Revolution I Love You: 1968 in Art Politics and Philosophy

Edited by Maja and Reuben Fowkes

Published by MIRIAD Manchester Metropolitan University
in association with Centre for Contemporary Art Thessaloniki,
Trafo House of Contemporary Arts Budapest (May 2008)

The exhibition publication considers the interconnection of art, politics and philosophy in 1968 across a divided Europe. It is a mosaic of interviews, statements and essays by prominent theorists, historians, curators, cultural workers and artists that shows the multipolar and interrelated experience of that extraordinary year.

Contents

Maja and Reuben Fowkes
Foreword
Kostis Kornetis
68, année symbolique
Rajko Grlić
I Witnessed the Rise and Fall of Possibly the Last Social Utopia
Viktor Misiano
1968 and the Critical Impulse in East and West
Kwiekulik
Shades of Red
Fia Stina Sandlund
The Way of Socialism
Jens Kastner
Aspects of the Guerilla Form: The Visual Arts and Social Movements around the Year 1968
Heath Bunting
The Status Project
Oliver Ressler
Globalising Protest
RugaNegra
The Fist Collection
Jean Baptiste Ganne
The Colour of Desire and Revolution
Łukasz Ronduda
Socart: Redefining the Relationship between Art and Politics
Mladen Stilinović
The Praise of Laziness
G.M. Tamás
A Day in August
Tamás St.Auby
Czechoslovak Radio 1968
Simon Ford
The Beginning of the End of an Era
Miklós Erhardt
Society of the Spectacle
Nancy Davenport
Screensavers
Stefanos Tsivopoulos
Untitled (The Remake)
Marko Lulić
Disco Wilhelm Reich
Krunoslav Stojaković
Philosophy as the ‘Science of Liberation’. Yugoslavia 1968
Katja Diefenbach
1968 and After: Some Comments on Singularity and Minoritarian Politics
Maja and Reuben Fowkes
Glossary of 1968

ISBN 978-1-905476-34-3
Price £14.99 / 20 euros

Distributed by:
Cornerhouse Manchester
www.cornerhouse.org

Also available on www.amazon.co.uk and in the exhibition venues.