Lectures, Sweden, Malmo Kommun, Malmö, 06 March 2014
ZERO GRAVITY REVOLT - art curator Elena Sorokina is giving a presentation of her work at
the Malmö Art Academy - one of the top art schools in Europe, among their professors are Joachim Koester, Sarat Maharaj, Gertrud Sandqvist, Haegue Yang.
In early Soviet science fiction, revolutions happened all over the Solar system - on Mars, on the moon, and of course on Earth. Full of vivid social imagination, its authors described cosmic class struggles and social upheavals booming in space - forceful and impetuous. The labor of revolution was, however, supposed to as the building blocks to create the new future conditions of labor. And here the revolutionary dynamics often got stuck on a single question: How will future humanity work? Should it work at all? The text "In one thousand years," written in 1927, opts for a creative non-labor and describes the inhabitants of the future as dancing, singing, painting creatures, who also regularly engage in unassisted flight or levitation. Like art, levitation and flight are considered a creative pastime that keeps the new humanity busy. However, all these activities - more or less virtuosic but decidedly unalienated - can be read as pure self-expression or cultural dissemination. What they don't accommodate - and the author is absolutely certain about it - is labor. Neither painting, nor dance, nor levitation contain any "work".
In my presentation, I will talk about the "learning mural" project by Nikolay Oleynikov "Zero Gravity Revolt" and "Spaces of Exception" - my curatorial projects dealing with the fictionalisation of the exhibition spaces and exploring their possible agencies.
http://www.khm.lu.se/?q=en
Thursday 6/3 13.00 in the lecture room! Open lecture.
the Malmö Art Academy - one of the top art schools in Europe, among their professors are Joachim Koester, Sarat Maharaj, Gertrud Sandqvist, Haegue Yang.
In early Soviet science fiction, revolutions happened all over the Solar system - on Mars, on the moon, and of course on Earth. Full of vivid social imagination, its authors described cosmic class struggles and social upheavals booming in space - forceful and impetuous. The labor of revolution was, however, supposed to as the building blocks to create the new future conditions of labor. And here the revolutionary dynamics often got stuck on a single question: How will future humanity work? Should it work at all? The text "In one thousand years," written in 1927, opts for a creative non-labor and describes the inhabitants of the future as dancing, singing, painting creatures, who also regularly engage in unassisted flight or levitation. Like art, levitation and flight are considered a creative pastime that keeps the new humanity busy. However, all these activities - more or less virtuosic but decidedly unalienated - can be read as pure self-expression or cultural dissemination. What they don't accommodate - and the author is absolutely certain about it - is labor. Neither painting, nor dance, nor levitation contain any "work".
In my presentation, I will talk about the "learning mural" project by Nikolay Oleynikov "Zero Gravity Revolt" and "Spaces of Exception" - my curatorial projects dealing with the fictionalisation of the exhibition spaces and exploring their possible agencies.
http://www.khm.lu.se/?q=en
Thursday 6/3 13.00 in the lecture room! Open lecture.
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