Red LoveAuthor :
Paperback
Published : Wednesday 13 March 2019
Description
Revisiting the ideas of a Russian revolutionary and feminist on such topics as sexual politics, free love, and motherhood.
Alexandra Kollontai was a prominent Russian revolutionary, a commissar of Social Welfare after the October revolution in 1917, and a long-term Soviet ambassador to Sweden. As a cofounder of the Zhenotdel, the “Womens Department” in the communist party, she introduced abortion rights, secularized marriage, and provided paid maternity leave. Kollontai considered “comradely love” to be an important political force, elemental in shaping social bonds beyond the limitations of property relations.
Red Love stems from a yearlong research by CuratorLab at Konstfack University together with Tensta konsthall, that led up to Dora Garcías exhibition Red Love and its related public programing. A number of artists and thinkers revisit Kollontais ideas on the politics of love and their relation to current political, social, and feminist struggles. The publication also includes the biographical play Kollontai from 1977 by distinguished Swedish writer Agneta Pleijel.
Part critical analysis and part artist book Red Love seeks to address the ongoing relevance of Kollontais thought, and the increasingly complex sphere of love relations in advanced capitalism. Is there a place for Kollontais vision of comradely love today and how could it be formed?
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