June 3, 7:30 PM
Admission is free of charge, lecture is delivered in Russian. Attendees must register in advance (link in Russian).
Garage Museum of Contemporary Art lectures
The art of the present. Practical artistic strategy and practice
A new programme of public lectures focusing on the study of practical artistic strategies aimed at broadening art’s horizons and achieving a qualitative transformation in surrounding reality. The lectures will be divided into a series of blocks covering the most popular practices in the field of art, including the archiving and institutionalization of art, participation-art and DIY projects.
The invited experts will share their observations and experience in adopting strategies for projects of various sizes. Attention will centre on self-organized festivals and institutions, various types of art-activism, along with the art of new technologies, street-art and new approaches to working with meaning and viewer-perception.
The first block of lectures is devoted to various forms of artistic activity — independent curator-strategies, art-activism and DIY projects, drawing on examples from Russian activist art, grass-roots initiatives in public art projects, creative self-organised groups and ways of institutionalizing street-art. Several of the lectures will touch on themes relating to the art of the future, including projects from the science & art series and artistic practices that open up new possibilities in the perception of art. The cycle will conclude with a series of meetings studying projects by the School of Engaged Art (St Petersburg) focusing on post-Soviet research.
