Art and Revolution by Gerald Raunig is much more than a scholarly work – this book is an affirmation of new constitutive practices, written in the tumultuous environment of social movements of the twentieth century. The anti-globalization movement is as much a point of departure for the book as the discourses around constitutive power and the multitude (according to Antonio Negri) and around the political critique of representation by Félix Guattari, Gilles Deleuze and Michel Foucault for the Zapatistas, as for the central question of art and the revolution around the forms of interweaving between artistic and revolutionary machines, the anti-racist, queer-feminist and nomadic practices of the Volks-theatre-caravan are used as exemplary ground in “Art and Revolution”.

In the introduction to the 2017 edition, Gerald Raunig writes: “Art historiography, art criticism, and aesthetics are happily silent about political art and the political in specific artistic practices, and they do this even more prominently in terms of the intertwining of art and revolution.” So many great names in art history were also involved in revolutions, and the dangerous intersections of artistic and political activism are constantly downplayed, presented as harmless or unintentional. Here the interweaving must not happen, art as well as revolution loses its machine quality, through the historicization and decomposition of art sciences.”

As part of Re-Imagine Europe: New Perspectives for Action, Kontrapunkt published Art and Revolution as an online publication translated to Macedonian.