DEATH OF MARXISM, WOMAN OF ALL LANDS UNITE

Author: Goshka Macuga

Performers: Keithy Kuuspu, Liisa Saaremäel (Johanna Vaiksoo)

Photo: Maris Raud

The performance was part of Archaeologists of Memory exhibition in KUMU art museum (2022, 2023, Tallinn, Estonia).

The art piece belongs to TATE collection.

Macuga places images of women from photographs by Miroslav Tichý (1926–2011) around the London tomb of Karl Marx. Tichý was a Czech artist who took thousands of voyeuristic pictures of women. Macuga moves the women from passive objects of Tichý’s gaze to active participants of a history that excluded them. At times during the display, two female performers will sit on the tapestry and discuss Marxist theory. The title humorously adapts Marx’s famous slogan from the Communist Manifesto ‘Workers of all lands unite’.