Item Archive: tromsø kunstforening
All items pertaining to tromsø kunstforening
Khaled Jarrar
Works: For BACK TO (THE) SQUARE 1: Hunger Wall (performative action and installation of Finnish round bread and wood), Sea Level (video), Diver in Ramallah, (Photo-print on foil under plexiglass), Concrete (video), Football (sculpture). See installation views. For TO THE SQUARE … Continue reading
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Tagged #TSQ2, activism, artist, Back To (The) Square 1, Checkpoint Helsinki, film, MENA, Palestine, perpetuum mobile, re-aligned, tromsø kunstforening
Translit
was founded in 2005, and is a literary-critical anthology, publishing outfit and community of poets, philosophers and humanities scholars, who bring forward various fields of confrontation in contemporary literary theory and the literary process.
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Tagged artist, perpetuum mobile, re-aligned, tromsø kunstforening
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
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Denis Limonov
is a Belarusian artist and activist of the Mogilev-based Lime Blossom group. “Drawing public attention to the problem of constitutional fascism in the republic,” he notoriously claimed responsibility for a terrorist act in Minsk, in an attempt to disrupt the … Continue reading
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Tagged activism, activist, artist, Lime Blossom group, perpetuum mobile, re-aligned, tromsø kunstforening
Voina
is widely known for its provocative, politically-charged actions; most famously, perhaps, the monumental phallus they painted on a drawbridge in St. Petersburg which rose to stand erect facing the F.S.B. (KGB) headquarters. ////////////////////////////////////////////// Voina (Russian: Война = War) is a … Continue reading
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Viktoria Lomasko
Victoria Lomasko is probably most famous in the West for her drawings from the frontlines of the Pussy Riot trial. Starting with fraudulent Duma elections on December 4, 2011, and until November 2012, she kept a graphic “chronicle of resistance” … Continue reading
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Tagged activism, graphic, illustrator, perpetuum mobile, pussy riot, re-aligned, russian, tromsø kunstforening
Anatoly Osmolovsky
has been a figure of reference in the Russian art world since the early 1990s, co-founding and leading several groupings, including Radek Magazine (1995), which sought a space for intellectual resistance and anarchist tactics. Currently, he runs the BAZA Institute. … Continue reading
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MediaImpact
is a platform of activist art which has, since 2011, organised the first festivals of their kind in Russia. Coordinated by Tatiana Volkova of Zhir Gallery, it has developed exhibitions, international cooperation, and the discourse and practice of activist art … Continue reading
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Tagged activist, festival, media impact, perpetuum mobile, platform, re-aligned, tromsø kunstforening
Marina Naprushkina
is a Belarusian artist and activist in opposition to the regime of Alexander Lukaschenko. Her Office for Anti-Propaganda (founded 2007), continuously invents new strategies and tactics for countering the oppression of freedom of thought and action in Belarus today. //////////////////////////////// … Continue reading
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Kirill Medvedev
is an internationally renowned Russian poet, translator and socialist from Moscow. An English anthology, “It’s No Good” was published by Ugly Duckling Presse in 2012. Medvedev is the founder of the Free Marxist Press and the riot-punk-folk band Arkady Kots. … Continue reading
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Tagged artist, perpetuum mobile, poet, re-aligned, russian, socialist, tromsø kunstforening
