Remember Revolution: 68 at 40
By asking people to Remember Revolution we are not mourning the death of radical political possibility. Rather we are asking how the events of ’68 inform our own forms of protest. While interest in traditional democracy is waning can the past help activate new forms of political participation? What alternatives exist to the global dominance of the ‘Neo-Liberal’ economy, whose freedoms keep two-thirds of the world’s population in poverty and threaten the survival of the planet? If power is increasingly immaterial and beyond the grasp of nation states, what strategies have been developed to counter it?
Nottingham Contemporary is examining these and other questions with a season to commemorate May ’68, the month when a million people took over the streets of Paris.