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Kunstforum Newsletter on TO THE SQUARE 2
Kunstforum Newsletter, the highly respected German art-news source, reports on TO THE SQUARE 2, linking it to the history of urban squares and uprisings globally. Article below: Aktionen & Projekte: To the Square 2 Am 3. und 4. Juni 1989 … Continue reading
My Daddy is a Policeman. What Does He Do at Work?
The coloring book My Daddy is a Policeman. What Does He Do at Work? by Marina Naprushkina appeared as a part of the civil campaign against police violence in Belarus called “Beware, police!”. The campaign was initiated by the Belarusian … Continue reading
VillmarksLiv (a brief comment on 22 July, media-memory, visual neoconservatism and the oil-welfare-state)
Learning Mural, approx. 23 metres in length and 4.4metres in height, 2nd floor. Not only due to its excruciating subject matter, this “brief comment” on over 23 x 4 metres of wall space has been a focus of the Norwegian … Continue reading
Turmoil on Bus Number 23, video, (07:29), 2011
In this performance, or what automatically becomes an act of civil disobedience in a police state, Denis Limonov rails against the injustices in his native Belarus. For this intervention carried out in 2011, he chose a very public and very … Continue reading
Eat Oil, Drink Oil
In this new work, commissioned for RE-ALIGNED ART in Tromsø, Mikhail Dolyanovsky addresses the power and belief in oil and its representatives. Despite its remote location from the capitals of art and politics, Tromsø has recently been marked out as … Continue reading
Rebel Karaoke, 2011-2013, Interactive Video Installation
Rebel Karaoke is precisely what it says it is: a sing-and-shout-along machine for engaging in revolutionary songs and chants. All of them were recorded on a street near you… This audiovisual installation includes material from the latest political events and demonstrations … Continue reading
Re-Reading Room
Textual, discursive and educational formats form an important aspect of “re-aligned”, political or engaged art. Here is a space for the RE-READING of these materials. It also gives a room for the potential discussion and re-activation of the ideas they … Continue reading
Translit
was founded in 2005, and is a literary-critical anthology, publishing outfit and community of poets, philosophers and humanities scholars, who bring forward various fields of confrontation in contemporary literary theory and the literary process.
Denis Limonov
is a Belarusian artist and activist of the Mogilev-based Lime Blossom group. “Drawing public attention to the problem of constitutional fascism in the republic,” he notoriously claimed responsibility for a terrorist act in Minsk, in an attempt to disrupt the … Continue reading
