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Konstfack CuratorLab launches the book "Red Love: A Reader on Alexandra Kollontai"
How to read Kollontai’s vision of love and relate it to current feminist struggles.
CuratorLab and Tensta konsthall welcome you to the launch of the book Red Love: A Reader on Alexandra Kollontai
Wednesday 26 February, 5 to 7 pm, at Konstfack
With Petra Bauer, Maria Lind, Michele Masucci, Agneta Pleijel and Joanna Warsza
Alexandra Kollontai was a writer and a Bolshevik revolutionary. After the 1917 October Revolution, she was elected as the People’s Commissar for Social Welfare and one of the first female ambassadors in the world, serving in Norway and later for 15 years in Sweden. She introduced crucial reforms for women’s liberation such as abortion rights, secularized marriage and paid maternity leave; she considered ‘comradely love’ to be a political force. Red Love is the reader devoted to her legacy stemming from research by CuratorLab at Konstfack and Dora García’s exhibition Red Love at Tensta konsthall in 2018.
During the event, this historical figure, Alexandra Kollontai, will be presented, and the discussion will center on how to read her vision of love and relate it to current feminist struggles.
The book also includes the play Kollontai (1977) by Agneta Pleijel, which is published for the first time in English.
Edited by Maria Lind, Michele Masucci, Joanna Warsza and CuratorLab 2017/2018 participants Aly Grimes, Malin Hüber, Nicholas John Jones, Martyna Nowicka-Wojnowska, Alessandra Prandin, Dimitrina Sevova, Sophia Tabatadze, Federico Del Vecchio, and Hannah Zafiropoulos.
Contributions by Bini Adamczak, Sara Ahmed, Giulia Andreani, Lise Haller Baggesen, Petra Bauer & Rebecka Thor, Dora García, Michael Hardt, Pontus Pettersson, Jonathan Brooks Platt, Agneta Pleijel, Nina Power, Paul B. Preciado, Alla Mitrofanova, Martyna Nowicka-Wojnowska, Michele Masucci, Maria Lind, Aaron Schuster, Oxana Timofeeva, Mohammad Salemy, Sally Schonfeldt, Sophia Tabatadze, Tomas Rafa, Alicja Rogalska, Joanna Warsza, and Hannah Zafiropoulos.
Graphic design by Jiri Novak
Published by Konstfack Collection, Sternberg Press, and Tensta konsthall.
Available in Konstfack's reception and in bookshops. Link to the open access
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Next book launches: Berlin, 12 March at Cabinet. New York, 1 April at Bar Laika by e-flux
Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design, LM Ericssons väg 14, subway station Telefonplan
