Reading Aleksandra Kollontai
For the academic year 2017/2018 CuratorLab will engage in a collaborative research on the life and work of Russian revolutionary feminist and diplomat Aleksandra Kollontai.
Kollontai was a pioneer in her political engagement and writing on sexual politics. She fought for workers rights advocating a participatory organization of production. As a socialist and Marxist she worked directly with women workers during the years of the October Revolution engaging with social emancipation, the right for divorce, abortion and the critique of bourgeois family relations. She was one of the first to promote a radical feminist critique of relations between the sexes. Providing a transformative critique of conservative sexual moral, based on patriarchal norms and private property relations. As one of the first female diplomats Aleksandra Kollontai served as Soviet Ambassador in Stockholm between 1930-1945.
How can we relate, portray and engage critically with this historical figure? What is to be learnt from Kollontais political thinking and personal life? How does Kollontai resonate with contemporary compositions of feminist struggles questioning not only gender relations and class, but also race and intersecting forms of power relations?
Each reading session will host guests bringing their suggested reading, presentations and topics for discussion: Shabane Barot, Petra Bauer, Rebecka Thor, Michael Hardt and Michele Masucci and others.
Session 1: Thursday 7th of September – Michele Masucci – Introduction to the life and work of Aleksandra Kollontai – Tensta Konsthall
Session 2 – Monday 13th of November– Shabane Barot – Tensta Konsthall
Session 3 – Thursday 22nd February – Petra Bauer and Rebecka Thor – Tensta Konsthall
Session 4 – Monday 14th of May – TBC – Tensta Konsthall
For the first session we will start with reading Kollontais text “Make way for Winged Eros: A Letter to Working Youth” and from there possibly trace back and forward in Kollontais life and other writing. This text she wrote in 1923 as a response to many letters she received from young workers with questions to her on how to live and conduct life under socialism. Here she develops many productive concepts and progressive ideas on love. Please find the text online or by signing up to the reading group.
Please follow CuratorLab on facebook for updates, Konstfack website or by subscribing to the reading group newsletter.
To sign up for the reading group or for more information please contact michele.masucci@konstfack.se.
När: 7 september 2017 11:00 - 7 september 2017 15:00
Var: Tensta Konsthall, Taxinge gränd 10 / Stockholm
Arrangör: CuratorLab at Konstfack University
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