RED LOVE/ A READER ON ALEXANDRA KOLLONTAI / KOLLANTAI/ A PLAY BY AGNETA PLEIJEL

Alexandra Kollontai was a Russian revolutionary who was appointed commissar of social welfare after the October Revolution and later one of the worlds first woman ambassadors. This reader, in which artists and thinkers revisit Kollontais legacy in light of curre nt feminist struggles, stems from a research project by CuratorLab at Konstfack and Tensta konsthall that accompanied Dora Garcías exhibition Red Love. It also features the first English translation of the 1977 biographical play Kollontai by Swedish writer Agne ta Pleijel.