All knees and elbows of susceptibility and refusal

 

Talking history and history from below

 

 

In opposition to the histories of great men and institutions, ‘history from below’ aimed to show how working people had agency within historical events; produced themselves, their culture and an analysis of their own conditions.

Following a screening of an extract from the 1983 film by H.O. Nazereth Talking History: C.L.R. James and E.P. Thompson, Anthony Iles and Tom Roberts will take up the legacy and problems of the project of making ‘history from below’.

A free, specially produced pamphlet will be available at the event. To download a PDF copy, click here.

For more resources on ‘history from below’ click here.

Anthony Iles is a cultural engineer and writer researching and making experiments in the disappearing public sphere. He is Assistant Editor of Mute magazine.
Tom Roberts is a writer and digital technician with an interest in class, autodidact history and knowledge production (among other things).

Sunday June 3rd

 

2pm, free entry

Serpentine Gallery
Kensington gardens
London W2 3XA
T 020 7402 6075
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‘All knees and elbows‘ is part of:

La Commune
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June 2nd & 3rd 2007
A weekend of events at the Serpentine Gallery organised by Whitechapel Project Space.

Whitechapel Project Space presents La Commune, two days of performance, presentations, screenings and publication launches focusing on counter-histories of self-organisation, and the philosophical, personal and aesthetic legacies of such activities.

For full information please visit
www.whitechapelprojectspace.org.uk

This is in turn part of Local Operations (23 May - 1 July 2007), a free series of self-organised events, talks, screenings and workshops by writers, curators, theorists, independent groups, not-for-profit spaces and students at The Sackler Centre of Arts Education at the Serpentine Gallery. All discussions will be available as free podcasts from http://www.serpentinegallery.org after the events.

No reservations, first-come, first-served

Nearest Undergrounds: Knightsbridge, Lancaster Gate and South Kensington
Buses: 9, 10, 52, 94, 148

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