Articles
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Alena Boika
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in transition
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01.02.2010
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YEKATERINBURG: IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF ONE’S TRAVEL
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| Yekaterinburg is a city, which can rightly claim to be the chief, if we talk about In Transition. A city where every visitor is trying to find that very point, the Urals, where, you see, it is possible to have one foot in Europe and the second in Asia. A city which can be proud to have the largest number of royal family per unit area. A city which in the 1980’s, still under the name of Sverdlovsk… |
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Alena Boika
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in transition
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01.02.2010
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ZLÍN: DON’T CALL IT A UTOPIA -OR A GARDEN CITY BY AN INDUSTRIALIST, WHO TURNED DREAMS INTO SECONDS
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| My acquaintance with Zlín began when I was preparing the material on Yekaterinburg—the city which is known for its spectacular monuments to the constructivist epoch. Both cities can be proud of being the architectural embodiment of their respective conceptual ideals and, despite the fact those ideals are different to one another both cities architecture is determined by this evidence of Utopias.… |
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Alexander Shaburov
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in transition
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01.02.2010
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THE LAST OF SKOMOROKHS IN MEMORY OF B.U.KASHKIN
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| HE RUSSIAN FLUXUS AND WORD-OF-MOUTH AVANT-GARDE
Provincial geniuses are fated to die in obscurity.
That is why even at his home, in Sverd- lovsk, very few people know now about B.U.Kashkin (1938–2005), an abstract photographer, a conceptual poet, a performance artist and a lot more. The one who stirred up the minds of more than one generation of his countrymen and turned himself into a celebrity,… |
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Darja Kostina
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in transition
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01.02.2010
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FORGOTTEN UTOPIA
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| The emergence of a bright, new architectural phenomenon—Soviet constructivism—in the 1920s is related to a number of technological developments and the incubation of complimentary artistic conditions. At the beginning of the 20th century in Russia, it had become clear that there was a need for the convergence of form and content in architectural structures. This crisis related to the lack of… |
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Adam Nenadál alias Aran Epochal
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The End of the Western Concept
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01.02.2010
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GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR
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| Album covers containing neither the name of the band nor the title of the album. Promotion kept to a minimum. Official band pictures? They don’t exist. And the music? Long, and upon first listening, a randomly ‘collected’ series of compositions without vocals or any clear rhythmic structure. Godspeed You! Black Emperor have always done everything differently. Instead of communicating with the… |
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Jane Neal
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The End of the Western Concept
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01.02.2010
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FAREWELL ARCADIA THE WORK OF GED QUINN
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| Paradise Lost: Man forever separated from the heaven on earth his creator provided for him. We know what comes next: shame, enmity, exile in an unforgiving wilderness and fratricide. Over time, Man’s family has endured flood, famine, war, captivity and tyranny. Whether we’re religiously inclined or not, the story of the Expulsion from Eden and its consequences resonates deeply within the Western… |
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Dejan Sretenović
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The End of the Western Concept
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01.02.2010
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AUTOPSIA OR ON DEATH AND SALVATION
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| Autopsia comes from nowhere. It has no place of origin nor the address. It declared itself for the first time in 1980 with fanzines Bank Rot and Prose Selavy, its biography has not been written until today, the available data about it is scarce and reduced to several published texts and reproductions. It is non-communicative, hermetic and elitist in principle, and is not concerned with the… |
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Donna Howard
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The End of the Western Concept
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01.02.2010
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AESTHETIC QUALITIES OF DECLINE
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| The Bohemian National Hall of New York’s Upper East Side was recently the forum for an Umělec event based on the premise that the ‘Western Concept’ was at its end. The event brought about an array of intriguing ideas as to what it actually meant to partake of this so-called ‘Western Concept’ to begin with, and underlined the relevance of those contemporary artists who seem to be re-evaluating… |
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Ivan Mečl wrote this for his grandfather
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The End of the Western Concept
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01.02.2010
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THE BIGGEST OIL PAINTING IN THE WORLD IS FOR ALL WHO SLIPPED ON THE BANANA PEEL OF THE APOCALYPSE
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| Goldman Sucks, Marryl Lynch, Mad-off and the rest of the lot... for Chrissakes, who in their right mind would entrust their money to companies called that? They’ve got lunacy and destruction written in their names.
George Soros
We don’t need censorship anymore. It’s enough for us to be supervised by self-analysis, responsibility, tact... some Tact, Grampa!, c-o-n-s-i-d-e-r-a-t-i-o-n,… |
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Palo Fabuš, Ivan Mečl
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china
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01.02.2010
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IN CHINA WITH JÉRÔME SANS
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| Chinese art has made inroads into western galleries since the 1990s, but mostly through institutional means or in the environment of private multinational gallery-corporations. The selection is consequently limited and not entirely free, with the same rotation of names and presented with a particular western curatorial lens, lacking both impulsiveness and spontaneity. It might be expected that… |
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