Edited by: Georg Schöllhammer ve Ruben Arevshatyan
Contributors: Keti Chukhrov, Didem Pekün, Toni Maraini, Yuliya Sorokina – Ulan Djaparov, Ruben Arevshatyan, Ceren Ünlü, Sohrab Mahdavi, Olga Bryukhovetska, Matko Meštrović, Hrach Bayadyan, Daho Djerbal, Emin Alper, Branislav Dimitrijević, Orhan Koçak, Klaus Ronneberger – Georg Schöllhammer
The new issue of Red Thread, prepared in collaboration with the SWEET 60s project, investigates the reflections of the revolutionary era of the 1960s in “post-ideological societies” — encompassing post-Soviet and post-socialist countries, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, West and Central Asia, North Africa, China, and Latin America — through a contemporary artistic perspective.
Red Thread Issue 2 provides a theoretical platform for the project, which focuses on the comparative examination of historical transformations in art, culture, and society during the 1960s and 1970s, and explores the impact of these processes on current socio-political and cultural landscapes.
Excerpt from the editorial text:
“The project mainly concentrates on the still underexposed global cultural shift in the 60s and its effects in countries that were omitted in the historical explorations of that particular revolutionary period; situations that were developing beyond the, so to say, “Prague Line.” The general perception of the 60s period is still associated with Western culture and with the formal fragmented replications of Western processes in the “peripheries” and “outskirts.”
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In contrast to the currently accepted master narratives and historical canons, the project considers the processes of the 60s not as an eruption of a volcano generating echoes in the rest of the world, but as a general socio-cultural, political, economical condition which evolved in a global context and determined the development of parallel modernities interrelated with the development of diverse sociopolitical and cultural radical processes in every part of the world.”
