3 documents
Sarah Wilson
Sarah Wilson
Other dimensions, other timescales, other forms of life—not only as works, but as a basic condition for being able to perceive artworks in the first place.
e-flux Books
Posted: May 1, 2012
Category
Communism, Labor & Work, Marxism
Subjects
Conceptual & Post-Conceptual Art, Russia, Soviet Union, Post-Communism, Art Collectives, Appropriation Art
e-flux Announcement
Posted: November 16, 2011
Institution
# 29
Moscow Romantic Exceptionalism: The Suspension of Disbelief
Sarah Wilson
I do not complain about anything and everything pleases me despite the fact that I have never been here before and know nothing about these parts.
—Collective Actions slogan, January 26, 1977, Leningradskaia railroad, Frinsaovka station 1
In 2005–6, I experienced a coup de foudre —a lightning blast of admiration—when I discovered Collective Actions and their performances in the snow. Later I attended Boris Groys’s talk at his Total Enlightenment exhibition in...
e-flux Journal
Posted: November 1, 2011
Subjects
Russia, Conceptual & Post-Conceptual Art, Everyday Life, Poetry, Art Criticism, Cold War