Participant is proud to present Zoe Beloff, The Days of the Commune, an installation based on Beloff’s restaging of Bertolt Brecht’s eponymous play. In the spring of 2012, Beloff brought together a group of actors, activists, and artists to perform the play in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street (OWS). Thinking about OWS as a radical theater of the people, the group conceptualized the project as a “work in progress,” in the sense that all social movements are a work in progress. Rather than stage the play in a theater, The Days of the Commune was performed, scene by scene, in public spaces around New York City, from Zuccotti Park to an East Village community garden. 

OPENING EVENTS

Sunday, July 20
6pm: A brief history of the Paris Commune by Mitchell Abidor. Followed by a discussion with Zoe Beloff and cast members, led by curator/writer Niels van Tomme
7-9pm: Opening reception and performance of songs from the play

SCREENINGS

Sunday, July 27, 7pm
History Lessons, Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet, 1972

Sunday, August 3, 7pm
The New Babylon, Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg, 1929

Sunday, August 10, 7pm
Kuhle Wampe, or Who Owns the World?, Slatan Dudow and Bertolt Brecht, 1932