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29/9/2013

It's the Political Economy, Stupid

CZKD - Center for Cultural Decontamination, Belgrade

Curators: Oliver Ressler & Gregory Sholette

Artists:
Zanny Begg & Oliver Ressler / Filippo Berta / Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafsson / Julia Christensen / Paolo Cirio / Noel Douglas / Field Work / Yevgeniy Fiks, Olga Kopenkina, Alexandra Lerman / flo6x8 / Melanie Gilligan / Jan Peter Hammer / Alicia Herrero / Institute for Wishful Thinking / Sherry Millner & Ernie Larsen / Isa Rosenberger / Dread Scott

Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung is pleased to present the group exhibition titled It’s the Political Economy, Stupid. It brings together an international group of artists who focus on the current crisis in a sustained and critical manner. The show, which is curated by the Austrian-American team of Oliver Ressler and Gregory Sholette, derives its name from the slogan which in the early 1990s came to define then presidential candidate Bill Clinton’s campaign, “It’s the economy, stupid”. The exhibition will be seen for the first time in Serbia, after successful shows in Greece, United States, Austria and Finland.

While today artists normally avoid to work on the question of the crisis and capitalism in the world, this exhibition makes an exception. It shows international artists of all generations that confront problems of representation of capital, crisis and resistance. Their works are driven by the urgent need to respond to the crisis we are witnessing.
The economic crisis that we face today has also become a major crisis for representative democracy. The very idea of the modern nation state is in jeopardy as the deterritorialized flow of finance capital melts down all that was once solid into raw material for market speculation. It is the social order itself, and the very notion of governance with its archaic promise of security and happiness that has become another kind of modern ruin.
Rather than acquiesce to the current calamity, this exhibition asks if it is not time to push back against the disciplinary dictates of the capitalist logic and, by use of artistic means, launch a rescue of the very notion of the social itself.

A publication by Pluto Press with the same title accompanies the exhibition with detailed analysis of the artworks and theoretical contextualization related to the representation of the crisis and capital. Authors of the texts are internationally renowned artists and thinkers, including Slavoj Žižek, David Graeber, Judith Butler and Brian Holmes. The book combines artistic answers on global economical problems with the analysis of those radical theoreticians, expanding the borders of a critical approach towards financial breakdown and its consequences.

Detailed program: http://www.rosalux.rs/en/artikl.php?id=290

Opening: 30th of September 2013, 6 PM
Introduction of the program, exhibitions, artists and talks on the politics of visual representation of the crisis and protests
Participants: Noel Douglas (London), Collective ŠKART (Belgrade), Association Kurs (Belgrade)
Moderated by: Boris Kanzleiter, Vladan Jeremić
Simultaneous translation: English - Serbian

CZKD - Center for Cultural Decontamination
Paviljon Veljković, Birčaninova 21, Belgrade, Serbia

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