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Transformative Art Production

Transformative Art Production

Online compendium of the seminar Art Production in Restriction. Possibilities of Transformative Art Production and Coalition-Building, held in Trondheim, 2015

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Author: Ivor Stodolsky

Ivor A Stodolsky is a curator, writer and theoretician based in Finland, Germany and France. In his engaged curatorial practice, he organises exhibitions, conferences and events relating art and politics internationally, and is also the the editor of related publications and films. Recent projects include Pluriculturalism (Moderna Museet, Malmö), The Square (a newspaper), Back To Square 1 and To The Square 2 (Checkpoint Helsinki), the 4th Roma-Gypsy Pavilion (Cineromani Berlin), Re-Public (Urb Festival, Kiasma, Helsinki), Re-Aligned Art from Russia, Ukraine and Belarus (Tromsø Kunstforening), Re-Aligned/Media Impact (Moscow Biennale) as well as many other Perpetuum Mobile projects. Ivor’s curatorial practice is informed by his theoretical interests at the intersections of art, politics, history and philosophy. He holds a BA in Philosophy and Mathematics from Bristol University, an MRes from the London Consortium (Birkbeck, Tate, ICA, BFI and AA), and was a researcher at the Aleksanteri Institute, Helsinki University and in the field in St. Petersburg. http://PerpetualMobile.org
Contribution

When Politics Becomes Form. The Venice Biennale, 2015

Ivor Stodolsky

On Karl Marx’s birthday this year, a six-month public reading of Das Kapital was iniated not far from a video-installation documenting the thoughts of two leading Marxists of our time – Stuart Hall and David Harvey. On the same day, the same artist who initiated these politically-charged projects launched a preview of a new film. …When Politics Becomes Form. The Venice Biennale, 2015

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