Full Description
A TLS Book of the Year 2017
In this, the first anthology of Russian contemporary art writing to be published outside Russia, many of the country's most prominent contemporary artists, writers, philosophers, curators and historians come together to examine the region's contemporary art, culture and and theory.
With contributions from Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, Boris Groys, Dmitri Prigov, Anton Vidokle, Keti Chukhrov, Oxana Timofeeva, Pavel Pepperstein, Arseny Zhilyaev and Masha Sumnina amongst many others, this definitive collection reveals a compelling portrait of a vibrant and complex culture: one built on a contradicting dialectic between the material and the ideal, and battling its own histories and ideologies.
Contents
Foreword - Bart De Baere
Acknowledgments - Elena Zaytseva and Alex Anikina
Introduction - Elena Zaytseva
Part One - Past futures
1.The nomadic theater of the communist - Keti Chukhrov
2.The center of cosmic energy - Ilya and Emilia Kabakov
3.The truth of art - Boris Groys
4.VDNKh, the capital of the world - Andrey Monastyrsky
5.The Communist Revolution was caused by the Sun - Anton Vidokle
Part Two - Inherited aesthetics
6.History of angels - Joseph Backstein
7.Concerning abstractionism - Dmitry Gutov and Anatoly Osmolovsky
8. Screens - Olga Chernysheva
9.Two manifestos - Dmitry Prigov
10.The form of art as mediation - Maria Chehonadskih
11.Soviet communism and the paradox of alienation - Artemy Magun
12.The Russian avant-garde as an uncontrollable beast- Alexander Brener
Part Three - From the archive
13. Author, cosmos, archive - Vadim Zakharov
14. A binary system - Bogdan Mamonov
15. You can call him another man - Maria Kapajeva
16. Running to the nest - Andrey Kuzkin
17. Brink, kerbside, fence, margin - Masha Sumnina
Part Four - Russia, today
18.A heritage without an heir - Ilya Budraitskis
19.Krisis - Dmitry Venkov
20.Questions without answers, answers without questions - Gleb Napreenko
21.The Utopian Union of the Unemployed - Gluklya (Natalia Pershina-Yakimanskaya)
22.Chto Delat? and method - Dmitry Vilensky
23.Weakness - Yevgeny Granilshchikov
Part Five - Future futures
24.Ultra black - Oxana Timofeeva
25.Demand full automation of contemporary art - Arseny Zhilyaev
26.The Antichthon - Alex Anikina
27.I want to be afraid of the forest - Ivan Novikov
28.The skyscraper-cleaner pine marten - Pavel Pepperstein
About the contributors
Text credits
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Index
