NON-ALIGNED / RE-ALIGNED Lost Notes from the Underground ...and into the fire. Curated by Ivor Stodolsky and Marita Muukkonen

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 *NON-ALIGNED*
Lost Notes from the Underground

*RE-ALIGNED*
...and into the fire


*Curated by Ivor Stodolsky and Marita Muukkonen*

*Vernissage April 27th at 17.00, another vacant space, Berlin*

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*NON-ALIGNED
Lost Notes from the Underground*


Locked in a wardrobe behind the artist Vladimir Semenov’s kitchen table for
nearly twenty years, *The Archive of Leningrad Conceptual Art** *was
discovered by Ivor Stodolsky and Marita Muukkonen during curatorial
research for the retrospective survey exhibition *The Raw, The Cooked and
The Packaged – The Archive of Perestroika Art** *at the Museum of
Contemporary Art, Kiasma, 2007-2008.*
*

*another vacant space.** *is a warranted way-station for these lost notes
from the Russian underground.*
*

*Leningrad Conceptualism*,* *unlike its famous and distant Moscow relation,
was virtually unknown at the height of its activity. The *Archive*’s
documentary evidence is like a report *from the scene of the crime*.
Composed on crisp rice-paper, meticulously collected in numbered,
Soviet-order folders, are the precise typewritten instructions for
performances carried out in near anonymity by the group “Seminar” between
1986 and 1988. These exacting descriptions are accompanied by photographs,
textual and graphic relics and traces. It is a unique work of Soviet
bureaucraticism: all that survived of this ephemeral group of “non-aligned”
marginals, save a few precious minutes of crumbling 8mm films, screened
here at *another vacant space* for the first time.


 *RE-ALIGNED
*..and into the fire.


The voice of the youngest generation of Russian non-conformist artists
stands its ground in dialogue with both illustrious and newly discovered
predecessors. In the large-format photographs which document the street art
work *eternal flame*, T-Radya, 23, paints with Molotov cocktails. His
subject is memory. "The memory of victory erases the memory of the
terrifying beginning of war (WWII).
How did they fight – everyone fought – their faces to the fire. And how did
they ever first let the war happen? Now it's repeating." This surprisingly
versatile artist’s work is here exhibited outside Russia for the first
time, a pre-launch of the forthcoming thematic exhibition project A
RE-ALIGNED ART. This project commences at the Tromsø Kunstforening, Norway,
in Autumn 2013. The work’s clear historical stance, its striking
aesthetics, its arresting methods, all speak of a newly “re-aligned” art in
our era.

Updated information on the RE-ALIGNED ART project will appear on
www.PerpetualMobile.org and https://www.facebook.com/PerpetualMobile.org.


 *PIRATE TV*

For a little comic relief, bridging the era of the non-aligned and the
re-aligned, lies the madness of 1990s post-modernism. This will be
represented at the opening of NON-ALIGNED / RE-ALIGNED, by a screening of
Yuris Lesnik, Vladislav Mamyshev “Monroe” and Timur Novikov’s unbearably
amusing Pirate TV. Reporting from the Leningrad-St. Petersburg art scene at
the height of the USSR’s catastrophic collapse, this mock television news
show, which legend says hijacked the public airwaves, had the Soviet
Union’s first public transvestite, Vladik “Monroe”, as its anchor
news-woman..


 *About the Curators*

*Ivor Stodolsky* and *Marita Muukkonen* are the co-founders of *PERPETUUM
MOBILE*, a curatorial vehicle and means of mobilization. They describe it
as a “conduit and engine to bring together art, practice and inquiry”. The
current international RE-ALIGNED project brings their work on Russian
non-conformist art at Kiasma into the present, and is projected to broaden
its scope at further exhibition venues. Further ongoing processes, among
others, are the *Perpetual Gypsy Pavilion* (Venice 2009) and *The Arts
Assembly* (Manifesta 8). Ivor Stodolsky is a curator, writer and editor,
whose theoretical practice is a background to much of *Perpetuum Mobile*’s
investigations. Marita Muukkonen is a curator, known internationally for
her work at NIFCA, FRAME and FRAMEWORK and HIAP TALKS.

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*(more below..)*
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