Russland vs. Russland, Tatiana Volkova, 11.04.2015
The Chronicles of the Russian Activist Art
In this speech I will explore the involvement of contemporary artists in protests in Russia during the past decade and a half. This involvement has altered the role of the artist in contemporary society, leading to the emergence of a burgeoning movement known as activist art.
Today art critics are faced with a challenging task: the neces- sity to articulate and to reflect upon the transformations of the place and function of contemporary artists within rapidly evolving socio-political processes.
The ideal of cultural democratization itself is associated with a whole range of participatory art practices that engage the audience in the creation of an art work. Participatory processes refer us to Joseph Beuys and his idea of “social sculpture” as a direct artistic intervention into reality. It is believed that this hybrid of art and political activism originated in America in the mid-1970s. Activist art has been characterized by innovative uses of public space for addressing socially important topics and rousing communities to action. In Russia, the term has been in use since the early 2010s, when it became obvious there had emerged a circle of artists who interacted with the reality around them in a fundamentally different way.
Now the changing functions of today’s artist-activist should be analyzed: precursor and catalyst of social processes, spokesperson for public sentiment, participant in mass pro- tests and solidarity actions with victims of repression, defender of the rights of minority and socially excluded groups.
Tatiana Volkova is an art historian and independent curator. She lives and works in Moscow. Volkova has held curatorial positions at the Tsaritsino Museum, State Tretyakov Gallery, Re ex Gallery, the Garage and ZHIR project (Moscow). Since 2009, she has been dedicated to activist art. Volkova curated a series of exhibitions of Russian activist artists at the ZHIR project, Moscow (Winzavod Art Centre, 2009-2010); ‘Silence=Death’ exhibition at Artplay Centre (Moscow, 2012), Media Impactors at OKK-Raum-29 (Berlin, 2012); Russian art activists’ show ‘Election festival’ at De Balie (Amsterdam, 2012) and many more. She also co-curated the ‘Art-Abai’ street action together with Denis Musta n (Moscow 2012). Volkova is an initiator and group member of the MediaImpact Festival of Activist Art. Since 2011, it has been held in Novosibirsk, Murmansk, Nizhniy Novgorod, St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, and in Moscow (three times). From 2013 to 2014, she was part of the curatorial team for the ‘Global Activism’ exhibition at ZKM (Karlsruhe, Germany). Since 2014, Volkova has been head of the curatorial program at the Higher School of the Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow.
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Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (22 April 1870 – 21 January 1924), better known by the alias Lenin, was a Russian communist revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He served as head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1924 and of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924. Under his administration, Russia and then the wider Soviet Union became a one-party communist state governed by the Russian Communist Party. Ideologically a Marxist, he developed political theories known as Leninism.
Born to a wealthy middle-class family in Simbirsk, Lenin embraced revolutionary socialist politics following his brother's 1887 execution. Expelled from Kazan Imperial University for participating in protests against the Russian Empire's Tsarist government, he devoted the following years to a law degree. He moved to Saint Petersburg in 1893 and became a senior Marxist activist. In 1897, he was arrested for sedition and exiled to Shushenskoye for three years, where he married Nadezhda Krupskaya. After his exile, he moved to Western Europe, where he became a prominent theorist in the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP). In 1903, he took a key role in a RSDLP ideological split, leading the Bolshevik faction against Julius Martov's Mensheviks. Encouraging insurrection during Russia's failed Revolution of 1905, he later campaigned for the First World War to be transformed into a Europe-wide proletarian revolution, which as a Marxist he believed would cause the overthrow of capitalism and its replacement with socialism. After the 1917 February Revolution ousted the Tsar and established a Provisional Government, he returned to Russia to play a leading role in the October Revolution, in which the Bolsheviks overthrew the new regime.
Lenin's Bolshevik government initially shared power with the Left Socialist Revolutionaries, elected soviets, and a multi-party Constituent Assembly, although by 1918 it had centralised power in the new Communist Party. Lenin's administration redistributed land among the peasantry and nationalised banks and large-scale industry. It withdrew from the First World War by signing a treaty with the Central Powers and promoted world revolution through the Communist International. Opponents were suppressed in the Red Terror, a violent campaign administered by the state security services; tens of thousands were killed or interned in concentration camps. His administration defeated right and left-wing anti-Bolshevik armies in the Russian Civil War from 1917 to 1922 and oversaw the Polish–Soviet War of 1919–1921. Responding to wartime devastation, famine, and popular uprisings, in 1921 Lenin encouraged economic growth through the market-oriented New Economic Policy. Several non-Russian nations secured independence after 1917, but three re-united with Russia through the formation of the Soviet Union in 1922. In increasingly poor health, Lenin died at his dacha in Gorki, with Joseph Stalin succeeding him as the pre-eminent figure in the Soviet government.
Widely considered one of the most significant and influential figures of the 20th century, Lenin was the posthumous subject of a pervasive personality cult within the Soviet Union until its dissolution in 1991. He became an ideological figurehead behind Marxism–Leninism and thus a prominent influence over the international communist movement. A controversial and highly divisive individual, Lenin is viewed by supporters as a champion of socialism and the working class, while critics on both the left and right emphasize his role as founder and leader of an authoritarian regime responsible for political repression and mass killings.
Josip Broz Tito | Wikipedia audio article
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Josip Broz (Cyrillic: Јосип Броз, pronounced [jǒsip brôːz]; 7 May 1892 – 4 May 1980), commonly known as Tito (; Cyrillic: Тито, pronounced [tîto]), was a Yugoslav communist revolutionary and political leader, serving in various roles from 1943 until his death in 1980. During World War II, he was the leader of the Partisans, often regarded as the most effective resistance movement in occupied Europe. While his presidency has been criticized as authoritarian and concerns about the repression of political opponents have been raised, some historians consider him a benevolent dictator. He was a popular public figure both in Yugoslavia and abroad. Viewed as a unifying symbol, his internal policies maintained the peaceful coexistence of the nations of the Yugoslav federation. He gained further international attention as the chief leader of the Non-Aligned Movement, alongside Jawaharlal Nehru of India, Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt, Sukarno of Indonesia, and Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana.Broz was born to a Croat father and Slovene mother in the village of Kumrovec, Austria-Hungary (now in Croatia). Drafted into military service, he distinguished himself, becoming the youngest sergeant major in the Austro-Hungarian Army of that time. After being seriously wounded and captured by the Imperial Russians during World War I, he was sent to a work camp in the Ural Mountains. He participated in some events of the Russian Revolution in 1917 and subsequent Civil War. Upon his return home, Broz found himself in the newly established Kingdom of Yugoslavia, where he joined the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (KPJ).
He was General Secretary (later Chairman of the Presidium) of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia (1939–1980) and went on to lead the World War II Yugoslav guerrilla movement, the Partisans (1941–1945). After the war, he was the Prime Minister (1944–1963), President (later President for Life) (1953–1980) of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY). From 1943 to his death in 1980, he held the rank of Marshal of Yugoslavia, serving as the supreme commander of the Yugoslav military, the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA). With a highly favourable reputation abroad in both Cold War blocs, he received some 98 foreign decorations, including the Legion of Honour and the Order of the Bath.
Tito was the chief architect of the second Yugoslavia, a socialist federation that lasted from November 1942 until April 1992. Despite being one of the founders of Cominform, he became the first Cominform member to defy Soviet hegemony in 1948 and the only one in Joseph Stalin's time to manage to leave Cominform and begin with its own socialist program with elements of market socialism. Economists active in the former Yugoslavia, including Czech-born Jaroslav Vanek and Croat-born Branko Horvat, promoted a model of market socialism dubbed the Illyrian model, where firms were socially owned by their employees and structured on workers' self-management and competed with each other in open and free markets.