Gerald Raunig Art and Revolution

"AND is neither one thing nor the other, it's always in-between, between two things; it's the borderline, there's always a border, a line of flight or flow, only we don't see it, because it's the least perceptible of things. And yet it's along this line of flight that things come to pass, becomings evolve, revolutions take shape" - Gilles Deleuze

Art and Revolution: Philosophy Workshop with Gerald Raunig.
Friday April 10, 1-6pm
Serial Space
33 Wellington St, Chippendale
Free (but places are limited, please register by emailing contactyouarehere[at]gmail.com)

Gerald Raunig is a philosopher and art theoretician who is interested in the points of connection between art and activism. He lives in Vienna and works at the European Institute for Progressive Cultural Policies. He is the co-ordinator of the transnational research projects republicart and transform; a university lecturer at the Institute for Philosophy, University of Klagenfurt; and a member of the editorial board of the multilingual webjournal transversal and the Austrian journal for radical democratic cultural politics, Kulturrisse.

His recent books include: Art and Revolution. Transversal Activism in the Long Twentieth Century, New York/ Los Angeles: Semiotext(e)/MIT Press 2007; Art and Contemporary Critical Practice. Reinventing Institutional Critique, London: mayflybooks 2008 (Ed., with Gene Ray); A Thousand Machines, translated by Aileen Derieg, New York/ Los Angeles: Semiotext(e)/MIT Press 2009. He is in Sydney for a conference at Artspace.

Workshop program :

1pm - 2pm Gerald Raunig - The Three Components of the Revolutionary Machine
The readings for this workshop are from the introduction and first chapter of Gerald Raunig's book Art and Revolution which investigates the practices emerging in neighbouring zones where art and revolution overlap for a limited time, in more or less developed forms.

2pm - 3pm Discussion

3pm - Hot (not-so) Cross Buns and Easter Eggs

4 - 5pm Gerald Raunig - Art, Revolution and the Counter-Globalisation Movement
The readings for this workshop are from the last chapter of Art and Revolution where Gerald Raunig explores how art and activism have overlapped through some of the experiences of the counter-globalisation movement.

5pm - 6pm Discussion

7pm - Dinner at Serial Space

Readings:

Chapter 1 and 6 of Art and Revolution: Transversal Activism in the Long Twentieth Century by Gerald Raunig, Semiotext(e), 2007

To collect your readings:
- pick them up from Serial Space (on top of the Piano outside the front door)
- download PDF of readings here
- email zanny.b[at]gmail.com to have a copy posted to you

Workshop coordinated by Nathan Babet, Zanny Begg and Keg de Souza, for more information: contactyouarehere[at]gmail.com.