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Art in Times of Gray Democracy
GfZK Leipzig/Franciska Zólyom/Julia Kurz/Joanna Warsza

76 pp.
with numerous duotone images
saddle stitching



Leipzig December, 2015
ISBN: 9783944669786
Edition Number: 1

Width: 18 cm
Length: 26 cm

Language(s): English, German

Editor
GfZK Leipzig, Franciska Zólyom, Julia Kurz, Joanna Warsza

Designer
Leila Tabassomi, Stefan Walter

Text
Ulf Aminde, Pablo Helguera, Alexandra Pirici

Does art have the potential to stimulate and sustain political participation? On behalf of the Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Joanna Warsza invited the artists Alexandra Pirici, Pablo Helguera, and Ulf Aminde to Leipzig to try out three projects in public and semi-public spaces: Pirici staged a choreographic intervention at the Monument to the Battle of the Nations, Helguera an improvised speaking choir, and Aminde the dress rehearsal for an art strike. All the works were shown as part of the »Performative Democracy« series, whose title is taken from the book of the same name by Polish sociologist Elżbieta Matynia. It describes people as politically active creatures whose collective significance is derived from their actions. The publication Art in »Times of Gray Democracy« brings to a close the »Performative Democracy« series. It is produced in magazine format.