Chto Delat
Chto Delat (What is to be done?) is a collective founded in early 2003 in Petersburg by a workgroup of artists, critics, philosophers, and writers with the goal of merging political theory, art, and activism. The artistic activity is realised across a range of media, from video and theatre plays, to radio programmes and murals. It includes art projects, seminars, and public campaigns. The works of the collective are characterised by the use of alienation effects, surreal scenery, typicality, and always case-by-case analyses of concrete social and political struggles. In 2013, Chto Delat initiated an educational platform called School of Engaged Art in Petersburg and also runs a space called Rosa’s House of Culture. From its inception, the collective has published an English-Russian newspaper focused on the politicisation of the Russian cultural situation in dialogue with the international context.
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Parliament of Bodies
A night programme of discussions, music, performances, screenings, and rituals
With Aérea Negrot, Betty Apple, Synnøve Bendixsen, Banu Cennetoğlu, Nikita Dhawan, Sarah Diehl, Tsaplya (Olga Egorova) and Kolyan Tatyana (Nikolay) Oleynikov from Chto Delat, María Galindo, Jack Halberstam, Ama Hanssen, Caspar Heinemann, Max Jorge Hinderer Cruz, Nelli Kambouri, Theodore (ted) Kerr, Ewa Majewska, Daniel Mariblanca, Jota Mombaça, Mari Norbakk, Narcissister, Elin Már Øyen Vister, Margarita Tsomou, Sunniva Vik, and others.
Conceived by Paul B. Preciado and Viktor Neumann
•Belgin, Rasmus Meyers allé 3, 5015 Bergen
•Admission free, in English
•no registration necessary, pop by any time throughout the night