The Urgent Need to Struggle at ICA, London and Nova Galerija, Zagreb

Photo Documentation of the show

personal documention of the show and making of by Dmitry Vilensky

Video version of audio-guide of the show

learning play – What Struggle do we have in common? from chto delat on Vimeo.

Participants: Jelena Vesic (Prelom collective – Belgrade), Vladan Jeremic (Biro Belgrade), Carrot Workers Research Group (London), Alexander Skidan and Dmitry Vilensky, Chto Delat collective (Russia), Factory of Found Clothes (St. Petersburg), Nina Gasteva (Iguana Dance (St. Petersburg), Steve Edwards (Historical Materialism – London), Turbulence (London), Unltra-Red (London); Ehsan Fardjadniya (Parachute-Artists (Nomad)), Amsterdam; Marina Vishmidt; Vladimir Jeric (Vlidi – Belgrade)

Based on 48 hours Communal Life Seminar

Presented by Factory of Found Clothes & Chto Delat, choreography of Nina Gasteva, and the participants of the 48 Hour Communal Life Seminar:

The title-question the play What struggles do we have in common? addresses the urgency of reconsidering the cultural field as a battle ground – where different forces of politics, aesthetics and ideology are confronting each other. That’s why the play scrutinizes the rather typical conflictual situation when artist/intellectuals who have chosen the necessity of carrying on their work in a framework of institutional landscape are confronted with the protest of activists who consider this position as a betrayal of political agenda in a favor of branding a personal/collective carriers detached from any political relevance.

Through the www this conflict and its different aspects we suggest the public to engage with this issues and try to find a way how to resolve the conflict otherwise.

Documentation of learning play by Vladan Jeremic

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Some responses to the project:

ICA journal Roland on the Chto Delat? https://www.ica.org.uk/26010/Roland-Magazine/Roland-Issue-7-Chto-delat-What-is-to-be-done.html

https://socialistresistance.org/1038/the-urgent-need-to-struggle-chto-delat-at-the-ica

https://www.artshub.co.uk/uk/news-article/reviews/visual-arts/chto-delat-what-is-to-be-done-182318

https://www.blueprintmagazine.co.uk/index.php/architecture/what-is-to-be-done/

https://www.timeout.com/london/art/event/199087/chto-delat

blog by Sarat J. Young https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2010/10/05/chto-delat-at-the-ica/

BBC about the show (in Russian) https://www.bbc.co.uk/russian/radio/radio_5etazh/2010/09/100916_5floor_chto_delat.shtml

Charlotte Jansen review on the show at ICA “The Urgent Need to Struggle” published at Artslant, London https://www.artslant.com/lon/articles/show/19580

Christopher Collier blog https://christophercollier.blogspot.com/2010/10/chto-delat.html

Review at whereartyou.co.uk by HELEN WILSON https://whereartyou.co.uk/chto-delat-the-urgent-need-to-struggle-review/

Some reflections of the influence of the exhibition on student protests

Precarious Workers Brigade; Fragments Toward an Understanding of a Week that Changed Everything…

CHTO DELAT? WHAT IS TO BE DONE? IN DIALOGUE [reader]