4 documents
Collective Actions
Collective Actions
# 29
Zones of Indistinguishability: Collective Actions Group and Participatory Art
Claire Bishop
The rise of participatory art since the 1990s invites us to constitute a history of this practice, ideally one that reflects the global spread of this work today. 1 In charting this history, important variants appear that challenge the dominant way of thinking about participatory art in Western Europe and North America, where this work tends to be positioned as a political, constructive, and oppositional response to the spectacle’s atomization of social relations. By contrast, the…
e-flux Journal
Posted: November 1, 2011
Subjects
Relational Aesthetics, Soviet Union, Russia, Socially Engaged Art, Censorship, Conceptual & Post-Conceptual Art, Art Collectives
# 29
Moscow, Romantic, Conceptualism, and After
Jörg Heiser
“The general tenor of emotional life in Moscow, thus forming a lyrical and romantic blend, still stands opposed to the dryness of officialdom,” wrote Boris Groys in his 1979 essay “Moscow Romantic Conceptualism,” delineating the state of contemporary artistic practice in the Soviet state. In the essay, Groys discusses the work of Lev Rubinstein, Ivan Chuikow, Francisco Infante, and the artist group Collective Actions ( Kollektivnye deistviya ). Founded in 1976 by Andrei Monastyrski, Georgii…
e-flux Journal
Posted: November 1, 2011
Subjects
Soviet Union, Russia, Conceptual & Post-Conceptual Art, Romanticism, Sublime, Art Collectives
e-flux Announcement
Posted: October 24, 2011
Category
Performance
Subjects
Conceptual & Post-Conceptual Art, Russia, Art Collectives
Institution
Russian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale
Russian Pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale
e-flux Announcement
Posted: May 21, 2011
Subjects
Russia, Art Collectives
Institution