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Dmitri Prigov
Dmitri Prigov
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Dmitri Prigov: Haunted Spaces
Boris Groys
Don’t start from the good old things but the bad new ones.
—Bertolt Brecht
In the 1970s Dmitry Prigov became known in Moscow’s literary and artistic milieus mainly as a poet. However, from the beginning of his career he demonstrated a somewhat unusual type of poetic behavior—unusual for the time in which he started his poetic readings and the public he was appealing to. These readings were actually performances, situated in a still-not-well-explored zone between literature and…
e-flux Journal
Posted: March 3, 2017
Category
Performance, Image
Subjects
Soviet Union, Poetry, Russia, Conceptual & Post-Conceptual Art