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Only a Free Individual Can Create a Free Society -

Grace Schwindt, 2012

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What is freedom in your opinion?

It’s a word that is so complex that I needed over 200 questions to explore it. It’s almost as impossible as “identity” or “choice”. 

- Grace Schwindt, Glamcult Magazine

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"I work with dancers, firstly because of their movements, but also because it is easier for them to enunciate the way that I want them to in my work, to remove emotion and meaning. Neutrality is really hard, it’s a process of unlearning how we normally speak.”  

- Grace Schwindt

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Grace Schwindt’s Only A Free Individual Can Create A Free Society is a video installation whose feature-length duration and thematic elaboration are purposely composed to frustrate any conclusive assessment of the recent history of libertarian politics. To list the basics of its many-faceted aspects: 11 figures dressed in changing costumes fashioned variously from silk, velvet, cardboard and aluminium enact a series of modern balletic movements. A soundtrack includes fragments from a telephone conversation with a German taxi driver as he recounts observations from his activist student years, relating to such radical 60s and 70s left-wing groups as the Frankfurt School, the Baader-Meinhof gang and the Red Army Faction. Then, accompanying the projection, there’s a translucent porcelain vase precariously balanced on a plinth. Schwindt’s work, very obviously far from being a political tract, comes close to pondering the elusive quandary of freedom itself. Site Gallery, to 28 Feb

Robert Clark, The Guardian

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Triadisches Ballett (Triadic Ballet) is a ballet developed by Oskar Schlemmer. The ballet became the most widely performed avant-garde artistic dance and while Schlemmer was at the Bauhaus from 1921 to 1929, the ballet toured, helping to spread the ethos of the Bauhaus.

Thursday 26 February, 6pm 

Come along to our next Reading Group: Mechanical Ballets? an essay by Susanne Lahusen. This text explores the work of Schlemmer and the stage workshop of the Bauhaus (a significant influence on Grace Schwindt for her recent film, Only a Free Individual Can Create a Free Society.)

The group will be led by Michael White, Professor of History of Art at the University of York.