Sunday 25 January 2009
7pm

In conjunction with our current research project on the non-institutional art initiatives in the south of Sweden during the period of 1968-2008, Signal has invited the artist Ilya Lipkin to present a talk on vanguard art and politics in Northern Europe.

Using the history of the Situationist International, and particularly the split between the Scandinavian SI and the 1′IS as a point of departure, Ilya Lipkin will discuss the legacy of radical aesthetic and political movements in Scandinavia, while considering the possibilities for alternative institutions today. In light of the most recent global crisis of capital, there is an urgent need to re-examine the role and framework of cultural production, as well as its entanglement with the neo-liberal order, if we are to imagine new ways of structuring the relationship of art to larger social realities. A discussion will follow–all are encouraged to attend.

For this occasion a poster has been produced through a collaborative process between Ilya Lipkin and Jacqueline de Jong, editor and publisher of the Situationist Times between 1962 and 1967.

Ilya Lipkin’s stay in Malmö is part of a residency project organized by SparwasserHQ (Berlin) – Signal (Malmö) – UKS (Oslo) – rum46 (Århus) and supported by Nordic Culture Point.