The Post-Soviet Public Sphere

Multimedia Sourcebook of the Russian 1990s

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Geographic Origins: Yekaterinburg

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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.

Mikhail Kuchin’s gravestone

Photograph of Mikhail Kuchin's funerary portrait with mercedes keys, gravestone, 1994. Shirokorechenskoy Cemetery.

Alexander Shaburov's "Monument to an Invisible Man", 1999

A monument pedestal with no statue, two uneven footprints are imprinted on the pedestal.

Shaburov Sasha Christ

Alexander Shaburov developed a series of performances about artistic identity, which included both mocking and pastiching the cult leader Marina Tsvigun (AKA "Maria Devi Christ" ) whose group attempted to seize the Saint Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv in 1993.

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.

Ivan Zhaba: Russian Superman

A major installation artwork by Alexander Shaburov engaged with the Western Superhero genre through a multimedia hagiography of a Russian superman.

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