial property, to name just a few. 
Perceived from a greater distance today, 
communism has re-emerged as a topic for 
investigation in artistic and exhibition 
production, that reflects it in diverse ways, 
addressing the relevance of the term today or 
inviting provocative comparisons with the present.

This seminar aims at presenting various works 
that recast ideas related to communism and 
revisit it as a complex and diverse arena of 
political and aesthetic attitudes, which varied 
between nations, communities and historical 
periods. By no means does the seminar intends to 
take a nostalgic tour through the past decades, 
but rather seeks to address the topic through 
concrete art and exhibition projects realized 
recently. All of them are trying to deconstruct 
the idea of monolith, still very present in 
today's reception, and to recuperate various 
episodes, stories and notably, the "communist 
apocrypha" - texts, music, visual production - 
which have never been part of the established 
ideological canon, and whose intellectual 
patterns shed new light on what the contemporary 
uses of the notion of communism might be. Instead 
of treating communism as pure political 
abstraction, the projects presented by the 
seminar deal with concepts, events and/or 
particular personalities related to communism and 
its history which have survived the Bildersturm 
of the recent past and can be artistically 
reactivated.

Facebook event: 
<http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=532787364#!/event.php?eid=101896426520537&ref=mf>http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=532787364#!/event.php?eid=101896426520537&ref=mf



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