NOWs: Red Love. A Reader on Alexandra Kollontai – Discussion and Book Launch

12 March 2020 / Nows

Red Love: A Reader on Alexandra Kollontai

Discussion and Book Launch with Bini Adamczak, Maria Lind, Mechele Masucci, Aaron Schuster, Sophia Tabatadze, Oxana Timofeeva, Mohammad Salemy and Joanna Warsza

Cabinet
Ebersstrasse 3
10827 Berlin (careful: not Ebertstrasse)

12 March, 7 pm

On the occasion of the release of Red Love: A Reader on Alexandra Kollontai, please join us for an evening dedicated to exploring the legacy of the Soviet writer and revolutionary. Appointed the People’s Commissar of Social Welfare after the October Revolution, Kollontai worked to introduce a number introduction of crucial reforms for women’s liberation, including abortion rights, secularized marriage, and paid maternity leave. For her, “comradely love” was a fully political force.

The evening’s discussion featuring several of the contributors to the anthology—Bini Adamczak, Michele Masucci, Aaron Schuster, Sophia Tabatadze, Oxana Timofeeva, and Mohammad Salemy—will be moderated by two of the anthology’s editors, Maria Lind and Joanna Warsza. In addition to presenting this historical figure, we will ask how to read Kollontai’s vision of love today and how to relate it to current feminist struggles?

The anthology stems from research conducted by CuratorLab at Konstfack University in Stockholm and by Tensta konsthall in the context of an exhibition by Dora García in 2018.

Drinks and red borscht will be served.

NOWs: Jan St. Werner + Guests at Ausland

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Fiebplatter Catalogue: Jan St. Werner and Guestsconcert, salon, club night AUSLAND Lychener Str. 60 10437 Berlin 14 March 2020 Doors 7:30 pm, Start 8:30 pm | 9 EUR | @facebook – tickets at the door | detailed timetable TBA in March – CC No. 2 – Craving Coincidence pt. 1 Premiere! For our new series CC No. 2 – Craving Coincidence, we’ve invited six musicians to curate one long ausland-night each, inbetween concert evening, salon and club night. They’re weaving their own concert into a heterogenuos programme featuring contributions by further artists. Tonight’s first edition was put together by Jan St. Werner (Microstoria, Mouse on Mars), who’ll bring Olivia Block, PITA, Rosa Barba, Patricia Reed and Eleni Poulou with him to ausland, and present the book “Decay Object” together with Rupert Smyth. The evening as such becomes part of St. Werner’s long-term project “Fiepblatter Catalogue”. At project space Farbvision, the exhibition format Fiepblatter Short Decay Store follows the next weekend. OLIVIA BLOCK live – electronics – www.oliviablock.net PITA live – electronics – www.editionsmego.com/pita JAN ST. WERNER live – electronics – www.thrilljockey.com/jan-st-werner ROSA BARBA: “Somnium” – film screening – www.rosabarba.com/somnium-2011 PATRICIA REED: “Frames of Reference for the Inexistent” – diagrammatic lecture – www.aestheticmanagement.com ELENI POULOU DJ-Set yiuu.bandcamp.com JAN ST. WERNER + RUPERT SMYTH: “Decay Object” – book presentation – www.rupertsmyth.com Cancelled: Sat /Sun March 21/22 FIEPBLATTER SHORT DECAY STORE at Farbvision In connection to the CC No. 2-live programme at ausland, Farbvision presents an exhibition by Jan St. Werner referring to his long-term project Fieplatter Catalogue on the weekend of March 21/22 including graphics and artwork related to the series, special collectables and the complete Fiepblatter Catalogue-recordings. Instead of the fiepblatter record store at farbvision, the new book is available at the fiepblatter catalogue bandcamp store: fiepblatter.bandcamp.com fiepblatter.bandcamp.com/merch/decay-object-fiepblatter-catalogue-7 Fiebplatter Catalogue: Jan St. Werner and Guestsconcert, salon, club night AUSLAND Lychener Str. 60 10437 Berlin 14. März 2020 Doors 19:30 Uhr, Start 20:30 Uhr | 9 EUR | @facebook – tickets at the door | detailed timetable TBA in March – CC No. 2 – Craving Coincidence pt. 1 Premiere! Zur neuen ausland-Reihe CC No. 2 – Craving Coincidence sind sechs Musiker*innen eingeladen, je einen langen Abend frei zu gestalten: Sie stellen ihren eigenen Auftritt in den Kontext eines heterogenen Programms zwischen Konzertabend, Salon und Clubnacht. Den Auftakt heute macht Jan St. Werner (Microstoria, Mouse on Mars), der Olivia Block, PITA, Rosa Barba, Patricia Reed und Eleni Poulou ins ausland mitbringt und zusammen mit Rupert Smyth das Buch “Decay Object” präsentieren wird. Der Abend wird selbst zu einem Teil von St. Werners Langzeitprojekt “Fiepblatter Catalogue”. Am nächsten Wochenende folgt im Projektraum Farbvision das Ausstellungsformat Fiepblatter Short Decay Store. OLIVIA BLOCK live – electronics – www.oliviablock.net PITA live – electronics – www.editionsmego.com/pita JAN ST. WERNER live – electronics – www.thrilljockey.com/jan-st-werner ROSA BARBA: “Somnium” – film screening – www.rosabarba.com/somnium-2011 PATRICIA REED: “Frames of Reference for the Inexistent” – diagrammatic lecture – www.aestheticmanagement.com ELENI POULOU DJ-Set yiuu.bandcamp.com JAN ST. WERNER + RUPERT SMYTH: “Decay Object” – book presentation – www.rupertsmyth.com Cancelled: Sat /Sun March 21/22 FIEPBLATTER SHORT DECAY STORE at Farbvision In connection to the CC No. 2-live programme at ausland, Farbvision presents an exhibition by Jan St. Werner referring to his long-term project Fieplatter Catalogue on the weekend of March 21/22 including graphics and artwork related to the series, special collectables and the complete Fiepblatter Catalogue-recordings. Instead of the fiepblatter record store at farbvision, the new book is available at the fiepblatter catalogue bandcamp store: fiepblatter.bandcamp.com fiepblatter.bandcamp.com/merch/decay-object-fiepblatter-catalogue-7

NOWs: Mindscapes by Elise Eeraerts and Claude Cattelain

08 March - 26 April 2020 / Nows ⟶

Mindscapesexhibition by Elise Eeraerts and Claude Cattelain Opening 8 March, 3 pm – 7 pm Plagiarama Rivoli Building C24 690 chaussée de Waterloo / Waterloosesteenweg Brussels, Belgium exhibition concept by Yuna Mathieu-Chovet The works of Elise Eeraerts and Claude Cattelain rely upon strong ties that unite them to the materials they work with. They both work from simple raw material, with only light transformations. Transfers, movements and balances of materials are at the heart of their practices, with particular attention paid to prehistoric and early cultures. Elise Eeraerts presents soil samples containing several centuries of geological history. She considers human traces on nature, as well as the scientific, mathematical and chemical representations of it, and she is interested in the geometry resulting from observations. Her most recent works on metals and their conductive qualities has led her to work with technological means. Claude Cattelain challenges the environment through performance. The place of the body is central: a “ferryman”, the center of intention, is the one who relates human construction to nature. His works are commensurate to his own body. He is attached to ancestral gestures and rituals: leaving a trace in the clay, placing objects in balance or igniting an object. He expresses the body as a support that distributes energies. The artists question their environment by showing a keen interest in the landscape, nature and the human impact on its biotope, both personally and collectively. By using the notion of landscape in relation to humans, the artists are returning to interiority, while including the human in its context. They highlight that access to outside is made through inside and invite us to observe our own mental landscape. Mindscapesexhibition by Elise Eeraerts and Claude Cattelain Opening 8 March, 3 pm – 7 pm Plagiarama Rivoli Building C24 690 chaussée de Waterloo / Waterloosesteenweg Brussels, Belgium exhibition concept by Yuna Mathieu-Chovet The works of Elise Eeraerts and Claude Cattelain rely upon strong ties that unite them to the materials they work with. They both work from simple raw material, with only light transformations. Transfers, movements and balances of materials are at the heart of their practices, with particular attention paid to prehistoric and early cultures. Elise Eeraerts presents soil samples containing several centuries of geological history. She considers human traces on nature, as well as the scientific, mathematical and chemical representations of it, and she is interested in the geometry resulting from observations. Her most recent works on metals and their conductive qualities has led her to work with technological means. Claude Cattelain challenges the environment through performance. The place of the body is central: a “ferryman”, the center of intention, is the one who relates human construction to nature. His works are commensurate to his own body. He is attached to ancestral gestures and rituals: leaving a trace in the clay, placing objects in balance or igniting an object. He expresses the body as a support that distributes energies. The artists question their environment by showing a keen interest in the landscape, nature and the human impact on its biotope, both personally and collectively. By using the notion of landscape in relation to humans, the artists are returning to interiority, while including the human in its context. They highlight that access to outside is made through inside and invite us to observe our own mental landscape.

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NOWs: Red Love. A Reader on Alexandra Kollontai – Discussion and Book Launch

Red Love: A Reader on Alexandra Kollontai

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