IT’S THE POLITICAL ECONOMY, STUPID
FILIPPO BERTA (IT), JULIA CHRISTENSEN (US), FIELD WORK (DK), YEVGENIY FIKS, OLGA KOPENKINA & ALEXANDRA LERMAN (US), FLO6x8 (ES), MELANIE GILLIGAN (CA), JAN PETER HAMMER (DE), ALICIA HERRERO (AR), INSTITUTE FOR WISHFUL THINKING (US), SHERRY MILLNER & ERNIE LARSEN (US), ÓLAFUR ÓLAFSSON (IS) & LIBIA CASTRO (ES), ISA ROSENBERGER (AT), DREAD SCOTT (US), SUPERFLEX (DK), ZANNY BEGG (AU) & OLIVER RESSLER (AT)
Curated by Oliver Ressler & Gregory Sholette
It’s the Political Economy, Stupid brings together a group of superlative artists who focus on the current crisis in a sustained and critical manner. Rather than acquiesce to our current calamity this exhibition asks if it is not time to push back against the disciplinary dictates of the capitalist logic and, as if by some artistic sorcery, launch a rescue of the very notion of the social itself.
Additional program has been scheduled, on the occasion of the exhibition:
Kiasma Theatre, Helsinki:
Work shop Oliver Ressler: Alternative Economics, Alternative Societies, 28 January at 10-16.00 and 29 January at 10-13.30, advance enrolment
Lecture and book launch Oliver Ressler: Take The Square, 29 January at 15.00, free admission Oliver Ressler will present the exhibition and the publication “It’s the Political Economy, Stupid: The Global Financial Crisis in Art and Theory” published by Pluto Press (UK) and Pori Art Museum
Pori Art Museum lecture serie
Lecture Oliver Ressler: Spatial Occupations 30 September 2013 at 18.30 Pori Art Museum, lecture hall, free admission
Curator and Artist Talks
Friday 01 February 2013 at 12.00 Oliver Ressler and flo6x8 group will be present, free admission
Opening Friday 01 February 2013 at 18.00, opening performance by flo6x8 group
The exhibition It’s the Political Economy, Stupid launched a preview exhibition at Open Space in Vienna (2011), continued at Austrian Cultural Forum in New York and Centre of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki (both 2012). The show at Pori Art Museum is carried out in co-operation with Austrian Embassy (Helsinki)
PUBLICATION:
It’s the Political Economy, Stupid
The Global Financial Crisis in Art and Theory
Publications of the Pori Art Museum 117
Editors: Gregory Sholette, Oliver Ressler
ISBN: 978-952-5648-36-2
ISSN: 0359-4327
Extent: 192 pages
Year of Publication: 2013
Size: 240mm x 170mm
Format: Hardcover, glued
Illustrations: 45 photographs
Publisher: Published by Chase Publishing Services Ltd for Pluto Press and the Pori Art Museum
Language: English
Graphic Design: Noel Douglas
Photographs: David Plakke, Oliver Ressler