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A Barbarian in the Greenroom
Cicada Press editors Matthew Whitley and Anastasiya Osipova recently created a micropublication and risograph series of prints for the show “Vertical Reach: Political Protest and the Militant Aesthetic Now, ” hosted by Artspace in New Haven. The edition, entitled “A Barbarian in the Greenroom: Politics and Aesthetics in the Age of Surkov, ” consists of 2 large installation prints, along with 12 packaged prints and accompanying texts, as a sort of bestiary of contemporary political concepts, tactics and strategies. All can be loosely tied to Kremlin ideologue and strategist Vladislav Surkov, who is taken as the publication’s skeletal core and anti-hero.
Reported Speech
Poetry. Edited by Anastasiya Osipova. REPORTED SPEECH is a bilingual edition of Pavel Arseniev's (Saint Petersburg) poetry with an introduction by Kevin M.F. Platt (University of Pennsylvania). Arseniev's poetry provides a living link between the legacy of the 1920s Soviet avant-garde art and theory, on the one hand, and the modern Western materialist thought on the other. It traces how these influences become weaponized in the language of contemporary Russian protest culture. Arseniev readily politicizes all, even the most mundane facts of the poet's life, while approaching reified bits of found speech and propaganda with lithe, at times corrosive irony and lyricism.
Anton Ginzburg
Es begann mit der Erforschung des Hyperborea-Mythos. Es schloss sich eine Erkundung des Aralsees an. Nun richtet Anton Ginzburg seinen Blick auf die Epoche des Konstruktivismus und beschließt damit eine faszinierende Trilogie von Büchern. Als Künstler und Forscher blickt Ginzburg kritisch auf die Arbeiten bekannter Konstruktivisten wie Rodtschenko und Tatlin oder der VkhUTEMAS. Er entdeckt in ihren Werken die antreibende Kraft ihrer Utopien zugleich mit den Gefahren auch die Grenzen dieser Ambitionen. Aus diesen Erkenntnissen gehen Ginzburgs Werke hervor. Sie sind inspiriert von der vorgefundenen Ästhetik und lassen diese aufleben. Sie wahren dennoch die Distanz eines Kommentars. Wie in den beiden vorangegangenen Installationen stellt Ginzburg auch hier die Frage nach dem Werden: Welche Bedeutung haben die vergangenen Phänomene für die Gegenwart, welche Gestalt nehmen sie heute an? Ginzburgs Skulpturen, Malerei und Video sind die eindrucksvolle Antwort.
Supercommunity
Leading artists, theorists, and writers exhume the dystopian and utopian futures contained within the present “I am the supercommunity, and you are only starting to recognize me. I grew out of something that used to be humanity. Some have compared me to angry crowds in public squares; others compare me to wind and atmosphere, or to software.” Invited to exhibit at the 56th Venice Biennale, e-flux journal produced a single issue over a four-month span, publishing an article a day both online and on site from Venice. In essays, poems, short stories, and plays, artists and theorists trace the negative collective that is the subject of contemporary life, in which art, the internet, and globalization have shed their utopian guises but persist as naked power, in the face of apocalyptic ecological disaster and against the claims of the social commons. “I convert care to cruelty, and cruelty back to care. I convert political desires to economic flows and data, and then I convert them back again. I convert revolutions to revelations. I don’t want security, I want to leave, and then disperse myself everywhere and all the time.”
Circling the Square
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Fallout
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2020 New York Times bestselling author Lesley M.M. Blume reveals how one courageous American reporter uncovered one of the deadliest cover-ups of the 20th century—the true effects of the atom bomb—potentially saving millions of lives. Just days after the United States decimated Hiroshima and Nagasaki with nuclear bombs, the Japanese surrendered unconditionally. But even before the surrender, the US government and military had begun a secret propaganda and information suppression campaign to hide the devastating nature of these experimental weapons. The cover-up intensified as Occupation forces closed the atomic cities to Allied reporters, preventing leaks...
Russian Cosmism
Crucial texts, many available in English for the first time, written before and during the Bolshevik Revolution by the radical biopolitical utopianists of Russian Cosmism. Cosmism emerged in Russia before the October Revolution and developed through the 1920s and 1930s; like Marxism and the European avant-garde, two other movements that shared this intellectual moment, Russian Cosmism rejected the contemplative for the transformative, aiming to create not merely new art or philosophy but a new world. Cosmism went the furthest in its visions of transformation, calling for the end of death, the resuscitation of the dead, and free movement in cosmic space. This volume collects crucial texts, ma...
Freedom Taking Place: War, Women and Culture at the Intersection of Ukraine, Poland, and Belarus
Freedom as a concept shifts with different forms of expression. As the authors of this volume convey in their focus on 'freedom of expression', the idea of 'freedom' in the twenty-first century does not stand apart as a purely physical location marked by national borders. In the Internet Age information is increasingly co-determinate of physical freedom. The information-dense space of the protests of 2021, and beyond, provide soil for the intellectuals writing in this volume to reflect on women’s agency in struggles for human rights. Where historical discourse on “The Woman Question” once conflicted with “feminism” as a perceived importation from the West, this conflict also produc...
Avant-Garde Post–
The remarkable story of seven contemporary Russian-language poets whose experimental work anchors a thriving dissident artistic movement opposed to both Putin’s regime and Western liberalism. What does leftist art look like in the wake of state socialism? In recent years, Russian-language avant-garde poetry has been seeking the answers to this question. Marijeta Bozovic follows a constellation of poets at the center of a contemporary literary movement that is bringing radical art out of the Soviet shadow: Kirill Medvedev, Pavel Arseniev, Aleksandr Skidan, Dmitry Golynko, Roman Osminkin, Keti Chukhrov, and Galina Rymbu. While their formal experiments range widely, all share a commitment to ...
LIFE IN SPACE.
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