PUBLIC PROGRAM


Contemporary Art Policies in the Conditions of State Oriented Capitalism
a talk by Keti Chukhrov
Wednesday, March 12, 2008, 6:30pm

Keti Chukhrov joins us from Berlin to discuss

  • Fast import of contemporary art.
  • Modernist legacy as the State design and
    the luxury object.
  • Change of strategies in curatorial approaches
    in the late 5 years.
  • The dialectics of extreme urban modernization
    and quasi-pheodal archaisation.
  • Decline of self-organized art ventures and institutions.
  • Imitations of art market.
  • Anti-modernist ethics in works by Olga Chernishova
    and Dm.Gutov.

    • In conjuction with the current exhibition by Boris Groys Thinking in Loop: Three videos on iconoclasm, ritual and immortality.


    Audience at Vinzavod, a new
    multi-gallery space in Moscow
     
      Keti Chukhrov is an art theorist and philosopher, PhD in comparative literature, post-doctoral fellow of Moscow Philosophy Institute of Academy of Sciences, editor of Logos-Altera Publishers; writer for Moscow Art Magazine; and author of numerous publications in various Russian and foreign editions on art, culture, politics and philosophy.

     

    Please join us.
    All     events are open to the public and free.
    Gallery hours are Tues - Sat, 11-6.

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