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Christina Kiaer is the Frances Hooper Professor in the Arts and Humanities and Chair of the Department of Art History at Northwestern University. She is the author of Imagine No Possessions: The Socialist Objects of Russian Constructivism (MIT, 2005), coauthor with Robert Bird and Zachary Cahill of Revolution Every Day: A Calendar (Mousse, 2017), and coeditor with Eric Naiman of Everyday Life in Early Soviet Russia: Taking the Revolution Inside (Indiana, 2005). She was co-curator, with Robert Bird and Zachary Cahill, of the exhibition Revolution Every Day at the Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, in 2017, and is currently curating the exhibition Collective Threads: Anna Andreeva at the Red Rose Silk Factory, opening at the Museum of Modern Art-Costakis Collection in Thessaloniki in December 2024.
Christina Kiaer, Collective Body: Aleksandr Deineka at the Limit of Socialist Realism
Launch of e-flux journal issue #142: Cosmos Cinema
# 142
Andreeva’s cosmos is a place not to be conquered technologically but to be imagined on its own terms. In the tradition of Russian cosmism, with its utopian and technically unspecific dreams of resurrecting all the dead fathers buried on earth and resettling them on distant twinkling planets, we might say, borrowing from Robert Bird, that she is cosmic-minded, rather than space-race minded.
Useless Uses: International conference on use and uselessness in contemporary art
Comradely Objects: Art Against Reification