Confronted with new cultural forms of national crisis management we want to discuss critical potentials of a realist actualization in art. Therefore we take the struggle with history as our starting point. We choose the realism debates from the 1920s/1930s and 1960s/1970s as well as later examples of filmic reconstructions in order to discuss the present conditions of art making.
Research Materials:
Critique of Nationalism
- Max Klebb: Collectivizing Anti-National Refusal
- The Timeline Group: Front Matter - Nationalism reloaded; Reflections
- Der Nation Das Herz Brechen. Das Event zur Varusschlacht Verderben.
- I Can't Relax in Deutschland
Debates on Realism
- Eugene Lunn: Marxism and Art in the Era of Stalin and Hitler: A Comparison of Brecht and
- Scott J. Thompson: From 'Rausch' to Rebellion: Walter Benjamin's On Hashish and the Aesthetic Dimensions of Prohibitionist Realism
- Frederic Jameson’s Afterword to Aesthetics and Politics: Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Ernst Bloch, Bertolt Brecht, Georg Lukacs
- Julia Lesage: Godard and Gorin's left politics, 1967-1972
- Interview with Klaus Herding: Das Überzeitliche im Realismus
Reconstructions and Actualizations
- Walter Benjamin: Convolute N – On the Theory of Knowledge, Theory of Progress
- Walter Benjamin: On the Concept of History
- Claude Lanzmann: Pourqoi Israel (1974), Shoah (1985), Tsahal (1994), Sobibor (2001)
- Rebond: La Commune (2000)
- Jeremy Deller: The Battle of Orgreave(2001)
Police Art 2009
- 2000 Years Varus Battle. COLOSSAL – Art Fact Fiction
- 60 Years in Germany - Warming up to an Uncomfortable Identity
- SIXTY YEARS. SIXTY WORKS. Art from the Federal Republic of Germany
- Art of Two Germanys / Cold War Cultures
- Italics
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Faites votre jeu! is an initiative of political and artistic interest groups appropriating empty buildings in Frankfurt am Main for the purpose of experimental production. At the moment, the initiative is squatting a former youth center in Bockenheim. Soon Faites votre jeu! will move into an old prison building in the center of Frankfurt am Main.
For further information visit: www.faitesvotrejeu.tk
The Free Class FFM is a loose network of artists, who are connected by an ongoing discussion on art and politics. Within the Free Class different working groups and experimental initiatives are developed on a variety of topics. The Free Class is certainly not ‘free’ in the universal sense of the word. But at least we succeed in distancing ourselves from the useless educational consensus of qualifying examinations, tuitions, professor masters and docile scholars.
For further information visit: http://freeclassfrankfurt.wordpress.com
