Communism
‘Communism’ addresses the term from the perspective of the first years of the twentieth century in an environment where it was routinely understood as defeated and caught in the negative connotations of the past. Working with artists, academics, writers and collectives this project commissions and collects a series of propositions, counter narratives, abstract ideas, engaged political analysis and satirical commentary. These were developed over the course of two years and made public in the context of an exhibition, seminar, radio programme and publication, understood as experimental platforms for a future oriented materialising of the communist imagination.
Radio studio, Resonance FM, Frieze Art Fair, 2006
photographer unknown
Exhibition/seminar: Project Arts Centre, Dublin,
January 20 – February 27 2005
Curator:
Grant Watson
Radio Programme: Resonance FM 104.4fm, Frieze Art Fair, London, October 12 – 15 2006
Publication: Make Everything New: a Project on Communism, Bookworks/Project Art Centre, 2006
Artists in the exhibition:
Eva Berendes, Lali Chetwynd, Declan Clarke, Susan Kelly, Goshka Macuga, Paul McDevitt, Alexandra Mir, Seamus Nolan, Hito Steyerl, Veit Stratmann, Klaus Weber
Seminar:
Eric Alliez, Maurizio Lazzarato, Hito Steyerl, Alberto Toscano
Radio Programme:
Enrico David, Shezad Dawood, Declan Clarke, Kodwo Eshun, Annie Fletcher, Karl Holmquist, Jean Matthee, Eoghan McTigue, Kerstin Mey, Garrett Phelan, Susan Phillips, Adrian Rifkin, Dieter Roelstraete, Angelika Sagar, Charity Scribner, Hito Steyerl, Terre Thaemlitz, Ultra Red (curators Grant Watson and Sarah Peirce)
Publication:
Ayreen Ana/Rene Gabri of 16 Beaver, Gopal Balakrishnan, Michael Blum, AA Bronson, Maria Eichhorn, Factotum, Dimitry Gutov, Aleksandra Mir, Sarah Peirce, CK Rajan, Raqs Media Collective, Dont Rhine, Martha Rosler, Rob Stone, Alberto Toscano, Wu Ming (eds Grant Watson, Gerrie van Noord, Gavin Everall)
