Aftermaths and Transformations October Revolution 1917 Revisited

The Russian Revolution of 1917, which began with the February Revolution and culminated in October with “ten days that shook the world” established the first workers’ socialist state in history and is therefore the preeminent event of the 20th century. Moreover, the two other “events” of the 20th century, namely the two world wars, were connected to carnage and death with no emancipatory impulse.
When thinking of freedom and change, the October Revolution palpably echoes with two other historically momentous revolutions: the Haitian Revolution, the anti-slavery and anti-colonial insurrection of 1791-1804, and the French Revolution of 1789, the ideological, political and social upheaval in the political history of France and Europe by those who were not recognized as the new labor force or as agents of change.
One hundred years later, this interdisciplinary international project engages with the contradictory and turbulent moment of the October Revolution from the perspective of the present. As we revisit the aftermaths and transformations of this historical event, we ask:
How did the mythologies, ideologies, and realities of the October Revolution shape disparate aesthetic, cultural and activist practices?
What kind of radically transformative subjectivities might be envisioned in moments of revolution? (Noit Banai and Marina Gržinić)

Lectures and Performances
Lina Ben Mhenni (Tunisia)
Ilya Budraitskis (Russia)
Aglaya K. Glebova (USA)
Jeremy M. Glick (USA)
Njideka Stephanie Iroh (Vienna)
The New Barbizon Collective (Israel)/[Zoya Cherkassky-Nnadi and Natalia Zourabova]
Piro Rexhepi (Macedonia)

Exhibition
Jamika Ajalon (USA)
Bojan Djordjev and Siniša Ilić (Belgrade)
Muzaffer Hasaltay (Vienna)
Linda Porn Davis (Barcelona)
Onur Serdar (Vienna)