A way with books - READING SEMINARS
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Organizing group readings and discussions is an integral part of my art practice. I love to read and discuss with people interested. It is a series of ongoing projects with changing books, contexts and titels. These Reading seminars can take place with and without institutional contexts. The books, the places, the people change but the method is alwasy the same: communial readings and discussions. In most cases, I read wiht a given set of books = Portable libraries = or focus on texts by individual authors. All these reading sessions are recorded on video. The photographs taken are part of my art works and to be seen in relationship to my seminar/lecture works.
IMPORTED - A series of Readings from 1993 - 1996
Imported - A Reading Seminar ... (Russian Version), Moscow 1994
16 x 20 inches c-print
Iimported - a publication
Book by Book - A portable French / English Llibrary for the Art Accademy, Geneva, 1996-1999
Exhibition view, Centre de photography,Geneva, 2000
Reading Karl Marx (1998 - 2001)
Reading Karl Marx, Innsbruck 1999
photograph 20x 24 inches, 51 x 61 cm, Edition of 4
www.ganahlmarx.com - a web site
exhibition - Reading Karl Marx, an exhibition in NY 1999
book - a book
bookworks london. 2001
Reading Frantz Fanon (2002 ongoing)
Lire Frantz Fanon, Geneva (during the G8 protests), 2003
Reading Antonio Gramsci (2002 ongoing)
Leggere Antonio Gramsci
Leggere Antonio Gramsci / Reading Antonio Gramsci, Florence, Base 2001
The Politics of Learning - A portable Library for Columbia University, New York 2005
Demokratie üben / Practicing Democracy, 2006 (Münster)
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Reading Lenin, 2006 - ongoing
Reading Mao, 2007 -
READING ALFRED JARRY / LIRE ALFRED JARRY, 2007 ongoing
READING ROSA LUXENBURG, VENICE 2007
Reading Karl Marx in a Stretchlimo during the Armory Art Fair, 2009
Watching DAS KAPTIAL by Alexander Kluge, artschool UK, Celle Project Space, 2010
Reading Democracy, Gwangju, 2010
Monday - Marx; Tuesday - Lenin; Wednesday - Mao; Thursday - Jarry; Friday - Tzara; Saturday - The Financial Times. Werkstadt Graz, 2010
LEGGERE PRIMO MORONI / READING PRIMO MORONI, Milan 2010
Marco Maroni was a Milan leftist intellectual, writer and founder of an important bookshop, which is today converted into an archive of counter-culture. He was part of Italy’s extra-parliamentarian leftist activism. He also involved in Punk and other cultural phenomena typical for underground and counter culture. The book we were reading and discussing was about counter cultural phenomenon in Milan.
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READING FRIEDRICH ENGELS, THE CONDITION OF THE WORKING CLASS IN ENGLAND, Manchester / Bury, 2011
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READING FRIEDRICH ENGELS, THE CONDITION OF THE WORKING CLASS IN ENGLAND,Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam, 2011
READING FRIEDRICH ENGELS, THE CONDITION OF THE WORKING CLASS IN ENGLAND, De Vleeshal, Middelburg, 2012
Reading Saddam Hussein, On Democracy, New York 19772012
Reading Elias Canetti, Crowds and Power, Miami 2014
