Abstract
Jonathan Kahana conducted this conversation with Zoe Beloff in conjunction with installations of Beloff's The Days of the Commune, a multimedia project based on Bertolt Brecht's 1956 play of the same name. Consisting of video shot during weekend rehearsals in public spaces around New York City; a performance of the play serialized to take as long as the 1871 Paris Commune; and drawings, broadsheets, and a website, Beloff's The Days of the Commune was mounted in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street, and often coincided with the spaces and movements of the occupation in Manhattan. In this extended version of a dialog to be published with the Slought Foundation Blu-ray Disc of The Days of the Commune, Beloff and Kahana discuss the origins and sources of the project, its relation to Beloff's previous work, and its place in contemporary anticapitalist art, media, and activism.
Recommended Citation
Kahana, Jonathan Kahana
(2013)
"Zoe Beloff in Conversation with Jonathan Kahana: Mongrel Media and Contemporary Currency -- A Conversation on Brecht, The Days of the Commune, and Occupy Wall Street,"
The Journal of e-Media Studies: Vol. 3:
Iss.
1, Article 8.
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.1349/PS1.1938-6060.A.433
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.dartmouth.edu/joems/vol3/iss1/8