"collaborations in curating, research and writing
to create translocal knowledge and experience
"

Revolution is not a Garden Party  


The exhibition publication brings together the artistic response to contemporary revolution represented by the exhibition and new reflections on the relationship between art and revolution by theorists and art historians.

Contents
Foreword
Contributors

It includes illustrations and interviews with the artists, and new essays by Gerald Raunig, Benda Hofmeyr, Simon Sheikh, Chus Martinez and Maja and Reuben Fowkes that engage with issues such as art and revolution, aesthetics and politics, and ecology and anarchism.

Additionally, responses to individual works in the exhibition highlight the variety of experiences and understandings of revolution in the context of contemporary art.

It is published by MIRIAD, the Manchester Metropolitan University Research Institute for advanced cultural inquiry and creativity, and distributed by Cornerhouse Manchester www.cornerhouse.org/books




Maja and Reuben Fowkes
copyright 2005