Floating Institutionality and Para-Institutions in Contemporary Russian Art: Premises and Forms
Abstract
The article examines artistic practices in Russia and the Soviet Union that, according to the author, are somehow connected to the international movement of institutional critique; the notion of "floating institutionality" is proposed to denote the special nature of the existence of the phenomenon of "institution" in the designated periods and the corresponding local contexts. The question of the connection between early Soviet avant-garde museum projects and unofficial Soviet art of the second half of the twentieth century is raised. Much attention is paid to the question of defining institutional critique with an eye to modern time and the Russian experience.
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