SIGNAL – Center for Contemporary Art
Södra Skolgatan 31, 214 31 Malmö
SWEDENILYA LIPKIN
Period of residence: december 2008
// about
Ilya Lipkin, an artist based in Malmö, Sweden and New York, USA.
Ilya Lipkin's interest in CoBrA, Provo and in the ideas and actions of the Situationist International and the alternative community of Christiania, stem from a search for historical Antecedents for a politically grounded way of thinking about artistic practice. In his own work he is interested in exploring the potential (or varnish thereof) of traditional aesthetic means such as painting confront larger socio-political realities. Where does art stand in relationship to social change? How do we think of the historical role of art? How does the writing of history neutralizer oppositional movements and how can history be rewritten? These questions are central in his artistic research.
// projects
____The Scandinavian SI
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.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. Read it here.
