Cosmic Shift : Russian Contemporary Art Writing (Paperback)

Foreword - Bart De Baere Acknowledgments - Elena Zaytseva and Alex Anikina Introduction - Elena Zaytseva Part One - Past futures 1.The nomadic theater of the communist - Keti Chukhrov 2.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 Vidokle Part Two - Inherited aesthetics 6.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 archive 13. 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, today 18.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 futures 24.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