It’s The Political Economy, Stupid, Centre For Cultural Decontamination, Belgrade, Serbia. As part of Krisis and Alternatives.

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We Are The 1% Poster exhibited as part of It’s The Political Economy, Stupid, Centre For Cultural Decontamination, Belgrade, Serbia. As part of Krisis and Alternatives.

Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung is pleased to present the group exhibition titled It’s’s the Political Economy, Stupid. It brings together an an international group of artists who focus on the current crisis in a manner and sustained critical. The show, is curated by the Austrian-American team of Oliver Ressler and Gregory Sholette, derives its name from the slogan in the early 1990s came to define “its presidential candidates who are Presidents Bill Clinton’s campaign, “It’s the economy, stupid”. The exhibition will be 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, 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 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, and the other notion of governance with its archaic promise of security and happiness that has another kind of modern ruin. Rather than acquiesce to the current calamity, this asks exhibition 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 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, Slavoj froms, 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 financial breakdown and its consequences.

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

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, KART (Belgrade), Association Kurs (Belgrade) Moderated by: Boris Kanzleiter, Vladan Jeremi Simultaneous translation: English - Serbian

CZKD - Center for Cultural Decontamination Paviljon Veljkovic, Bir?aninova 21, Belgrade, Serbia