Oliver Ressler
'An Ideal Society Creates Itself' listen to
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Oliver Ressler talks about some of his theme specific exhibitions,
projects in public space, and videos on issues of migration,
economics, forms of resistance and social alternatives.
Since 1995 Oliver Ressler has been working on several important
projects which engage with art, politics, and activism, including
"Alternative Economics, Alternative Societies", an itinerant and
ongoing show presented in twenty-one different exhibition spaces
(so far), from Madrid's Centro Cultural Conde Duque to the Platform
Garanti Contemporary Art Center in Istanbul. His work presents
alternative ways of thinking social organisations, from Zapatista
self-government to Ralf Burnicki's 'Anarchist Consensual
Democracy'.
"Ressler is one of the new generation of artists operating in the
'grey area' that exists between art and politics who develop
projects on a variety of social themes using different media. But
what particularly distinguishes Ressler's work compared to others
and has led to his international renown is the role of policy
activist he assumes through his documentary and social inquiries,
through the production of slogans and publicising campaigns that
serve many and various types of political agitation and social
conflict, and finally through conferences, publications,
counter-information campaigns and exhibitions that gather together
the results of his investigations." - Marc Scotini
