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.