Conférence Chto Delat

Cultural
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Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Photographie ( ENSP ), 30, avenue Victor Hugo, 13200 Arles

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  2025
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Artists Dmitry Vilensky and Nikolay Oleynikov from the Chto Delat collective present their careers, their work and their experience of collective and collaborative projects.

Chto Delat (which translates as "What to do?") is an artistic and activist collective. Founded in 2003 in St. Petersburg by artists, critics, philosophers and writers, its name is inspired by a novel by Nikolai Chernyshevsky (1863) and immediately evokes the first autonomous socialist workers' organizations and feminist cooperatives in Russia. Lenin updated the term in his 1902 treatise "What to do?", reflecting his commitment to social emancipation and the politicization of cultural production. The collective, which brings together members from St. Petersburg, Moscow and Nizhny Novgorod, develops projects at the crossroads of art, political theory and activism. Their often interdisciplinary works (performances, installations, videos, publications) aim to analyze and support social struggles, while questioning Soviet legacies and contemporary issues. Forced into exile since 2022, following their anti-war stance, most of them continue their activities with Chto Delat International and Chto Delat Emergency Project Room in Berlin.