Item Archive: re-aligned
All items pertaining to re-aligned
Ekaterina Samutsevich (Pussy Riot)
Ekaterina Samutsevic had experience at the Moscow Power Engineering Institute and a defense enterprise behind her, when she decided to study art. Joining the actionist current in autumn 2011, she was a core co-founder of Pussy Riot. Of the three … Continue reading
SOSka Group
was founded by Mykola Ridnyi, Serhiy Popov and Ganna Kriventsova in 2005, and has pushed the boundaries of curatorial and artistic practice of what is considered acceptable in the Ukrainian context. ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// SOSka group was found in 2005 by Mykola … Continue reading
Timofey Radya
creates at times small-scale, at times monumental street art works. These urban interventions, which started in his native Ekaterinburg, range from “improvements in the hood” to highly critical works. His motto is “anyone who makes street art is a friend … Continue reading
Nikolay Oleynikov
Works: For TO THE SQUARE 2 (Checkpoint Helsinki, 2014): Radio Pravda For RE-ALIGNED ART from Russia, Ukraine and Belarus (Tromso Kunstforening, Norway): VillmarksLiv (a brief comment on 22 July, media-memory, visual neoconservatism and the oil-welfare-state) For RE-PUBLIC: A Comment on … Continue reading
Pyotr Pavlensky
Works in the Re-Aligned Project: Carcass See also the brief excerpt from an extensive interview (the first video, below) with Ivor Stodolsky, Curator of the Re-Aligned Project, on the streets of St. Petersburg in 2013. Pyotr Pavlensky’s public art actions … Continue reading
Monobrow
is from Ekaterinburg, now based in Moscow, has developed a technique of portraiture and writing with growing grass. ////////////////////// Sergey Kleschev, Monobrow, Just Monobrow was born on March 1, 1987 in the city of Sverdlovsk. He grew up in the … Continue reading
Matvei Krylov
is an actionist artist and political activist, whose political acts have earned him time at Buturskaya Prison and the Alternative Prize of Activist Art. He is the current organizer of the dissident tradition of “Mayakovsky Readings” in Moscow. //////////// Matvei … Continue reading
Svetlana Baskova
works in art, video and film since the early 1990s, and is currently the director of the BAZA publishing house (Moscow) and the Institute for Contemporary Art and Criticism. This film was showcased to acclaim at the Berlinale in 2013. … Continue reading
Alexey Iorsh
is one of Russia’s first BD artists. A socially-oriented artist and cartoonist, and author of graphic novels, he publishes regularly online and in periodicals. An artist in the Helsinki iteration of Re-Aligned, he is also an active member of Media … Continue reading
Pedagogical Poem (Ilya Budraitskis and Arseny Zhilyaev)
is an interdisciplinary project based on research at the intersection of the history, contemporary art and pedagogy. Over 100 events were organised at the Presnya Historical Memorial Museum in Moscow in 2012 alone. /////////////////////////////// The project «Pedagogical Poem» conceived by … Continue reading