Abrahamic war machine, 408
absolute, concept of, 214
abstractionism, 127
actionism, 11, 346, 348, 349, 350
activist art, 14
Adorno, Theodor, 145, 152, 153, 154
aesthetic nature of Soviet communism, 218
aestheticization of politics, 381
aesthetics: as the politicization of art, 381; politicization of, 123
Against All movement, 347
alienation, paradox of, 209–30
AlphaGo program, 414
An-Os, 378
“Angels of History – Moscow Conceptualism and its Influences”, 114
Anikina, Alex, How to Operate as a Human Artist, or the Antichthon, 16, 433–60
Anthropocene, 464
anthropomorphization of plants, 464
anti-communism, 315
anti-Stalinism, 13
Anufriev, Sergei, 81
Arab Spring, 191
Archive of New Art, 251
archives, 12, 247–58; as sites of social change, 245; become art genre, 250; closing and burning of, 250; of the art of the future, 425–6, 429
Aronson, Oleg 218
art: analogous with crime, 54; and non-art, 124, 150; basic characteristics of, 134–5; communist by nature, 25; contemporary, training in, 419; documentation of, 61–2; emptiness of, 368; explosive production of, 65; form of, as mediation, 191–208; institutions of, 120; labeled as “human-made”, 422; local dialects of, 418; meaning of, 357; political effectiveness of, 55; post-medium condition of, 415; representational, 429; transcendence or annihilation of, 427; truth of, 53–68, 172 (loss of, 55) see also automation of contemporary art and borderline, concept of, in art
artist: role of, 416; self-formation of, 418; takes on function of institutions, 254
artist-poet, image of, 174
artists, surplus of vision, 65
Aseev, Nikolai, 233
assembly line, 159
automation of contemporary art, 413–31
autonomy, 9, 120; quest for, 2
avant-garde, 152, 153, 154–5, 182, 184, 204–5, 218, 231–9, 419, 426; definition of, 182; varieties of, 420
Ayer, A. J., 405
Bakhtin, Mikhail, 221
Backstein, Joseph, 251
Barad, Karen, 400
Barricade collective action, 343
Bataille, Georges, 408–9; “Materialism”, 405; The Accursed Share, 406
Baudelaire, Charles, 66
Bauhaus, 56
Beckett, Samuel, Waiting for Godot, 28
becoming a beast, 233
Benjamin, Walter, 62, 111, 218, 237, 320, 381, 431; “The Storyteller”, 193–7
block chain, 421
Boehme, Jakob, 178
Bolshevik Party, 14, 316, 317, 318, 320, 327, 328, 336, 337, 339, 403
Bolshevism, dual nature of, 322
Bombily group, 349
book object, without beginning or end, 433
borderline, concept of, in art, 123–5
bourgeois revolution, effects of, 213
Brazil, xi
Brecht, Bertolt, 211, 371, 373, 374, 381
Brener, Alexander, 10, 202, 203; “The First Glove”, 202, 341–4; “The Russian Avant-Garde as an Uncontrollable Beast”, 11, 231–9; What David Didn’t Finish, 343
Breton, André, 59
Brezhnev, Leonid, 114
Buddhism, 80
Budraitskis, Ilya, xiii
bulldozer exhibition, 115
bureaucratization of art, 417
cabotinage, 28
Caillois, Roger, 66
Camatte, Jacques, 239
camera, use of, 438
Castaneda, Carlos, The Eagle’s Gift, 76
Center for Independent Social Research, 363
Center of Cosmic Energy, 33–52
Chakhotkin, Sergei, “To Canossa”, 326
Change of Signposts, 325–6, 328
Chechnya, 343
Chernikhov, Iakov, 8
Chernysheva, Olga, “Screens”, 10
China, xi; Cultural Revolution, 464
Chizhevsky, Alexander, 7
“Chto Delat? (What Is To Be Done?)”, 4, 14, 16, 371–81
civil society, 214
Civil War, reconciliation in, 323
cliché, poetic of, 218
Club of Avantgardists (CLAVA), 114
Collective Actions group, 4, 201
collector, relation with institutional patron, 417
Committee for State Security (KGB), x
communality, 217, 219, 220, 225
communism, 4–5, 9, 23, 25–32, 79, 83, 84, 91–103, 147, 209–30; as idea, 211–15; definition of, political, 215; of the future, 215–19; of the past, 215–19; project of, 30 see also desert communism and War Communism
communist anti-communism, 225
communist capitalism, 217
Communist Party, 119, 327; leadership of, 81, 82
communitarianism, 214
conceptualism, 12; rejection/transcendence of, 205 see also Moscow conceptualism
Congress of Russian Historians, 314
constructivism, x, 56, 185, 415
cosmic energy, 33–52; flows of, 39–40, 43–4; processing of, 36
cosmism, xiii, xiv, 4–7, 9, 23, 403, 423, 430
cosmonauts, 81
cosmos, 247–58, 403–4; complex concept, 71
creation, process of, 60
creative activity, value of, 421
creative genius, 416
Crescent Moon, 257
Critchley, Simon, 405
criticism of the Earth, 211–12
cultural production, mass, 66
cut and paste, 68
Dada, 415
De Stijl, 56
death drive, 407
declarations, usefulness of, 372
decommunization, 315
decompositions, 237
Deep Blue, 413
Delphi, 39; Temple of Apollo, 42
Derrida, Jacques, 329
Descartes, René, 223
Di-Gu, Master, 378
dictatorship of the proletariat, 320, 327
difference, 66
Dionysius the Areopagite, 80
disciplines, boundaries of, 375
Dobychin, Leonid, “Konopatchikova”, 200
Doherty, Melanie, 409
Domestic Services pavilion at VDNKh, 74–5, 77
Dubossarsky, Vladimir, 114
Duchamp, Marcel, 462; urinal, 183, 193
Durham, Jimmie, 1
Dzerzhinsky, Felix, 333–4, 336
education, unavoidably evil, 375
Eiffel Tower, 57
Elagina, Elena, 250
Engineer’s Case, 262
Essen, caves in, 33
Essen phenomenon, 35
eternal life, 424
ETI (Expropriation of the Territory of Art) movement, 203, 346; “KhUI”, 203
“everyone is an artist”, 423
exhibition spaces, limitations of, 27
exodus, 214
Facebook, 65
fear of forests see forests, fear of
Fedorov, Nikolay, 5–7, 103, 247, 423, 431
Florensky, Pavel, 238
formalism, 462
France, 227
Frankfurt School, 3
Free the Flagstone, 348
French Revolution, 6, 211, 324, 329
Friendship of Nations fountain, in VDNKh, 78
Furet, François, 325
futurism, 185
Gagarin, Yuri, 7
Gastev, Alexey, 212
gaze, algorithmic, 65
Godard, Jean-Luc, 371, 374, 375
Goethe, J. W. von, 150
Golden Ear of Wheat fountain in VDNKh, 70–83 passim
Google, 64
Gorbachev, Mikhail, x
Granilshchikov, Yevgeny, xiii; “Weakness”, 15, 383–90
grapevine transmission of information, 201
Great Outdoors, 402–3, 405, 410
Greenberg, Clement, 10, 151–2, 153–4
Groys, Boris, xii, 3, 8, 11, 149, 225, 228; Communist Post-Script, 217–18; “Ilya Kabakov. The artist as storyteller”, 198
Gundlach, Sven, 81
happiness, individual, valuing of, 219
Harman, Graham, 400
Hegel, G. W. F., 55, 214, 317, 327, 405, 410
Heidegger, Martin, 58
heimlich / unheimlich, 404
Hemingway, Ernest, The Old Man and the Sea, 354
heritage, of the revolution, 315
hermeneutics: monetization of, 63–4; on the internet, 64
Hesse, Hermann, 113
historicity, of art, 374
history: of the nation, 313–14; views of, 264
House of Arts, Lecce, 15
human, concept of, 400
“Hunger Strike”, 369
Iceland, 42
ideas and the masses, 379
identities, revolt against, 67
idleness, 239
imagination, political, 13
informational story, 204
internet, 127, 201, 417; organization of, 68; replaces traditional art institutions, 59–61; surveillance via, 63
intuition, 37–44; as cognitive capacity, 36–7; “Close energy”, 43–4; of 60 degrees, 39–41; of place, 38–9; “The throne”, 41–3
isms, disrespect for, 234
Italy, 227
Jaspers, Karl, 118
Kabakov, Ilya, xi, 4, 5, 117, 119, 120, 198, 199, 201, 204, 249, 251; “The Big Archive”, 252; The Letter, 123
Kagarlitsky, Boris, 112
Kandinsky, Vassily, 469
Kandinsky-Clérambault syndrome, 470
Kapajeva, Maria, “Reading Apocrypha”, 12; “You Can Call Him Another Man, 267–82
Kasparov, Gary, 413
Khengsen, Sabina, 251
Khlebnikov, Velimir, 197; “The Menagerie”, 236
Kiev, 231
Klee, Paul, “Angelus novus”, 111
Kliuchnikov, Yury, 326
Klutsis, Gustav, 40
knowledge is one, 375
Kolyma, 336 see also GULAG
Komar, Vitaly, 116, 117, 122; with Alexander Melamid, Laika, 249
Kostyleva, Elena, Why the Chicken Was Pinched..., 348
Krasovskaya, Svetlana, 197
Krauss, Rosalind, 415
Kruchenykh, Alexei, 233, 237–8
Krug club, 175
Kulik, Oleg, 10, 114, 202–3, 348, 349
Kuzkin, Andrey: “Running to the Nest”, 283–300; “To be an Artist is to be an Indian”, 295
Kuznetsova, Anna, 261
language, 187; banality of, 237
Le Bon, Gustave, 217
Lebedev, Rostislav, 251
Lecce, 15
Left Opposition, 322
Leibniz, G. W., 118
Lenin, V. I., 10, 81, 318, 321, 326–7, 333–40; embalming of, 93; mausoleum of, occupation of, 347; State and Revolution, 320, 322
Levitan, Isaac, Vladimirka, 120–1, 154
Lhasa, 42
Lianosovo Group, 2
Lifshitz, Mikhail, 127, 149, 151, 153, 155
Lissitsky, El, 8; “Lenin on the Tribunal”, 40
literocentricity, 205
Lobnoye mesto, 341
Lotman, Yuri, Culture and Explosion, 264
Luddism, 418
Lukács, György, 327; “Bolshevism as a Moral Problem”, 318–21; Soul and Form, 195
Lunacharsky, Anatoly, 328
Luxemburg, Rosa, 317
McDougall, William, 217
Machinsky, Volodya, 289
Magritte, René, 192
Magun, Artemy, 4
Maitre, Joseph de, 324
Makarevich, Igor, 250
making love politically, 381
Malevich, Kazimir, 56, 116, 118, 185, 233–5, 239, 247; “Suprematism”, 40
Mamonov, Bogdan, 127; “A Binary System”, 259–65
Mamonov, Kirill, 263
manifestos, writing of, 372
Manipulator: a shifting of values, 1, 2, 288–93; Event No. 3, 294–5; Event No. 4, 295–300 Marinetti, F. T., 236
Marx, Karl, 10, 147, 149, 211, 212, 213, 235, 238, 336, 359, 423; Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts, 410
Marxism, 5, 13, 56, 121, 141, 149, 187, 316, 317, 319, 320, 321, 329, 401; liberation of, 317
materialism, 212, 399–412; democratic, 401
Mavromatti, Oleg, “Don’t Believe Your Eyes”, 347
McLuhan, Marshall, 57
Medvedkin, Alexander, 197
Meerson, Olga, 222
megalopolis, 464
Meillassoux, Quentin, 400, 402, 405
Melamid, Alexander, 116, 117, 122
melancholy, 219
messianism, 181
metanoia, 31
Meyerhold, Vsevolod, 28
Michelet, Jules, History of the French Revolution, 211–12
Michurin, Ivan, 81
microcosm and macrocosm, 428
migrants: payment of, 360–1; project working with, 353–70; use of term, 359
Milestone, Jack, 220
Milhaud, Darius, The Bull on the Roof, 69, 70
Misiano, Viktor, xii, 4, 134, 260
modernism, 124, 419, 426, 427, 428
Molière (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin), 120
Monad, 118
Monastyrsky, Andrey, xi, 4, 202, 250, 251; “Dictionary of Terms of Moscow Conceptualism”, 252, 255–7
Monroe, Vlad, 114
Montaigne, Michel de, xiv
Moravec’s paradox, 414
Morton, Timothy, 400
Moscow, invisibility of, ix
Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, 115
Moscow conceptualism, x, xi, 2, 3, 8, 10, 112, 113, 114, 117, 118, 119, 121, 122, 123, 124, 191–208, 252; archive of, 12, 245; essence of, 117–20; formation of, 115
museums, 62, 426; destruction of, 68; function of, 58–9; of art, 188 (transformation of, 118); post-revolutionary Soviet, 430; staff of, experience of artworks, 58; study of, 204–5; system of, ambivalence of, 68
Nabokov, Vladimir, 113
narrative, abandonment of, 426
nature: encounter with, 461; taming of, 463 see also philosophy, of nature
Negarestani, Reza, Cyclonopedia, 407–9
negativity, 218, 219, 221; in communism, 226–8
Negri, Antonio, 214
Nekrasov, Vsevolod, 256
Nemukhin, Vladimir, 249
newcomers, 368; use of term, 359
Newton, Isaac, xi
Nietzsche, Friedrich, Birth of Tragedy, 66
Nikolaev, Leonid, Fuckhead Lyonya Runs on the Feds’ Roof, 347–8
Nomadic Theater of the Communist, 25–32
non-identity, desire for, 67
Nosov, Nikolay, 69, 73, 81, 83
Novozhenova, Sasha, 346
October Revolution see Russian Revolution
oikos, 403
oil: as the black corpse of the sun, 410; as the blood of earth, 408; as the lifeblood of war, 407–9; materialist history of, 399–412
organs of the body, improvement of, 423–4
Orlov, Boris, 251
Osborne, Peter, 193
Osminkin, Roman, 363
Osmolovsky, Anatoly, 10, 114, 127–55; The Journey of Netseziudik to the Land of the Brobdingnagians, xi, 348
Otsovsky, Otto, 478
ownerless property, 224
Pastor journal, 252
Paul, Saint, 79
Pavlensky, Pyotr, 341–2, 350; action events of, 344–6; Fixation, 346; Freedom, 344; Threat, 344
Pelevin, Viktor, 399
Pepperstein, Pavel, 4; “The Skyscraper-Cleaner Pine Marten”, 16–17, 467–87
perestroika, x, 114, 115, 210, 217, 253
Pershina-Yakimanskaya, Natalia (Gluklya), “The Utopian Union of the Unemployed”, 4, 353–71 philosophy, 6, 7, 401; of angels, 112–4; of nature, 399–400, 401–2
Pilnyak, Boris, 197
Pivovarov, Victor, “Projects for a Lonely Man”, 199
PIZDA group, 84
Platonov, Andrey, 197–8, 221–3, 403
Plavinsky, Dmitry, 249
Pobyl, Nikolai Lvovich, 296
poet, more than a poet, 123
poetry, 29; limitations of, 26; role of, 176
politicization of art, 381
politics, 311; aestheticization of, 123; ethics of, 13
Pollock, Jackson, drip art of, 428–9
Pop Art, 122
postmodernism, 249
Prigov, Dmitry A., xi, 3, 10, 251; Manifestos, 171–89
private property, 219
progress, notion of, 397
Proletkult, 204
Prometheus, 75
prostitutes, 345
public property, 224
public sphere, disrespect for, 210
Puni, Ivan, 40
Pushkin, Alexander, 152
Radek group, 10
Rancière, Jacques, 227, 343, 350
Rauschenberg, Robert, 1938
rayonism, 238
re-familiarization, 222
realism, 127
repentance, moral, 315
representation, 234
resistance, ethics of, 14
resurrection of the dead, 423
return of the repressed, 404
revolution, possibility of, 403
robographies, 421
Rodchenko, Alexander, 425; “Linearism”, 40
Roginsky, Mikhail, 249
ROSTA Windows, 197
Rothko, Mark, 153
Rozanova, Olga, 40
Russia, historical, 323, 325–9
Russian Revolution, x, 14, 40, 84, 123, 200, 223, 316–23; caused by the sun, 91–103; centenary of, 1, 313–14; negative aspect of, 323; viewed through storytelling, 197
sacrality of the profane, 210, 225
sacralization, 58; second, 179–80
sacro-cularization, second, 179–89
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 60
Schelling, F. W. J., 404
Schiller, Friedrich, 211
Schmitt, Karl, 326
schools, closing of, 375
Schopenhauer, Arthur, The World as Will and Representation, 234
secret, knowledge of, 63
self-criticism, 223
self-driving automobile, 413, 415
Semenev, Julian, Seventeen Moments of Spring, 407
senile idealism, 407
sense of humor, 475
Shalamov, Varlam, 322
Sharshun, Serge, 238
sincerity, enemy of artist, 56
skaz narrative form, 196–7; in Moscow conceptualism, 198
Skersis, Victor, 250
Sky, 255
socialism, 79, 225, 249, 318, 319; really existing, 216
Socialist International, 317
solidarity, 214
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, 322
sovereign self-identification, 67
spectator, on the internet, 64
Sretensky Boulevard, 2
Stakhanov, Alexey, 82
Stalin, Joseph, 80, 93, 217, 321, 329, 338
Starry Night Sky, 257
state, 319–20; ethical, 321; withering away of, 320
storyteller, figure of, disappearance of, 203
storytelling, 11, 191–208 passim; history of, 196
subjectivity, as technical construction, 63
subjugation, to the dominant class, 374
Suetonius Tranquillus, Gaius, The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, 264–5
Sumnina, Masha, 289
survival, intellectual, 9, 124
Swift, Jonathan, xi
Taoism, 80
Tarde, Gabriel, 217
Tarkovsky, Andrey, The Stalker, 221
Tatlin, Vladimir, 118, 185, 233; “Tower”, 40, 41
Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre, xiii
temporality, construction of, 23
Ter-Oganyan, Avdei, Young Atheist, 347
Thacker, Eugene, In the Dust of This Planet, 401, 401
The Worker and the Collective Farm Woman statue, 75
theater, 25–32; public nature of, 28
Theater for Migrants, 353
Thermidor, 328
throne, creation of, 42
time: artistic, 30; directionality of, 426
Tocqueville, Alexis de, 324, 325
Toscano, Alberto, 405
Total Installation, concept of, 122
totalitarianism, 216, 218, 221, 224, 329
transcendent principle of unity, 213
transhumanism movement, 423
triangulation points, 296
“Trips to the Countryside”, 202
Trotsky, Leon, 93
Tsaplya, Olga Egorova, 363
Tsiolkovsky, Konstantin, 7, 81, 423
two, concept of, 263
Ukraine, 191, 333–40 passim; Maidan protests, 14
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), 11, 23, 78–9, 83, 112–13, 120, 124, 181, 201, 203, 204, 209–30, 323; collapse of, 109
universality, 379
Utopian Union of the Unemployed, 353–70
Vanderlinden, Barbara, 265
VDNKh park, 8, 69–89; as mandala of government, 71–2, 80; Exhibition of Achievements of the National Economy, 70
Venkov, Dmitry, “Krisis”, 14, 333–40
Vertov, Dziga, ‘Kino-Eye’, 197–8
video recording of exhibitions, 253
Vidokle, Anton, xii; “The Communist Revolution Was Caused by the Sun”, 91–103; This is the Cosmos, 9
viewing of films, utility of, 378–9
Vilensky, Dmitry, xiii, 4, 127, 149
Vinogradov, Alexander, 114
violence, divine, 320
Virno, Paolo, 213, 214, 216, 222, 224
Voina group, 347, 350; Prick Captured by FSB, 349; with Bombily, Feast (A Wake for Prigov), 349
Volkov, Vadim, Violent Entrepreneurs, 342
War Communism, 82
Warhol, Andy, 116
Water Management pavilion at VNDKh, 73–4
Weber, Max, 319
Weisberg, Vladimir, 249
Whitehead, Alfred North, 400
working with institutions, 373–4
world, meaning of, 401
world art, 379
writing about art, 2
Young, George M., The Russian Cosmists, 6
Zakharov, Vadim, 250; “An Exchange of Information with the Sun”, 249; “Author, Cosmos, Archive”, 11, 247–58; “Postscriptum after RIP”, 253; “The Author – Monument to Utopia”, 254; “The Park, the Archive et al”, 252
Zdanievich, Ilya, 237
Zhdanov, Ivan, 177
Zhilyaev, Arseny, 4, 11, 204–5
Zhitlina, Olya, 363
Zinoviev, Alexander, 216, 225; “Communism as a Reality”, 216–17
Zombie formalism, 420
Zupancic, Alenka, 404