The Kids Want Communism Closing and Final Weekend โค๏ธ ย โญ
After the closing and final weekend of The Kids Want Communism at MoBY and at Kunstraum Kreuzberg Bethanien (curated by Joshua Simon), we would like to say thank you to everyone who has been involved and supported this project!
TKWC would not have been the same without the participation and collaboration with: Bini Admczak; Toy Boy; Diego Castro; Maya Elran, Efraim Davidi; Tamar Gozansky; Max Epstein; FAMU Prague program curated by Tereza Stejskalovรก: Nabil Maleh, Piyasiri Gunaratna, Krishma (Krishna) Viswanath, and Nosratollah Karimi; Tal Gafny; Nadya Bakuradze; Michal Helfman; Jacob Blumenfeld; Michael Jones McKean; Jonathan Gold; Nir Harel; Raanan Harlap; Micah Hesse; Ivonne Dippmann and Agnes Friedrich, The Israel Communist Party Archive (MAKI); Nikita Kadan; Jakob Koesten; Mati Lahat; Hila Laviv and Dana Yoeli; Ohad Meromi; Ian Svenonius; Stano Filko; Olaf Nicolai; Tamar Nissim; Ingo Niermann; Angela Dimitrakaki; Jonas Staal; James Bridle; Vincent van Gerven Oei; Irena Haiduk; Kostis Stafylakis; "Notes on Division" (curated by iLiana Fokianaki): Konstantinos Kotsis, Yota Ioannidou, Antonis Pittas, Yorgos Sapountzis, and Vangelis Vlaho; Praxis School archive curated by Vladimir Vidmar; Yuri Primenko; Katya Oicherman; Natalia Kopelanskaya; The New Barbizon: Zoya Cherkassky, Olga Kundina, Anna Lukashevsky, Asya Lukin, and Natalia Zourabova; Nicole Wermers; Noa Yafe; Ekaterina Degot.
It has been amazing to see TKWC evolve and grow together with institutions around the world throughout 2016 and 2017: tranzit, Prague; The Visual Culture Research Center, Kyiv; Free/Slow University Warsaw; State of Concept, Athens; Skuc Gallery, Ljubljana; West Space, Melbourne; Marx200; CCA Tel Aviv; The Young Communist League of Israel (BANKI); The Left Bank; SDAJ; ZHdK and Corner College; Northwestern University; Erev Rav; Artis Contemporary; Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin; Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung; Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung - Israel Office; MoBY Museums of Bat Yam.
The Kids Want Communism was organized by iLiana Kokianaki, Vladimir Vidmar, Oleksiy Radynski, Vit Havranek, Patrice Sharkey, Kuba Szreder, and Joshua Simon.
Thank you to everyone who helped make this project happen and kept us going!! Naama Henkin, Meir Tati, Noa Tsaushu, Avi Bohbot, Ofir Finkelstein, Alina Yakirevitch, Nechama Winston, Michal Raz, Nufar Kaplan, Shulamit Bialy, George Choresh, Jonathan Goldstein, Moyu Honda, Ariel Blitz, Rani Rosenheim, Shimon Malka, Moran Paz, Layne Goldman, Jordan Selan, Michelle Paterok, Matthew Turell, Ofri Omer, Yafir Ido, Sassi Mazor, Danielle Kaganov, Yael Meromi, Tamir Davidov, Tali Konas, Tsafrir Cohen, Raffi Gueta, Stephane Bauer, Theres Laux, Esther Tusch, and many others.
We're excited for The Kids Want Communism book which will be published next year!
The book "Communists Anonymous," edited by Joshua Simon and Ingo Niermann, will be published by the end of the year in the Solution Series by Sternberg Press in Berlin.ย
We would like to celebrate The Kids Want Communism with a recap of all the events, conversations, exhibitions, and conferences that have taken place in the last two years below.ย
The Museums of Bat Yam โ MoBY, Israel:
The Kids Want Communism, Installment One
Ekaterina Degot: Shockworkers of the Mobile Image
Kuba Szreder: The Political Economy of Art and Beyond
The Kids Want Communism, Installment Twoย
Also see here, here andย here
โThe Future Is Ours,โ Reunion of The Young Communist League of Israelย
Also see hereย for stories from the history of The Young Communist League of IsraelโBANKI
The 10th Marx Forum in Israel: โImperialism Then and Nowโ
As Radical As Reality Itself
The Kids Want Communism, Installment Three / Final Installmentย
Also see here,ย here and here
Artist Talk with Tamar Nissim and Tal Gafny
Artist Talk with Max Epstein and book launch of RESTRooM
2017 Marx Conference: 100 Years after the October Revolution
Finissage and party for the exhibition series The Kids Want Communism and 100 years to the October revolution
The Visual Culture Research Center, Kyiv, Ukraine:
The Postman always rings twice: Why does history repeat itself? Day 1
The Postman always rings twice: Why does history repeat itself? Day 2
tranzit, Prague, Czech Republic:
First congress of the Union of Soviet Artists/ painting symposium and exhibition
Also see hereย and here for an interview with the initiators of the First congress of the Union of Soviet Artists in Prague (Artalk magazine, September 6th, 2016)
ล kuc gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia:
Nikita Kadan: Above the pedestal the air condenses in a dark cloud
Free/Slow University Warsaw, Poland:
Summer camp hosted by the Free/Slow University of Warsaw
State of Concept, Athens, Greece:
Solution Communism, aย one day symposium organized by iLiana Fokianaki, Ingo Niermann and Joshua Simonย
Also see here for video recordings of some of the talks, panel discussion and Q+A
Seeย ย โAssemblismโ by artist Jonas Staal, inย ย e-flux journal issue #80. The text came out of a lecture presented at the conference Solution Communism
West Space, Melbourne, Australia:
The Kids Want Communism at West Space
ZHdK and Corner College, Zรผrich, Switzerland:
Guest lecture of the Postgraduate Programme in Curating CAS/ MAS ZHdK โ
Joshua Simon: Verschรผttete Traditionen // The Great Soviet Encyclopedia: Communism and The Dividual
Northwestern University, Chicago, USA:
Visiting Artist Lecture, in collaboration with the Graham Foundation: Joshua Simon, The Great Soviet Encyclopedia: Communism and The Dividual
The second gathering for Solution Communism on April 6, 2017
Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin, Germany:
The Kids Want Communism in Berlin, to mark 100 years of the Bolshevik Revolutionย (also see hereย and here)
Also see here forย an interview published online by the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung in Israel with Joshua Simon
Photos from the Vernissageย (also see here)
A celebration of 100 years of Soviet Revolution: Lecture & music
โค๏ธย ย +ย ย a playlist