Cosmic Shift : Russian Contemporary Art Writing.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Contents -- Foreword - Bart De Baere -- Acknowledgments - Elena Zaytseva and Alex Anikina -- Introduction -- Part One: Past Futures -- 1: Keti Chukhrov: The Nomadic Theater of the Communist: A Manifesto -- 2: Ilya and Emilia: Kabakovthe Center of Cosmic Energy -- I the Principle and Main Structure of the "Center of Cosmic Energy" -- II Four Intuitions -- 3: Boris Groys: The Truth of Art -- 4: Andrey Monastyrsky: VDNKh, the Capital of the World: A Schizoanalysis -- 5: Anton Vidokle: The Communist Revolution was caused by the Sun: A Partial Script for a Short Film -- A Field of Wind Turbines -- Desert, a Mountain of Sand -- A Dressing Room of a Nightclub -- A Village Cemetery Near Almata -- Fields on the Outskirts of an Industrial City -- A Factory Workshop -- Aerial View of a Vast Cemetery -- A Two-Lane Road after Dark -- Note -- Part Two: Inherited Aesthetics -- 6: Joseph Backstein: History of Angels -- A Tour of the Philosophy of Angels -- On Succession in Art -- So What Is the Essence of Moscow Conceptualism and Why Should So Much Attention Be Paid to It? -- On the Correlation of the Visual and the Verbal in Russian Art -- On the Notion of the Borderline in Art -- References -- 7: Dmitry Gutov and Anatoly Osmolovsky: Concerning Abstractionism -- Letter 1 -- Letter 2 -- Letter 3 -- Letter 7 -- Letter 12 -- Letter 14 (Extract) -- Letter 17 -- Note -- 8: Olga Chernysheva: Screens -- 9: Dmitry Prigov: Two Manifestos -- Where Are Our Hands, in Which Our Future Lies? -- The Second Sacro-Cularization -- 10: Maria Chehonadskih: The Form of Art as Mediation: A History and Storytelling before and After Moscow Conceptualism -- In Place of an Introduction: A ≠ A, or Dialectical Doubt -- Benjamin's "Storyteller" and the Land of Soviets -- The Storyteller after the Storyteller: The Experience of Soviet Conceptualism.

Notes -- 11: Artemy Magun: Soviet Communism and the Paradox of Alienation -- Communism as Idea -- "Communism" of the Past and Communism of the Future -- Desert Communism -- Negativity in Communism -- Notes -- 12: Alexander Brener: The Russian Avant-Garde as an Uncontrollable Beast -- Part Three: From the Archive -- 13: Vadim Zakharov: Author, Cosmos, Archive -- Additional Terms Used by Vadim Zakharov from The Dictionary of Terms of the Moscow Conceptual School -- Notes -- 14: Bogdan Mamonov: A Binary System -- 15: Maria Kapajeva: You Can Call Him another Man (2015-2017) -- Note -- 16: Andrey Kuzkin: Running to the Nest -- Foreword -- The Journey -- There -- Event Number One - The Manipulator Mirror -- Event Number Two - The Green Swing -- Event Number Three - The Red-Dotted Wood -- Event Number Four - The Triang -- 17: Masha Sumnina: Brink, Kerbside, Fence, Margin -- Part Four: Russia, Today -- 18: Ilya Budraitskis: A Heritage Without an Heir -- The 'Eternal Present': The Russian Version -- A Revolution against Circumstances -- Order and Disorder -- On the Path to the "Historical Russia" -- The Nontransparency of the Heritage -- Notes -- 19: Dmitry Venkov: Krisis: A Film Script -- 20: Gleb Napreenko: Questions Without Answers, Answers Without Questions -- 21: Gluklya / Nataliapershina-Yakimanskaya: The Utopian Union of the Unemployed -- 05.09.16 -- 06.09.16 -- 07.09.16 -- 08.09.16 -- 09.09.16 -- 10.09.16 -- 11.09.16 -- 12.09.16 -- 15.09.16 -- 16.09.16 -- 17.09.16 -- 18.09.16 -- 19.09.16 -- 20.09.16 -- 21.09.16 -- 22.09.16 -- 23.09.16 -- 24.09.16 -- 25.09.16 -- 26.09.16 -- 27.09.16 -- 28.09.16 -- 29.09.16 -- 30.09.16 -- 31.09.16 -- 1.10.16 -- 24.09.16 -- 22: Dmitry Vilensky: Chto Delat? and Method: Practicing Dialecticm -- Mixing Different Things -- On the Usefulness of Declarations -- On the Totality of Capital, or Playing the Idiot.

Being Productive? -- On Compromises -- On Working with Institutions -- On Subjugation to the Dominant Class -- On the Historicity of Art -- The Formula of Dialectical Cinema -- On Financing -- On the Boundaries of the Disciplines -- On the Question of Self-Education -- On the Theory of the Weakest Link -- On the Withering Away of Art -- On the Utility of Reading, Viewing and the Supreme Privilege -- Ideas and the Masses -- On Universality -- On World Art -- On Leaders -- On Defamiliarization and Subversive Affirmation -- Is It Possible to Make Love Politically? -- 23: Yevgeny Granilshchikov: Weakness: A Scenario for Two Actors and One Camera -- Part Five: Future Futures -- 24: Oxana Timofeeva: Ultra Black: Brief Notes Towards a Materialist Theory of Oil -- 25: Arseny Zhilyaev: Demand Full Automation of Contemporary Art -- 26: Alex Anikina: The Antichthon -- 27: Ivan Novikovi: Want to Be Afraid of the Forest -- 28: Pavel Pepperstein: The Skyscraper-Cleaner Pine Marten -- About the Contributors -- Text Credits -- Image Credits -- Index.

The first anthology of Russian contemporary art writing to be published outside Russia, painting a vivid portrait of the country's cultural and political makeup.

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