Turbulence to Participate in ‘Learning Play’ at the ICA, London, on Friday 10 September
The 48 hour seminar, organised by ‘Chto delat?’, that we’re taking part in at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London began this morning. The seminar is now fully booked, but it ends with a ‘learning play’ called ‘What Struggles Do We Have in Common?‘ at 20:00 this Friday 10 September. If you’re in London, come along! It’s free, but you need to book (details below).
Here’s the information about the play, taken from the ICA website:
Learning play “What Struggles Do We Have In Common?”
Presented by Factory of Found Clothes, Nina Gasteva, Chto delat? and the participants of the 48 Hour Communal Life Seminar?
The title-question of the seminar and the play “What struggles do we have in common?” addresses the urgency of reconsidering the cultural field as a battle ground – where different forces of politics, aesthetics and ideology confront each other. The play concentrates on the recurrent conflict between artists and intellectuals who have chosen, out of a perceived necessity, to carry on their work within the framework of the institutional landscape, and activists who consider this position a betrayal of a political agenda that serves only to further the particular ‘brand’ a collective carries, detached from any political relevance. The play is an attempt to stage this conflict publicly and invite a local audience to engage with potential resolutions.
The Factory of Found Clothes (FCC) are Natalya Pershina-Yakimanskaya and Olga Egorova, respectively known as Gluklya and Tsaplya, both members of the collective Chto delat?. Founded in 1995 in St Petersburg, FCC are a well known feminist collective who often use participatory research methods to develop an operational logic of ‘fragility’ as subjectively antagonistic to that which is the state of things – be that the repressive social and political climate of Russia or the reflexive futilities of international art scenes. At the ICA, they are working with choreographer Nina Gasteva and Chto delat? to present a participatory public performance of a learning play that has been worked on collectively by all participants in the 48 Hour Communal Life Seminar.
Tickets can be reserved via the ICA Box Office by calling 020 7930 3647. The address and directions can be found here.
Participants include:
- Tsaplya (Olga Egorova), Nikolay Oleynikov, Gluklya (Natalya Pershina-Yakimanskaya), Alexander Skidan and Dmitry Vilensky from Chto delat? and Factory of Found Clothes
- Marina Vishmidt
- Steve Klee from Carrotworkers’ Collective
- Keir Milburn & David Harvie from Turbulence
- Steve Edwards and Antigoni Memou from Historical Materialism
- Kirsten Forkert
- Janna Graham from Ultra Red
- Nina Gasteva from Iguana Dance, St. Petersburg
- Brad Butler & Maxa Zoller from no-w-here
- Vladimir Jeric, Belgrade
- Kirill Medvedev from Socialist Movement Vpered – Forwards
- Jelena Vesic from Prelom Kolektiv
- Vladan Jeremic & Rena Raedle from Biro Belgrade
- Bojana Piskur
- Kerstin Stakemeier
- Ehsan Fardjadniya from Parachute-Artists (Nomad), Amsterdam
- Dave Beech from Freee
Turbulence in the Arctic
We’re not really going to the Arctic. But copies of our magazine are! They’ll be forming part of this year’s Cape Farewell Expedition. The project is an attempt at a cultural response to climate change, and this is how they describe themselves:
Cape Farewell has brought together leading artists, writers, scientists, educators and media for a series of expeditions into the wild and challenging High Arctic. Together they have mapped, measured and been inspired by this awesome environment and have endeavoured to bring home stories and artworks that tell how a warming planet is impacting on this wilderness
For more information about the project, go to CapeFarewell.com
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