4. oktober 2018
13.00 – 15.00

Ime česa je svoboda?

xx FOKUS MARWA ARSANIOS

Bralnica, aktivacija št. 1*
Otvoritveni panel

»Nemoč spremeniti neoliberalni sistem, ki oblikuje in zatira vsakodnevno življenje na vseh družbenih ravneh, kakor tudi hkratno paradoksalno upiranje dominantnim družbenim strukturam, nas napeljujeta k premisleku o tem, kaj so politike osvobajanja ali njene revolucionarne prakse danes. Pridevnik 'revolucionaren' je nabit z idejo o tem, da so te prakse politično angažirane in družbeno transformativne v povsem konkretnem kontekstu. Dejstvo je, da so vse družbene revolucije vzniknile zunaj dominantnih ideoloških, ekonomskih in političnih struktur, da bi se spopadle z neznosnimi pogoji vsakodnevnega življenja v določenem trenutku. Vsaka izmed njih je vzpostavila nov družbeni red, utemeljen na radikalni imaginaciji vsakdanjega življenja. Z drugimi besedami: družbene revolucije so se vselej bojevale za svobodo, družbeno pravičnost in novo osvobajajočo legalnost z 'ilegalnimi' sredstvi. Toda, kaj se zgodi, ko vsa ta dejstva postanejo romantizirane različice prihodnosti in ko svoboda postane temeljni koncept neoliberalne družbe?” (Jelena Petrović)

Na otvoritvenem panelu bodo svoje pozicije predstavile Jelena Petrović, Marina Gržinić in Anja Zalta.

Sledil bo vodeni ogled razstave Kdo se boji ideologije? z umetnico Marwo Arsanios.

Vstop prost.

 

*Dogodek je del projekta Bralnica na razstavi Kdo se boji ideologije? Marwe Arsanios.

Umetnice in sodelujoče
Jelena Petrović
Marina Gržinić
Anja Zalta
Video

What does Freedom stand for?

xx FOCUS MARWA ARSANIOS

The Reading Room, Activation no. 1*
Opening Panel Discussion

“The impossibility to change neoliberal systems which shape
and oppress everyday life on all social levels, as well as the
simultaneous and paradoxical act of playing and resisting dominant
social structures, make us rethink what the politics of liberation or
its revolutionary practices of today are. The attribute ‘revolutionary,’
means that those practices are politically engaged and socially
transformative in a very concrete context. The fact is that all social
revolutions have emerged outside of dominant ideological, economical,
and political structures in order to cope with the unbearable conditions
of common life in certain times. Each of them generated a new social
order grounded in the radical imagination of everyday life. In other
words, social revolutions always fought for freedom, social justice and
new liberating legality through ‘illegal’ means. But what happens when
all those facts become romanticized versions of futures and when the
freedom is used as a key concept of neoliberal society?” (Jelena
Petrović)

The opening panel discussion will present the positions of Jelena Petrović, Marina Gržinić and Anja Zalta and will be followed by a guided tour of the exhibition Who is afraid of Ideology? with the artist Marwa Arsanios. 

*The event is part of the Reading Room project at the Who is afraid of Ideology? exhibition by Marwa Arsanios.