For the performance programme of Episode 2 of Edition II – Feminist Legacies and Potentials in Contemporary Art, The Otolith Group presents the performance Communists Like Us.

Concept: Anjalika Sagar, Kodwo Eshun
Performers: Anjalika Sagar, Kodwo Eshun
Sources (music): Cornelius Cardew and the Scratch Orchestra: The Great Learning, Paragraph 2 (1969); the Art Ensemble of Chicago: People in Sorrow (1969); Ennio Morricone: Cat O’Nine Tails Original Soundtrack (1973)
Sources (images): Benedikt Taschen, Chinese Propaganda Posters, Taschen (2003)
Sources (text): Jean-Luc Godard (dir.), La Chinoise (1967)
Production: the artists and If I Can’t Dance
Commissioned by: If I Can’t Dance, Amsterdam (premiere)
Financial support: Gemeente Utrecht; Mondriaan Foundation, Amsterdam; Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, Amsterdan