Index 19: Olivia Plender - Rise Early, Be Industrious
Conference: How to do Politics with Aesthetics
Open Lectures: Modernist Legacies and Constructions of Whiteness
Ongoing Exhibition and Events Program: John Skoog and Emanuel Röhss, Mad Horizon

 RISE EARLY, BE INDUSTRIOUS is a new book by artist Olivia Plender, published on the occasion of a series of recent exhibitions. It navigates through historical and contemporary models of education and communication, and their relation to work ethics, including learning games, world fairs, television and the internet. Olivia Plender presents the publication and discuss her ongoing interest in alternative education, in conversation with Axel Wieder. The event includes a screening of two films from the Open University’s Art and Environment course, “Children and Video” (1976) and “Whatever Will Be” (1977).
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 The event HOW TO DO POLITICS WITH AESTHETICS. RETHINKING 100 YEARS OF PETER WEISS examines how the works and ideas of Peter Weiss might be continued and actualized today. What is the status of the relationship between art and politics in contemporary political and social contexts? The event presents discussions with international experts, together with a program of short films. With Alex Gerbaulet, Mareike Bernien, Nadja Weiss, Florian Wüst, Petra Bauer, Kim West, Stefan Jonsson. HOW TO DO POLITICS WITH AESTHETICS is a collaboration of Goethe-Institut Schweden with Orionteatern and Index.
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 MODERNIST LEGACIES AND CONSTRUCTIONS OF WHITENESS is a course at the Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm, in collaboration with Index, and Tobias Hübinette, Samira Ariadad, Sidsel Meineche Hansen and Donatella Bernardi. The Open Lecture series includes presentations on Whiteness and Swedishness, Nervousness as institutional critic, Representations of Asians in Swedish culture, and Public Space. See the full program here

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 The exhibition MAD HORIZON is accompanied by a series of performances, film screenings and talks that explore central themes of the exhibition, such as the relationship of place and imagination, and the history of modern media. Upcoming contributions include Hekseskolen (Johanne Lykke Holm and Olga Ravn, Wed 26 October), Maria von Hausswolff (Wed 16 November), John Skoog (Wed 23 November), Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster and Ange Leccia, Carl-Michael von Hausswolff, Thom Andersen, and Studio for Propositional Cinema, amongst others. The exhibition continues until 4 December 2016.
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