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Geographic Origins: Sverdlovsk
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The “Kartinnik”/”Picture-man” society at the Dam boardwalk in Sverdlovsk, 1989
A photograph of a group of youths doing a Punk-Skomorokh performance at a public boardwalk. B.U. Kashkin's "Kartinnik" circle creates a wave of notorious but positive and cheerful actionism.
3pm on Sundays at the Dam, the jesters [skomorokhi] will gift society pictures!, 1989 Tempera on Wood panel.
B.U. Kashkin's circle created outsider art in various media, but especially painting, distributing it to the public during their Punk-Skomorokh perfromances. B.U. Kashkin encouraged amateur artists to experiment with public art.
The Collective Society “Kartinnik”[”Picture-man”] with B.U.Kashkin in front of painted Ural Electro-Technical Institute rubbish pins. 1993.
The bearded B.U.Kashkin stands in front of a set of trashbins which have been painted with bright, colorful scenes of trees, butterflies and flowers. Pigeons are digging through the garbage and mud apparent throughout the site.
Tusovka Music Journal (Samizdat)
A central zine of the Siberian underground music community. One of Tusovka's central feats was duping the KGB into allowing the continuation of its publication and dissemination. Before the first issue went to print, the journal's founder Valerii Murzin took the bold step of delivering the pre-print manuscript of the journal to his local KGB office, in this way guaranteeing the publication's survival.
Cover for “Red Hogwash” [“Krasnaia Burda”], issue 1, October 1990 by G. Malyshev.
The first issue of Red Hogwash's cover depicts a man in the costume of the Statue of Liberty lighting a cigarette with the torch.