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Moscow Romantic Exceptionalism: The Suspension of Disbelief
Sarah Wilson
I do not complain about anything and everything pleases me despite the fact that I have never been here before and know nothing about these parts.
—Collective Actions slogan, January 26, 1977, Leningradskaia railroad, Frinsaovka station 1
In 2005–6, I experienced a coup de foudre —a lightning blast of admiration—when I discovered Collective Actions and their performances in the snow. Later I attended Boris Groys’s talk at his Total Enlightenment exhibition in…
e-flux Journal
Posted: November 1, 2011
Subjects
Russia, Conceptual & Post-Conceptual Art, Everyday Life, Poetry, Art Criticism, Cold War