About this event
Turn your love into a weapon. (Revolution, Fulfil Your Promise) Red Love engages with Soviet revolutionary and sexual activist Alexandra Kollontai’s writings on female sexuality and emancipation, the abolition of the family, and the need to “change hearts and minds.” The reading traces a complex web of connections between 20th-century European Marxist feminism and 21st-century Latin American transfeminisms; between personal and collective mourning; between multiple ways of understanding the feminine; and between the melancholic gaze of disenchantment and the furious, tender, and imperious demand that the Revolution finally fulfil its promise. The film is the result of eight years of research, ranging from the Moscow Engels–Marx–Lenin archives to multiple personal, familial, historical, and activist archives in Mexico and Latin America. It is a collective work by a team of researchers and artists of different nationalities. It seeks to inscribe itself within the urgency of the tradition of militant film while also tracing careful historical genealogies and projecting into the future. The screening will be followed by a conversation with Dora García, moderated by Bojana Cvejić. • Dora García is an artist and teacher who lives and works between Barcelona and Oslo. García uses the exhibition space as a platform to investigate the relationship between the visitor, the artwork, and place. In addition to a vast body of performance work, she has made several films and publications, each stemming from extensive research into figures and stories from leftist political history. Her work has been presented in numerous international art exhibitions, including Münster Sculpture Projects (2007), the Venice Biennale (2011, 2013, 2015), the Sydney Biennial (2008), the São Paulo Biennial (2010), dOCUMENTA 13 (2012), and the Gwangju Biennale (2016), among others.
