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"Performance Art: Ethics in Action"
First international conference at Garage
12-14 December 2013

Garage Center for Contemporary Culture
Gorky Park, 9 Krymsky Val
119049 Moscow
Russia

T +7 495 645 05 20

<http://interspire.e-flux.com/link.php?M=116335&N=57&L=260&F=H>www.garageccc.com

"I cannot imagine talking about ethics without
discussing two particular things: one, authority,
and the second, belief."
-N?stio Mosquito

"If performance art becomes commonplace in a
society over time, it will be impossible for it
to stir an ethical or political reaction."
-Anatoly Osmolovsky

This December is the centenary of the seminal
Cubo-Futurist performance Victory Over the Sun
created by Kazimir Malevich, Alexei Kruchenych,
and Mikhail Matyushin, which premiered in St.
Petersburg in 1913. The performance caused quite
a stir, since it broke with tradition in a number
of ways, from the unconventional subject matter
celebrating man's technological potential and
innovative anti-realist costumes in shocking
colors, to the chaotic music and nonsensical
lyrics. Today, this ground-breaking piece can be
considered the first avant-garde performance in
Russia.

In the century that has followed, artists have
continuously defied and challenged not only
pre-established artistic traditions, but also
social and moral conventions. By pushing the
boundaries time after time, often creating
situations where art and life converge, they pose
questions that go beyond aesthetics, introducing
an ethical dimension to the artistic experience.

To mark the centenary of performance art in
Russia and to explore the complex relationship
between ethics and aesthetics in the development
of performance today, Garage presents its first
international conference, "Performance Art:
Ethics in Action." The conference is also the
first on this topic in Russia.

Tracing the evolution of Russian performance art
in relation to parallel developments around the
world, the conference focuses on the radical
experiments from the early 20th century
avant-garde to the present day that have brought
art beyond aesthetics into real-world situations.
The two days are divided into thematic sessions,
including a session on the Russian experience and
a session introducing international parallels or
divergences.

The conference opens with a public lecture and
book launch by RoseLee Goldberg, founding
Director of Performa, New York, followed by two
days of case studies, panel discussions, and
lectures, including a keynote paper by Simon
Critchley, Hans Jonas Professor at The New School
for Social Research in New York, and
contributions from leading artists, academics,
writers, and curators from across Russia, Eastern
Europe, Asia, Africa, Latin and North America. A
special performance for Garage by performance
artist, musician, and poet N?stio Mosquito will
take place at the end of the first day, followed
by a program of live performances in partnership
with the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center in
Moscow.

Speakers:
Yulia Aksenova, Curator, Garage, Moscow; Ludmila
Bredihina, curator and critic, Moscow; Simon
Critchley, Hans Jonas Professor, The New School
for Social Research, New York; Ekaterina
Degot,curator and critic, Moscow; Song Dong,
artist, Beijing; Lina ?uverovi?, Curator and
co-Founder of Electra, London and Zagreb; RoseLee
Goldberg, curator and founding Director of
Performa, New York; Ana Janevski, Associate
Curator, Department of Media and Performance,
Museum of Modern Art, New York; Jurij Krpan,
Curator, Kapelica Gallery, Ljubljana; Laura Lima,
artist, Rio de Janeiro; Magda Lipska, Curator,
Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw; Victor
Misiano, Curator and Editor-in-Chief, Moscow Art
Magazine, Moscow; N?stio Mosquito, artist,
Luanda; Sasha Obukhova, art historian and Head of
Research Department, Garage, Moscow; Anatoly
Osmolovsky, artist, Moscow; Tanja Ostojic,
artist, Berlin; Elena Petrovskaya, philosopher
and writer, Moscow; Spas Shuripa, artist and
teacher, Moscow; Maria Tsantsanoglu, Director,
State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki


Advance booking required.
For further information, please contact
<mailto:brittany at garageccc.com>brittany at garageccc.com.


About Garage
Garage Center for Contemporary Culture is an
independent platform for new thinking in Moscow.
Through an extensive program of exhibitions,
events, research, education, and publishing,
Garage reflects on current developments in
Russian and international culture, creating
opportunities for public dialogue and the
production of new work and ideas.

Garage Center for Contemporary Culture is a
non-profit project of The IRIS Foundation.


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