Seattle’s Month-Long Festival of Radical Art and Thought
May 2020
Seattle
Maybe we can’t move beyond capitalism by next week but we can sure as hell take a vacation from it.
From the buzzwords Seattle is particularly vulnerable to: High Tech. Entrepreneur. The Innovation Society. The gig economy. If everything around us chants “there is no alternative to capitalism,” if all we’re told is that history is over and it ends with us, don’t you think simple mental hygiene demands that we try to think outside of that box for (at the very least) one month a year?
So join us. We want Seattle to turn red for a month. To eat red food (apples, red dots, radishes), to wear red accessories, to get caught red-handed reading Karl Marx, and (while the world maximizes human capital) to live prodigally in the red as if there’s no tomorrow.
Anyone can play. The rules? There are only two. First, riff on red. And second, assume for a month that the market is not the solution to the problems that the market creates.
Take a Vacation
from Capitalism.
Upcoming Livestreams:
SPEAKERS
Free lectures and speaking engagements featuring prominent theorists, writers, and poets.
SCHEDULE
Conversations analyzing contemporary issues through Marxism, political economy, feminism, race, philosophy, and postcolonial theory.
ART EXHIBITS
Red May has teamed with This Might Not Work to bring a variety of conceptual art projects from over 20 artists in 2018. Please visit their website to learn more.
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PARTNERS
Hedreen Gallery + Northwest Film Forum + Glassbox Gallery + Simpson Center for the Humanities - University of Washington + Scarecrow Video + Alkovi Gallery - Helsinki + Elliott Bay Bookstore + University Bookstore + Seattle Labor Temple + Jet City + Grand Illusion + Town Hall + 12th Ave Arts + Open Books + Wave Books + Third Place Books + Design in Public + Gay City + Vermillion