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Pil & Galia Kollectiv
http://www.kollectiv.co.uk/
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biography
Pil and Galia Kollectiv are London based artists, writers and curators working in collaboration.
Their work addresses the legacy of modernism, exploring the promises and ruins of the avant garde discourses of the twentieth century. It deals with the way these failed utopias operate in the context of a changing landscape of creative work and instrumentalised leisure. They are interested in the relationship between art and politics, and the role irony and belief play in its current articulation. They often use choreographed movement and ritual as both an aesthetic and a thematic dimension, juxtaposing consumerism and religious ceremonies to find the underlying rites and convictions of a secular, post-ideological society. Reading dada, Constructivism, and the Bauhaus backwards through punk and new wave, they find new uses for futures past.
They also run xero, kline & coma, an artist-run project space in east London, they are the London editors of Art Papers, and they teach fine art at the University of Reading and elsewhere.
related links
http://channel.tate.org.uk/media/1027089981001
http://www.xero-kline-coma.com
Pil & Galia Kollectiv Asparagus: A Horticultural Ballet 2007
Pil & Galia Kollectiv Better Future, Wolf Shaped 2008
Pil & Galia Kollectiv Critical Mass: Sermon for the Church of the Atom 2010
Pil & Galia Kollectiv Future Monument for the Dialectic Negation of a Post-Catastrophic Society 2009
Pil & Galia Kollectiv Svetlana 2008
Pil & Galia Kollectiv The Future for Less 2006
Pil & Galia Kollectiv WE 2010
Pil & Galia Kollectiv Epic Sea Battle at Night: A Revolutionary Play Permeated with the Economic Thinking of Milton Friedman 2011
Pil & Galia Kollectiv Performative Construction of a Future Monument for the Dialectic Negation of a Post-Catastrophic Society 2009
Pil & Galia Kollectiv No Haus Like Bau 2008
