Lectures

Chto Delat?-What is to be Done?

Debate, presentation and a talk about recent activities of the formation Chto delat? (A Learning Play. The Dialectics of Sublime. (Arbeitstitel). 

Kampnagel Hamburg, 2013, participation in Bergen Assembly, 2013, etc.). In addition, the two artists shared their views on politics of collective work, updating of left-wing theory and artistic working methods in post-communist conditions.

 

Chto delat?is a formation of artists, critics, philosophers and authors founded in 2003 in St. Petersburg aiming to connect political theory, art and activism. Their activities include artists’ projects, seminars, public campaigns in the form of videos, theater plays, radio programs, posters, wall paintings. From the moment of its foundation the formation publishes Russian-English newspaper Chto delat?.

 

Recent project: Bergen Assembly, Trienalle Bergen, 2013; A Learning Play. Dialectics of the Sublime. (Arbeitstitel). Kampnagel Hamburg, 2013; FORMER WEST: Documents, Constellations, Prospects, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, 2013; 10th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, 2012; Chto Delat in Baden-Baden, Staatliche Kuntsthalle, Baden-Baden, 2011; Chto Delat Perestroika: Twenty Years After: 2011–1991, Kolnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, 2011; Ostalgia, New Museum, New York, 2011; Study, Study and Act Again, Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana, 2011 and The Urgent Need to Struggle, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, 2010.

 

artistsDmitryi Vilensky, Olga Egorova
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castDmitryi Vilensky, Olga Egorova
cameraNora Bodnar
soundNora Bodnar
editingNora Bodnar
interviewNora Bodnar
categoryLectures
published18. 12. 2013
languageČesky / English
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