Discussion: Art in Exclusion Zones during the Garage Triennial of Russian Contemporary Art
Discussion: Art in Exclusion Zones at Garage during the Garage Triennial of Russian Contemporary Art.
In response to the growing interest in the intersections between art and politics, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art invited visitors to a discussion of aesthetic means of resistance, trauma mitigation and artistic collaboration in a situation of growing tension.
The map of the world is changing, and as borders between the states are being redefined, ‘zones of exclusion’ emerge in areas of greatest political and cultural tension.
Regardless of the roots of social conflicts, they tend to result in growing xenophobia, which can put contemporary art on the brink of survival.
What can an artist do to overcome the alienation and disregard for contemporary art in an increasingly conservative society? How can our cultural policies help people who inhabit these ‘exclusion zones’?
Discussing these questions will be art theorists and practitioners from Russia, neighboring countries, and Eastern Europe, affected by recent geopolitical conflicts.
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Tatyana Volkova (b. 1978, Moscow) is registrar at Garage Media Archive. In 2004 she studied at the International Studio & Curatorial Program in New York. From 2000 to 2013 she was part of Andrey Erofeev’s curatorial team at the Department of Current Trends of Tsaritsyno Museum and Natural Reserve, and later at the the State Tretyakov Gallery and ArtKladovka Archive of Russian Contemporary Art. In 2011, she became the founder and member of the executive team of MediaUdar Festival, which has taken place in Yekaterinburg, Krasnodar, Moscow, Murmansk, Nizhny Novgorod, Novosibirsk, Samara, Saint Petersburg, and Togliatti. She writes and gives lectures on contemporary art and is the recipient of Kariatida Prize (2013).
Kornelija Ičin (b. 1964, Belgrade) is a literary and Slavic scholar, translator, and expert in Russian avant-garde. She studied Philology at the Belgrade University and is now working as a professor at the same department. She has been the chief editor of Matica Srpska Journal of Slavic Studies since 2013. She lives and works in Belgrade.
Sasha Obukhova (b. 1967, Moscow) is an art historian and curator of Garage Archive Collection. She graduated from Moscow State University in 1992 and in 1993 studied at the Central European University (Prague). She has worked at the Institute of Contemporary Art, the State Tretyakov Gallery, and the National Center for Contemporary Art. In 2000 she was part of the working group that curated The Art of the Second Half of the XX Century, a permanent exhibition for the Tretyakov Gallery. In 2004 she became a founding member and director of the Art Projects Foundation, where she established ACRA (the Archive of Contemporary Russian Art). She is a member of the Advisory Board of Kandinsky Prize.
Polina Rodrigues (b.1979, Simferopol) is a set designer, costume designer, illustrator, and curator of the arts section at Ya-Yunost Festival (Simferopol). In 2010, Rodriguez founded the art group Dom na kolesakh. She has taken part in a number of group exhibitions, including Bloom (Sevastopol, 2011), Hitch & Clam (Sevastopol, 2011, 2013), Triennial of Young Art (Simferopol, 2011), and Turning Tides (Durham, 2016). Her recent performances include Through the Fingers (Sevastopol, 2016), Frames (Nizhny Novgorod, 2017) and Meshes (Moscow, 2017). She lives and works in Simferopol.
Anton Romanov (b. 1985, Simferopol) is a performance artist and theatre director. In 2003, he completed a course in Event Directing at the Crimea College of Culture and in 2011 graduated from Kharkiv National Kotlyarevsky University of Arts. He has worked at Severodonetsk Drama Theatre, Cherkassk Academic Shevchenko Theatre of Music and Drama, Young Academic Theatre in Kiev, and Kiev’s Sozvezdie Studio among other Ukrainian theatres. From 2003 to 2014, he was director at Mi Theatre in Simferopol. In 2016, he became the co-founder and director of PostPlay Theatre. In the same year, he took part in Polish-Ukrainian project Maps of Fear/Maps of Identity in Lviv. He lives and works in Kiev.
Anton Trofimov (b. 1981, Simferopol) is an artist, photographer and philosopher. In 2004, he graduated in Philosophy from Taurida National V.I. Vernadsky University in Simferopol and in 2006 completed his studies at the Graduate School of European Cultures of the Russian State University for the Humanities in Moscow.
He has published several articles on the history of Soviet intelligentsia and civil society. He was the organiser of several Monstration rallies in Simferopol (2009-2014) and the national language test Total Dictation (2014-2017). He lives and works in Simferopol.
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Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, 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...
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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.
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00:05:23 1 Etymology
00:10:47 2 History
00:10:56 2.1 Early history
00:12:10 2.2 Principality of Polotsk
00:12:46 2.3 Grand Duchy of Lithuania
00:14:57 2.4 Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
00:17:22 2.5 Russian Empire
00:19:44 2.6 Belarusian People's Republic
00:20:43 2.7 Republic of Central Lithuania
00:22:21 2.8 Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic
00:27:24 2.9 Independence
00:28:46 2.10 Post-independence
00:30:25 3 Geography and climate
00:34:07 4 Governance
00:37:30 4.1 Election controversies
00:39:51 4.2 Corruption
00:40:35 4.3 Human rights
00:42:38 4.4 Foreign relations
00:47:17 4.5 Military
00:49:15 4.6 Administrative divisions
00:51:10 4.7 Capital punishment
00:51:39 5 Economy
00:51:48 5.1 Industry
00:57:33 6 Demographics
00:58:47 6.1 Languages
01:01:44 6.2 Religion
01:02:28 7 Culture
01:04:37 7.1 Arts and literature
01:04:46 7.2 Dress
01:09:57 7.3 Cuisine
01:10:47 7.4 Sport
01:11:33 7.5 Telecommunications
01:14:17 7.6 World Heritage Sites
01:15:00 8 See also
01:15:27 9 References
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Belarus (; Belarusian: Беларусь, IPA: [bʲɛlaˈrusʲ]), officially the Republic of Belarus (Belarusian: Рэспубліка Беларусь, Russian: Республика Беларусь), formerly known by its Russian name Byelorussia or Belorussia (Russian: Белоруссия), is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe bordered by Russia to the northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Its capital and most populous city is Minsk. Over 40% of its 207,600 square kilometres (80,200 sq mi) is forested. Its major economic sectors are service industries and manufacturing. Until the 20th century, different states at various times controlled the lands of modern-day Belarus, including the Principality of Polotsk (11th to 14th centuries), the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, and the Russian Empire.
In the aftermath of the 1917 Russian Revolution, Belarus declared independence as the Belarusian People's Republic, which was conquered by Soviet Russia. The Socialist Soviet Republic of Byelorussia became a founding constituent republic of the Soviet Union in 1922 and was renamed as the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (Byelorussian SSR). Belarus lost almost half of its territory to Poland after the Polish–Soviet War of 1919–1921. Much of the borders of Belarus took their modern shape in 1939, when some lands of the Second Polish Republic were reintegrated into it after the Soviet invasion of Poland, and were finalized after World War II. During WWII, military operations devastated Belarus, which lost about a third of its population and more than half of its economic resources. The republic was redeveloped in the post-war years. In 1945 the Byelorussian SSR became a founding member of the United Nations, along with the Soviet Union and the Ukrainian SSR.The parliament of the republic proclaimed the sovereignty of Belarus on 27 July 1990, and during the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Belarus declared independence on 25 August 1991. Alexander Lukashenko has served as the country's first president since 1994. Belarus has been labeled Europe's last dictatorship by some Western journalists, on account of Lukashenko's self-described authoritarian style of government. Lukashenko continued a number of Soviet-era policies, such as state ownership of large sections of the economy. Elections under Lukashenko's rule have been widely criticized as unfair; and according to many countries and organizations, political opposition has been violently suppressed. Belarus is also the last country in Europe using the death penalty. Belarus's Democracy Index rating is the lowest in Europe, the country is labelled as no ...
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Alexei Maximovich Peshkov (Russian: Алексе́й Макси́мович Пешко́в or Пе́шков; 28 March [O.S. 16 March] 1868 – 18 June 1936), primarily known as Maxim (Maksim) Gorky (Russian: Макси́м Го́рький), was a Russian and Soviet writer, a founder of the socialist realism literary method and a political activist. He was also a five-time nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Around fifteen years before success as a writer, he frequently changed jobs and roamed across the Russian Empire; these experiences would later influence his writing. Gorky's most famous works were The Lower Depths (1902), Twenty-six Men and a Girl, The Song of the Stormy Petrel, My Childhood, Mother, Summerfolk and Children of the Sun. He had an association with fellow Russian writers Leo Tolstoy and Anton Chekhov; Gorky would later mention them in his memoirs.
Gorky was active with the emerging Marxist social-democratic movement. He publicly opposed the Tsarist regime, and for a time closely associated himself with Vladimir Lenin and Alexander Bogdanov's Bolshevik wing of the party, but later became a bitter critic of Lenin as an overly ambitious, cruel and power-hungry potentate who tolerated no challenge to his authority. For a significant part of his life, he was exiled from Russia and later the Soviet Union. In 1932, he returned to USSR on Joseph Stalin's personal invitation and died there in June 1936.