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Launch of the exhibition publication 'Revolution is not a Garden Party' 
Friday 9th February 2007.

The publication brings together the artistic response to contemporary revolution represented by the exhibition and new reflections on the relationship between art and revolution by theorists and art historians. It includes illustrations and interviews with the artists, and new essays by Gerald Raunig, Benda Hofmeyr, Simon Sheikh, Chus Martinez and Maja and Reuben Fowkes that engage with issues such as art and revolution, aesthetics and politics, and ecology and anarchism. Additionally, responses to individual works in the exhibition, by Beáta Hock, Edit Molnár, Nikolett Eross, János Sugár, Tamás Kaszás and Viktor Kotun, Dora Hegyi and Miklós Erhardt, highlight the variety of experiences and understandings of revolution in the context of contemporary art. The catalogue is published by MIRIAD, the Manchester Metropolitan University Research Institute for advanced cultural inquiry and creativity, and distributed by
Cornerhouse Manchester www.cornerhouse.org/books

The international exhibition Revolution is not a Garden Party considers the resonances of social and political revolution in contemporary art against the backdrop of the 50th anniversary of the Hungarian Uprising. Participating artists are Michael Blum, Nick
Crowe, Igor Grubia, Sanja Ivekovia, Gergely László / Péter Rákosi, Nils Norman and Adrian Paci. The exhibition was shown at Trafo Gallery in October 2006 and is currently at Holden Gallery Manchester until 27 February www.holdengallery.mmu.ac.uk and will be touring to Norwich Gallery 22 March - 21 April 2007, www.norwichgallery.co.uk and Galerija Miroslav Kraljevic, Zagreb 14 June - 6 July 2007, www.g-mk.hr