Boris (Global Distinguished Professor, New York University) Groys
The fictitious hero of this 1984 installation is a lonely dreamer who develops an impossible project: to fly alone in cosmic space. But this dream is also an individual appropriation of a collective Soviet project and the official Soviet propaganda connected to it. Having built a makeshift slingshot, the hero apparently flies through the ceiling of his shabby room and vanishes into space. The miserable room and the primitive slingshot suggest the reality behind the Soviet utopia, in which where cosmic vision and the political project of the Communist revolution are seen as indissoluble.The...
The fictitious hero of this 1984 installation is a lonely dreamer who develops an impossible project: to fly alone in cosmic space. But this dream ...
Die Vorstellung des Anfangs bei Null in bezug sowohl auf die gesellschaftliche Existenz als auch auf das knstlerische Schaffen stand im Mittelpunkt der Auseinandersetzungen der russischen Avantgarde und schien im Zuge des Umsturzes im Oktober 1917 ihren utopischen Charakter zu verlieren: Die Avantgarde konnte in dieser einzigartigen historischen Situation nicht nur die Besttigung ihrer theoretischen Konstruktionen und knstlerischen Intuitionen sehen, sondern auch eine einmalige Chance zu ihrer Umsetzung in die Praxis. Dies belegen die in diesem Band versammelten, zum Teil erstmals auf deutsch...
Die Vorstellung des Anfangs bei Null in bezug sowohl auf die gesellschaftliche Existenz als auch auf das knstlerische Schaffen stand im Mittelpunkt de...
Die heutige Welt ist gekennzeichnet von Projekten nicht blo der konomischen, sondern auch der politischen und ideologischen Globalisierung. All diese Unternehmungen versuchen, sich mit revolutionren oder mit friedlichen Mitteln durchzusetzen - vom vereinten Europa bis zum politischen Islam. Stets handelt es sich dabei um postkommunistische Projekte, denn erstens ist ihre Entstehung vor allem durch den Untergang des Kommunismus mglich geworden, und zweitens sind ihre Strategien und Ziele zutiefst von den Erfahrungen des historischen Kommunismus geprgt - sowohl im positiven wie im negativen...
Die heutige Welt ist gekennzeichnet von Projekten nicht blo der konomischen, sondern auch der politischen und ideologischen Globalisierung. All diese ...
On the New looks at the economies of exchange and valuation that drive modern culture's key sites: the intellectual marketplace and the archive. As ideas move from one context to another, newness is created. This continuous shifting of the line that separates the valuable from the worthless, culture from profanity, is at the center of Boris Groys's investigation which aims to map the uncharted territory of what constitutes artistic innovation and what processes underpin its recognition and appropriation.
On the New looks at the economies of exchange and valuation that drive modern culture's key sites: the intellectual marketplace and the archive...
On the New looks at the economies of exchange and valuation that drive modern culture's key sites: the intellectual marketplace and the archive. As ideas move from one context to another, newness is created. This continuous shifting of the line that separates the valuable from the worthless, culture from profanity, is at the center of Boris Groys's investigation which aims to map the uncharted territory of what constitutes artistic innovation and what processes underpin its recognition and appropriation.
On the New looks at the economies of exchange and valuation that drive modern culture's key sites: the intellectual marketplace and the archive...
The leading art theorist takes on art in the age of the Internet In the early twentieth century, art and its institutions came under critique from a new democratic and egalitarian spirit. The notion of works of art as sacred objects was decried and subsequently they would be understood merely as things. This meant an attack on realism, as well as on the traditional preservative mission of the museum. Acclaimed art theorist Boris Groys argues this led to the development of -direct realism- an art that would not produce objects, but practices (from performance art to relational...
The leading art theorist takes on art in the age of the Internet In the early twentieth century, art and its institutions came under criti...
In this, the first anthology of Russian contemporary art writing to be published outside Russia, many of the country's most prominent contemporary artists, writers, philosophers, curators and historians come together to examine the region's various movements of contemporary art, culture, and theory, from communism, cosmism and conceptualism to past and future futures. With contributions from Barte de Baere, Boris Groys, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, Anton Vidokle, Bogdan Mamonov, Pavel Pepperstein, Dimitri Prigov and Maria Sumnina amongst many others, this definitive collection reveals a...
In this, the first anthology of Russian contemporary art writing to be published outside Russia, many of the country's most prominent contemporary art...
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.
Crucial texts, many available in English for the first time, written before and during the Bolshevik Revolution by the radical biopolitical utopianist...