This exhibition takes the centennial of the Russian Revolution of 1917 as an occasion to think broadly about revolution. How do radical changes in power and perception come about? Who makes them, or how do they happen? It adopts a working method employed by early twentieth-century political organizers, who cho-authored slogans as a device for developing consciousness of the contemporary situation and consensus about how to move forward. Functioning less as propagandistic directives than as propositions to be picked up and debated, these slogans were intended as tools in an ongoing process of collective self-production. The exhibition includes works by contemporary artists and collectives Chto Delat', Tacita Dean, Coco Fusco, Jennifer Moon, Tameka Norris, and The Propeller Group. Each work has been selected for its potential as a starting point for a debate about a "proposition on revolution."

The exhibition is organized in conjunction with a series of programs at the University looking at the global impact of the Russian Revolution over the past one hundred years. It is also in dialogue with the historical exhibition, Revoliutsiia! Demonstratsiia! Soviet Art Put to the Test, opening in October at the Art Institute of Chicago. 

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