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Full Programme of TO THE SQUARE 2

TO THE SQUARE 2 (#TSQ2) re-invigorates the question of public space as the crucial locus for the articulation of the political and the art of protest. Read more.. Curated by Ivor Stodolsky and Marita Muukkonen Commissioned by Checkpoint Helsinki as … Continue reading

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Press release: Open call for Volunteers for a Performative Action by Khaled Jarrar (Palestine)

Press release, 5th of August, 2014 Open call for Volunteers for a Performative Action by Khaled Jarrar (Palestine) On Power, Dis-/Obedience and War Meeting point for volunteers: LASIPALATSI SQUARE at 5pm on Tuesday, 26 August Performance: The action starts at … Continue reading

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Ramy Essam

Ramy Essam is known as the “singer of Tahrir Square”. His song “Erhal” (“Leave”) of 2011 became the anthem of the Egyptian Revolution, and until today he continues his songs of protest. Related RAMY – In the Frontline Ramy & … Continue reading

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Khaled Jarrar

Works: For BACK TO (THE) SQUARE 1: Hunger Wall (performative action and installation of Finnish round bread and wood), Sea Level (video), Diver in Ramallah, (Photo-print on foil under plexiglass), Concrete (video), Football (sculpture). See installation views. For TO THE SQUARE … Continue reading

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RE-ALIGNED recieves commission from CHECKPOINT HELSINKI

December 2013 Perpetuum Mobilε ry has been commissioned by Checkpoint Helsinki to curate an exhibition-process about art and politics based on fresh curatorial research in the MENA (Middle East and Northern Africa) region, and the experience and ideas already developed in … Continue reading

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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.

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Pussy Riot

Ekaterina Samutsevic had experience at the Moscow Power Engineering Institute and a defense enterprise behind her, when she decided to study art.  Joining the actionist current in autumn 2011, she was a core co-founder of Pussy Riot. Of the three … Continue reading

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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

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Voina

is widely known for its provocative, politically-charged actions; most famously, perhaps, the monumental phallus they painted on a drawbridge in St. Petersburg which rose to stand erect facing the F.S.B. (KGB) headquarters. ////////////////////////////////////////////// Voina (Russian: Война = War) is a … Continue reading

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Viktoria Lomasko

Victoria Lomasko is probably most famous in the West for her drawings from the frontlines of the Pussy Riot trial. Starting with fraudulent Duma elections on December 4, 2011, and until November 2012, she kept a graphic “chronicle of resistance” … Continue reading

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