Manifesto of an Interpretive Class
// Speculative Ruinology (Interpretation as a Mode of Survival), texts by members of Class of Interpretation, published in May 2020 // Mia Milgrom - essay “Looking Around”
collaboration with Roza Pogosian (performance director), Meetfactory // Prague, 2019/2020
A series of performances as a collective exploration of inter-species communication.
We – living with or alongside interpretation, as artists, theorists, academics and people caught somewhere in-between pristine social roles – necessarily take interpretation as something even more connected to the fabric of our lives. It may generate not only intellectual, hermeneutical questions but also political and affective issues concerning our social status or politics of identity. In this way, we play with both the pedagogical and political meaning of the word class.
Our exhibition therefore presents a statement, a manifesto if you like, concerning this precarious class of all engaged with interpretation. It generates an open space of engagement with meaning and its diverse political or ideological ramifications. It draws our attention to tarot, gaming, medication, architecture, the
inhuman, and mutual care. All these things we consider to be part of interpretation and of our
class struggle.
2019