The militiaman. A Poetic Performance by Dmitry A. Prigov
Today is the 75th birthday of the Russian poet Dmitry A. Prigov (5 November 1940, Moscow – 16 July 2007, Moscow). The poet as a militiaman – we met...
“Stasi-Dada: How artists work with their Stasi records” by Sylvia Sasse
Usually, the official records of secret services reveal little far less about those being observed than they do about the various fears of those doing the observing. These fears can...
“Of night rides and comparisons” by Nastasia Louveau
Night buses, night trains and night flights have been my favored way of moving around lately. No real comfort, no sound sleep either, just plain moving forward, a night shift...
“Talking to Ion Grigorescu” / Day 5 by Kata Krasznahorkai
DAY 5: So I was walking around the block of Mr Grigorescu’s home for an hour before I rang the bell on the door — the bell that was ringing...
“Talking with Ion Grigorescu” / Day 4 by Kata Krasznahorkai
Arriving at Grigorescu`s home at 10 am as usual, I`m very excited how we will proceed when I ring the bell, next to his, the names of his father-in-law, the...
“Talking with Ion Grigorescu”/ Day 3 by Kata Krasznahorkai
DAY 3: One moment has faded with time so I can’t connect it with a specific date — there was a day when Mr Grigorescu was so generous as to...
“Talking with Ion Grigorescu” / Day 2 by Kata Krasznahorkai
I already knew from my last visit that every day is a surprise with Ion Grigorescu. And I’m not the one who makes the choreography. So when I was slightly...
“A Flaming Gauntlet. Reflections on Petr Pavlensky’s action ‘Threat'” by Sandra Frimmel
On the night of November 9th, 2015, the radical performance artist based in St. Petersburg, Petr Pavlensky, set fire to the main entrance door of the Lubyanka building in Moscow,...
“Talking with Ion Grigorescu” / Day 1 by Kata Krasznahorkai
On my way to visit Ion Grigorescu after 13 years in Bucharest I heard the news while flying above the Carpathians that 20.000 people were on the streets demonstrating against...
State (Re-)Actions. A Short Video Interview with Miško Šuvaković
Miško Šuvaković was a central protagonist of the Yugoslavian performance art scene of the 1970’s and is now still active as an art historian and theoretician. In this short...
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