What
is to be done?
Questions for the 21st Century
What is to be Done? Questions for the 21st Century organised by Susan Kelly and Stephen Morton. The exhibition ran from Saturday February 22nd until April 21st, 2003.
Over the last 10 months before exhibition requests had been sent out to a broad national and international audience to respond to Lenin's original question "what is to be done?" posed in 1902. Lenin's ideas about revolutionary change, the relationship between local movements and universal ssocial struggles, as well as his predictions about late capitalism and imperialism seem surprisingly relevant today. The exhibition consiststed of an archive of all of the responses to the question received so far, and a working area where visitors could add their responses to the collection. In addition, there were different historic editions of the Lenin's book "What is to be Done?" on display along with a selection of audio recordings of speeches made by Lenin on the subject. Various talks and video screenings were also held during the exhibition.
This exhibition has been made possible by the staff of the Lenin Museum and with the help and guidance of David Landy and Janna Graham. Stephen Morton is a lecturer in English Philology at the University of Tampere. His book Gayatri Spivak was published with Routledge in November, 2002. Susan Kelly is an Irish artist living in London and Tampere.