Cosmic Shift

Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, Russian-born, US-based conceptual artists known for their pioneering large-scale environments and installations. Andrey Monastyrsky, who along with Illya Kabakov, pioneered the Moscow Conceptualism movement. Boris Groys, art critic, media theorist, and philosopher. Bart De Baere, Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Antwerp. Pavel Pepperstein, prominent author, painter and film maker. Dmitri Prigov, famous dissident writer and artist who died in 2007. Anton Vidokle, founder of e-flux. Arseny Zhilyaev, artist and author.

Fascinating ... packed with original essays, projects and even conceptual fiction.

• Foreword – Bart De Baere Acknowledgments – Elena Zaytseva and Alex Anikina Introduction – Elena Zaytseva Part One - Past futures1.The nomadic theater of the communist - Keti Chukhrov2.The center of cosmic energy - Ilya and Emilia Kabakov 3.The truth of art - Boris Groys 4.VDNKh, the capital of the world - Andrey Monastyrsky 5.The Communist Revolution was caused by the Sun - Anton VidoklePart Two - Inherited aesthetics6.History of angels - Joseph Backstein 7.Concerning abstractionism - Dmitry Gutov and Anatoly Osmolovsky 8. Screens - Olga Chernysheva 9.Two manifestos - Dmitry Prigov 10.The form of art as mediation - Maria Chehonadskih 11.Soviet communism and the paradox of alienation - Artemy Magun 12.The Russian avant-garde as an uncontrollable beast- Alexander Brener Part Three - From the archive13. Author, cosmos, archive - Vadim Zakharov 14. A binary system - Bogdan Mamonov 15. You can call him another man - Maria Kapajeva 16. Running to the nest - Andrey Kuzkin 17. Brink, kerbside, fence, margin - Masha Sumnina Part Four - Russia, today18.A heritage without an heir - Ilya Budraitskis 19.Krisis - Dmitry Venkov 20.Questions without answers, answers without questions - Gleb Napreenko 21.The Utopian Union of the Unemployed - Gluklya (Natalia Pershina-Yakimanskaya) 22.Chto Delat? and method - Dmitry Vilensky 23.Weakness - Yevgeny Granilshchikov Part Five - Future futures24.Ultra black - Oxana Timofeeva 25.Demand full automation of contemporary art - Arseny Zhilyaev 26.The Antichthon - Alex Anikina 27.I want to be afraid of the forest - Ivan Novikov 28.The skyscraper-cleaner pine marten - Pavel Pepperstein About the contributors Text credits Image credits Index