Cosmic Shift: Russian Contemporary Art Writing

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Contents
Foreword – Bart De Baere
Acknowledgments – Elena Zaytseva and Alex Anikina
Introduction
Part One: Past Futures
	1: Keti Chukhrov: The Nomadic Theater of the Communist: A Manifesto
	2: Ilya and Emilia: Kabakovthe Center of Cosmic Energy
		I the Principle and Main Structure of the “Center of Cosmic Energy”
		II Four Intuitions
	3: Boris Groys: The Truth of Art
	4: Andrey Monastyrsky: VDNKh, the Capital of the World: A Schizoanalysis
	5: Anton Vidokle: The Communist Revolution was caused by the Sun: A Partial Script for a Short Film
		A Field of Wind Turbines
		Desert, a Mountain of Sand
		A Dressing Room of a Nightclub
		A Village Cemetery Near Almata
		Fields on the Outskirts of an Industrial City
		A Factory Workshop
		Aerial View of a Vast Cemetery
		A Two-Lane Road after Dark
		Note
Part Two: Inherited Aesthetics
	6: Joseph Backstein: History of Angels
		A Tour of the Philosophy of Angels
		On Succession in Art
		So What Is the Essence of Moscow Conceptualism and Why Should So Much Attention Be Paid to It?
		On the Correlation of the Visual and the Verbal in Russian Art
		On the Notion of the Borderline in Art
		References
	7: Dmitry Gutov and Anatoly Osmolovsky: Concerning Abstractionism
		Letter 1
		Letter 2
		Letter 3
		Letter 7
		Letter 12
		Letter 14 (Extract)
		Letter 17
		Note
	8: Olga Chernysheva: Screens
	9: Dmitry Prigov: Two Manifestos
		Where Are Our Hands, in Which Our Future Lies?
		The Second Sacro-Cularization
	10: Maria Chehonadskih: The Form of Art as Mediation: A History and Storytelling before and After Moscow Conceptualism
		In Place of an Introduction: A ≠ A, or Dialectical Doubt
		Benjamin’s “Storyteller” and the Land of Soviets
		The Storyteller after the Storyteller: The Experience of Soviet Conceptualism
		Notes
	11: Artemy Magun: Soviet Communism and the Paradox of Alienation
		Communism as Idea
		“Communism” of the Past and Communism of the Future
		Desert Communism
		Negativity in Communism
		Notes
	12: Alexander Brener: The Russian Avant-Garde as an Uncontrollable Beast
Part Three: From the Archive
	13: Vadim Zakharov: Author, Cosmos, Archive
		Additional Terms Used by Vadim Zakharov from The Dictionary of Terms of the Moscow Conceptual School
		Notes
	14: Bogdan Mamonov: A Binary System
	15: Maria Kapajeva: You Can Call Him another Man (2015–2017)
		Note
	16: Andrey Kuzkin: Running to the Nest
		Foreword
		The Journey
		There
		Event Number One – The Manipulator Mirror
		Event Number Two – The Green Swing
		Event Number Three – The Red-Dotted Wood
		Event Number Four – The Triang
	17: Masha Sumnina: Brink, Kerbside, Fence, Margin
Part Four: Russia, Today
	18: Ilya Budraitskis: A Heritage Without an Heir
		The ‘Eternal Present’: The Russian Version
		A Revolution against Circumstances
		Order and Disorder
		On the Path to the “Historical Russia”
		The Nontransparency of the Heritage
		Notes
	19: Dmitry Venkov: Krisis: A Film Script
	20: Gleb Napreenko: Questions Without Answers, Answers Without Questions
	21: Gluklya / Nataliapershina-Yakimanskaya: The Utopian Union of the Unemployed
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	22: Dmitry Vilensky: Chto Delat? and Method: Practicing Dialecticm
		Mixing Different Things
		On the Usefulness of Declarations
		On the Totality of Capital, or Playing the Idiot
		Being Productive?
		On Compromises
		On Working with Institutions
		On Subjugation to the Dominant Class
		On the Historicity of Art
		The Formula of Dialectical Cinema
		On Financing
		On the Boundaries of the Disciplines
		On the Question of Self-Education
		On the Theory of the Weakest Link
		On the Withering Away of Art
		On the Utility of Reading, Viewing and the Supreme Privilege
		Ideas and the Masses
		On Universality
		On World Art
		On Leaders
		On Defamiliarization and Subversive Affirmation
		Is It Possible to Make Love Politically?
	23: Yevgeny Granilshchikov: Weakness: A Scenario for Two Actors and One Camera
Part Five: Future Futures
	24: Oxana Timofeeva: Ultra Black: Brief Notes Towards a Materialist Theory of Oil
	25: Arseny Zhilyaev: Demand Full Automation of Contemporary Art
	26: Alex Anikina: The Antichthon
	27: Ivan Novikovi: Want to Be Afraid of the Forest
	28: Pavel Pepperstein: The Skyscraper-Cleaner Pine Marten
About the Contributors
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Index