Fwd: Forthcoming conference: Utopia III (The Courtauld Institute of Art, 22-23 Feb)

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> From: "Cambridge Courtauld Russian Art Centre (CCRAC)" <[email protected]>
> Date: February 4, 2013, 9:17:36 AM EST
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Forthcoming conference: Utopia III (The Courtauld Institute of Art, 22-23 Feb)
> 
> Dear all, 
> 
> The next CCRAC conference, Utopia III: Contemporary Russian Art 
> and the Ruins of Utopia, is taking place at The Courtauld Institute of Art 
> on 22 - 23 February 2013. For more information about the conference 
> and how to book a ticket, please scroll down or see the poster attached.
> 
> Utopia III is the third in a series of major conferences devoted to the
> theme of utopia in 20th and 21st century Russian culture organised by
> CCRAC (The Cambridge Courtauld Russian Art Centre).
> 
> Utopia III: Contemporary Russian Art and the Ruins of Utopia explores
> the afterlife of utopian thought in Russian art since the
> disintegration of the Soviet Union in the years 1989-91. The
> splintering of the vision of a collective Soviet utopia and the rise of
> individual utopias undoubtedly predated perestroika. During the
> Brezhnev years of stagnation, unofficial artists deployed a range of
> strategies to analyse the failure of the project of constructing
> Socialist society. If, for some, the collapse of the Soviet Union and
> entry into the free-market appeared to be a gateway to Western-style
> utopia, rapid socio-economic change left others out in the cold. Groups
> of Russian artists working since the 1990s have continued to explore
> collective organisation as a mode of political engagement, from Chto
> Delat', to Voina, to those artists involved in the current protests
> against Putin's government. As artists today wrestle with new forms of
> social and cultural decay, and as critics negotiate new forms of
> nostalgia, what, if anything, remains be salvaged from among the ruins
> of the Soviet utopia?
> 
> Bringing together artists, art historians, curators and cultural
> theorists to discuss recent transformations in the Russian cultural
> landscape, Utopia III addresses the following questions: How has Soviet
> avant-garde art been historicised, re-contextualised, and re-mobilized
> in recent years? Is the intersection of art and activism necessarily
> utopian? In what ways has the arrival of Capitalist utopia transformed
> the landscape of the contemporary Russian art world?
> 
> Ticket/entry details: £31 (£21 students, Courtauld staff/students and
> concessions) 
> BOOK ONLINE: http://courtauld-institute.digitalmuseum.co.uk Or send a
> cheque made payable to ‘Courtauld Institute of Art' to: Research Forum
> Events Co-ordinator, Research Forum, The Courtauld Institute of Art,
> Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 0RN, stating the event title
> ‘Utopia III'. For further information, email [email protected]
> 
> Organised by Dr Klara Kemp-Welch and Elizaveta Butakova (The Courtauld
> Institute of Art)
> 
> PROGRAMME 
> Friday 22 February (DAY 1) 
> Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 0RN
> 
> 13.15 – 13.45  Registration
> 13.45 – 13.55  Welcome and Introduction
> 
> 13.55 – 15.45  SESSION 1: Afterlives of The Avant-Garde – Chair: Maria Mileeva (The Courtauld Institute of Art)
> John Milner (The Courtauld Institute of Art): Utopia and Reality: Lissitzky and Kabakov
> Jane Ashton Sharp (Rutgers, State University of New Jersey): Performing 'Paradise' and 'Readymade' Reliquaries: Subjects in History after the Thaw
> Elizaveta Butakova (The Courtauld Institute of Art): Colour, Form, Space – the Soviet Neo-avant-garde and the Aesthetics of Utopia
>   
> 15.45 – 16.15  COFFEE/TEA BREAK (Tea/coffee provided in Seminar room 1)
> 
> 16.15 – 18.45  SESSION 2: Dmitri Prigov’s New Sincerity – Chair: tbc
> Olesya Turkina (State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg): Prigov According to Malevich
> Helen Petrovsky (RAN Institute of Philosophy, Moscow): Art of the Passing Moment: The Anti-Projective Nature of Prigov's Utopia
> Dimitri Ozerkov (State Hermitage, St. Petersburg): title tbc
> Screening of Prigov Films and discussion
> 
> 18.45 – 19.45  Keynote Lecture – Mikhail Epstein (Emory University / Durham University): The Philosophical Underpinnings of Russian Conceptualism
> 
>  19.45  RECEPTION
>  
> Saturday 23 February (DAY 2) 
> Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 0RN
> 
> 09.30 – 10.00  Registration
> 
> 10.00 – 12.00  SESSION 3: Moscow Conceptualism – Chair: Anthony Gardner (Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford)
> Margarita Tupitsyn (New York and Paris): Dangerous Luncheon or Moscow Rural Conceptualism
> Yelena Kalinsky (Rutgers, State University of New Jersey): Moscow Conceptualism's Self- Institutionalization
> Elena Kuprina-Lyakhovich and Alexandra Danilova (Moscow): MANI: Modelling Cultural Space
> 
> 12.00 – 13.00  Screening – USSR ART, Barbara Herbich, 1990 (55’)
> 
> 13.00 – 14.00  BREAK FOR LUNCH (lunch not provided except for the speakers and chairs)
> 
> 14.00 – 17.00  SESSION 4: Change From Above / Change From Below – Chair: Klara Kemp-Welch (The Courtauld Institute of Art)
> Screening – Chto Delat?: Perestroika-Songspiel. The Victory over the Coup, 2008 (26’23”) 
> Tony Kemp-Welch (University of East Anglia): The Glasnost' Utopia: Gorbachev's Visions
> Sasha Obukhova (Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow): The Future is Now: Moscow Actionism
> Nadim Samman (Berlin): Is Punk Rock the Crime? Pussy Riot and Putin’s Church
> Dmitri Vilensky (Chto Delat?, St. Petersurg): Practising Communism Today
> 
> 17.00 – 17.30  COFFEE/TEA BREAK (Tea/coffee provided in Seminar room 1)
> 
> 17.30 – 19.45  SESSION 5: On the Ruins of Utopia – Chair: Sarah Wilson (The Courtauld Institute of Art)
> Stanislav Shuripa (Moscow): Aesthetics of Cognitive Ruins: Between the Utopian Impulse and Form
> Katarína Lichvárová (The Courtauld Institute of Art): With Victory over the Past Towards a Brighter Future? Pavel Pepperstein’s Vision of Russia
> Aliya Abykayeva-Tiesenhausen (London): Excavations of Soviet peripheries - Russian art and Central Asia
> Victor Tupitsyn (London and Paris): (Pro)creators, (Pro)curators 
> 
> 19.45  RECEPTION 
> 
> 
> With kind wishes, 
> 
> ---
> Dr Maria Mileeva 
> CCRAC Administrator / Early Career Lecturer 
> The Courtauld Institute of Art 
> Somerset House 
> Strand 
> London WC2R 0RN 
>  
> Email: [email protected]
> 
> Visit CCRAC website: www.ccrac.org.uk
> 
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