Dejan Marković
Arbeiterwille: An Impossible Movement
Dejan Marković, Arbeiterwille: An Impossible Movement, Graz, 2020, photo: Clara Wildberger
The social democratic newspaper Arbeiterwille, founded in Graz in 1890, promoted the emancipation of the working class through self-organization, resistance, and education over a period of forty-four years before being banned. Using this historical publication as a starting point, Dejan Marković’s artistic contribution focuses on the current possibilities for collective self-understanding in the midst of neoliberal and global technological and environmental changes.
Most recently, the fight against the pandemic accelerated the processes of flexibilization and automation of digital capitalism, which has not only led to apathy, alienation, and social isolation, but has also changed the conditions of collective bargaining. How can we identify an Arbeiterwille (worker’s will) as the basis for community building today? A discursive installation demonstrates what is hidden behind media representations of high-tech work and poses the question of new possibilities for collectivization and political action.
10.9., 10:00, 17:00
10.9.–31.10.
Exhibition
Opening: 10.9., 10:00
AK-Bibliothek & Infothek
Hanuschgasse 3, 8020 Graz ♿
Mon, Wed 10:00–16:00; Tue, Thu 10:00–19:00; Fri 10:00–13:30
Free admission
10.9.–30.9.
Exhibition
Opening: 10.9., 17:00
Citypark, EG, Top 23 (Entry from parking garage A1)
Lazarettgürtel 55, 8020 Graz
Mo–Sa 10:00–18:00
Free admission
Curated by Dejan Marković
In the context of Graz Kulturjahr 2020
Supported by Annenstrasse 53, Arbeiterkammer Steiermark, CITYPARK, Institute for Contemporary Art / TU Graz, Kulturvermittlung Steiermark, VÖGB Steiermark, steirischer herbst ’21, and numerous workers’ organisations in Styria