Welcome to MANHATTAN MARXISM - a project by Rainer Ganahl
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AN APPLIED CRITIQUE OF FASHION CALLED MARX, ART AND (covid) JUSTICE by Rainer Ganahl
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lates NEW YORK CITY ... PLUS FASHION SHOW : SEE atp gallery, MANNTATTAN .. TRICKY PLACE : atp.gallery, 2022 - one person show with a fashion show
PREVIEW - IG RAINERGANAHL IG IMPEACHMENTHEARINGS IG WEAR.LOTTERYECONOMICS IG strangeteachingart etc @commedesmarxists.com
or go COMMEDESMARXISTS.COM
below is 2022 - still new variouses and variants and i keep producing NONTHELESS.. AS I SAY ... like a machine
we also work on a new PUBLICATION...
better FASHION FOR SALE better paintings better books stay tuned - ASK GALLERIES IN CV
also see my many many hand made books like this for example
plus how I bankrupt myself successfully : more fine art & fashion
Manhattan Marxism -- // edited rachel corbett, sternberg 2018 fall berlin
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MX gallery + Kai Matsumiya
present at MX gallery ----my fashion show.
PLeASE, TEACH ME CHINESE / PLEAsE, TEACH ME ITALIAN, - MARX A PRATO -...
july 11th . nyc . please, teach me chinese FASHION SHOW
167 canal street, 5th floor, 8 pm
MX gallery press lease.
STARRING. Alex Shulan, Tajhi Banks, B Wurtz, Jenny Cheng Young Gun, Valerie Keane, Andrea Fourchy, Kai Matsumiya, Ala Dehghan, Alex Bienstock, Eli Ping and more
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Rainer Ganahl’s “Please Teach Me Chinese, Please Teach Me Italian – Marx a Prato, Gucci a Prato.” Courtesy of the artist.
9. Rainer Ganahl’s “Please, Teach Me Chinese / Please, Teach Me Italian — Marx a Prato / Gucci a Prato” at MX Gallery
Artist Rainer Ganahl updates his “Commes des Marxists” fashion show, which first appeared at White Columns in 2013, at lower Manhattan’s MX Gallery. The fashion performance, which features clothing printed with Chinese and Italian text, was originally slated to appear in the Italian city of Prato, which is home to a large population of migrant Chinese workers. But museum officials interrupted the show after discovering that Ganahl’s work highlighted the sometimes violent clashes between the city’s Chinese and Italian populations. Now, Ganahl is reprising the work for one night at a gallery that’s fittingly situated in a part of Chinatown that was previously known as Little Italy.
Location: MX Gallery, 167 Canal Street, fifth floor
Price: Free
Time: 8 p.m.
refernces: kunsthalle vienna / prato / concept
july 26th.opening of MX SHOW. -- an exhibition also in collaboratoin with kai matsumiya.
MARX ANGELS DUST
A Manhattan Marxism SUMMER NIGHT SPLEEN
AGELS"DUST is a LABOR CAMP & STRANGE LEARNING
events are to be announced on this instagram: @marxangelsdust
STRANGE LEARNING / NARCISM AGAISNT FASHISM / MARX LOVE / ETC. ON THE SILK ROAD - do not bomb iran.. / THE USA PUSHING FOR WAR WITH IRAN - PUTTING IN PLACE A FULL MILITARIY READY TO ATTACK !!! - ON THE SILK ROAD WE ALSO have huawei and a trade war -- all proxi wars with China.
coming up:
February 23rd , 2019 MARX PUNK OPERA @ montez press RADIO and DOES ART MATTER ? / MANHATTAN MARXISM ( marx a prato gucci a prato, sternberg-press)
DOES ART MATTER ? / Marx a Prato/ Gucci a Prato@ Clima Gallery Milan, feb 2019
Beuys-Marx a Prato-Suit, 2019 YOUTUBE
DOES ART MATTER ? artist talk on
INSTITUTIONAL HARRASSMENT --- Marx a Prato ...
MILAN @ clima Feb 13th, 2019...
KUNSTHALLE Vienna, JAN 2019
A FASHION SHOW & MANHATTAN MARXISM/book
Please, teach me Chinese, Please, teach me Italian/ Marx a Prato/ Gucci a Prato
see VIDEO OF THIS SHOW
marx a prato / gucci a prato / prato
MORE MARX RELATED WORKS
for example.. Comme des Marxists - LONDON, London College of Fashion / Fashion Space London / OCT. 2018 - JAN 2019 COMME es MARXISTS White Columns, 2013 see youtube show.. 2013
fashion CAT WALK / opera KUNSTRAUM LONDON
kunstraum london comme des marxits runway show
Youtube - London
BOOK PRESENTATION WIth OPERA /// MARK PUNK
BERLIN // STERNBERG-PRESS press @ SPIKE MAGAZINE //
NEW YORK @ WESTREICH WAGNER DEC 2018
MANHATTAN MARXISM - a two part project
part one : MIddelbrug De Vleeshal , July - August 2014
click to see show..
click to see show...
Manhattan Marxism - About the title
The title for Manhattan Marxism was the result of a work KARL MARX VISITS DAVID ZWIRNER ON WEST 20TH STREET, BLINKY PALERMO, LATE WORKS, MANHATTAN MARXISM, 1976/2013 inspired by a painting of Palermo he simply called MANHATTAN.
Needless to say there is a contradiction at hand since Manhattan is the place of Wallstreet, the biggest machine of Capitalism throughout the 20th century and still one of the biggest and most important in the world. But this little island is not only home to many high wealth individuals including some of the richest people in the world but also to many poor people and a neighbood still belonging statistically to the most underpriveledged areas in the United States.
Hence, word Manhattan in conjunjtion with Marxism could easily be understood as radical chic, some kind of provocatoni if not outright cynicism, but I do not intend it as such. Not only do I myself still live in Manhattan* - in the barrio of Spansih Harlem - but also do many theoreticians who read and study Marx's texts which is still taught at Manhattan universities.
I am interested in Karl Marx as a theoretician and a metaphor for his theoretical analysis about how people interact materially and socially thus creating an economic systems that gives work, value, profits, losses, crisis, debts and differences. Marx sees in work a the major force for people to deal with the world, to satisfy their needs and to create and shape their mostly instrumental thinking. Work for Marx is a basic category that takes on new shapes in whatever developmental phase the individual and society find themselves. It is cruxial for sustaining life and undestanding of the world and each other.
I would go as far as to say that in a society where basic needs like food, clothing, heatlh and security are nearly all (already / still) guaranteed by the state without much effort, even consumption, distraction, shopping and wasting is some kind of work creating an overall productive effect the way many internet companies are valued billions of dollars simlply because of their massive memberschip numberss. Marx was also an amazing analyst of the products human and machine work produces. Already in the first part of the 19th century he speaks about the fetish character of products and goods something that is a dominating, driving force for shopping and accumulating stuff and services today. His materialism explains the world from the buttom up. Unlike idealists who start wiht big master gods, big terms and concepts and put the idea of something ahead of that something, Marx' materialisms starts with the act of survival which then makes humans working for everysthings to become who they are and what they are today.
Marx stands in large part of the left leaning population - to which I count myself - for social justice and hope. On the right leaning spectrum,he is blamed for the desasters and brutal repressions 20th century forms of communisim produced with all its terror and inefficiant economical systems. Even if i am fascianated by Marx's materialist philosophy and his very influential understanding of economical and social processes of his time including his fight against idealism and any kind of god-business, I am not a Marxist the way it was understood in the 20th century where such a sentence and declaration could cost or save you your head literally or metaphorically you job and material if not also social well being depending on the time, place and people you found yourself in. Saying all this, I have to point out to all the misery, wars and murders that was committed partially under his banner, his ideology, his name - no matter how innocent the mostly London based writer was or wasn't.
Having said all this , I take quite some liberty when deciding what works to include under this Manhattan Marxism umbrella. In Middleburg, the first installment of this body of works there will be only some accessories but not realy wearables included. That fashion part is mostly reserved for part two of Manhattan Marxism.
more text and images to come soon -- text in prorgress
*disclaimer: i do not claim to be poor or rich since these definitions and facts are relative and DO NOT necessarily make a text, an argument or an artwork any better or worse.
click to see the DE VLEESHALL show...
part two
COMME des MARXISTS
COMME des MARXISTS is the overall title of all KARL MARX related works that include wearables and textiles. So far there have been two installments, one at the MUSEUM LICHTENSTEIN in Vaduz in 2012 and one at WHITE COLUMNS /performa 2014 in New York city. - thanks to Matthew Higgs.
part two COMME es MARXISTS White Columns, 2013 see youtube show.. 2013
A further installment is planned for 2018
Comme des Marxists, Fashion Space Gallery, University of the Arts,UAL, London, Oct 5, 2018 - Jan 2019
RAINER MARIA DADA GANAHL / MARX PUNK .. playing during the opening. october 4, London college of fashion, UAL, 2018
MARX on fire, London 2018
Overall curator of this project is Lorenzo Benedetti. at his last show at De Vleeshal,Middelburgs 2014
2017
--- MANHATTAN MARXISM / WOOL WORKS / EXPOITATION - EXHIBTION , PORTO, 2017
--- STRANGE TEACHING / WOOL WORKS / EXPOITATION - THE PROCESS -Porto, 2017
2018
Marx a Prato / Gucci a Prato
PLEASE, TEACH ME CHINESE / PLEASE, TEACH ME ITALIAN
MANHATTAN MARXISM, BAD TIMES FOR CONTEMPORARY ART GALLERIES ? HELP IS HERE,2018
Are Art Galleries facing a hard time ?
MORE MARX RELATED WORKS