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Svetlana Baskova captures the surreal, deeply violent, and grotesque essence of the 1990s and the Chechen wars in her cult trash movie, Zelenyi slonik (The little green elephant, 1999).
An excerpt from Svetlana Baskova’s film Zelenyi slonik (The little green elephant, 1999).
Auktsyon’s performance at the 8th Leningrad Rock Club Festival
Live performance of the rock band Auktsyon at the Leningrad Rock Club. As an art-jazz-rock collective, Auktsyon was a genre-blending musical and performance phenomenon within the Leningrad underground, which distinguished itself from other bands with both its longevity and stylistic variation, gradually increasing antiestablishment content in its music throughout the post-Soviet period, while maintaining a layer of ideological ambiguity.
Kino’s last concert (Luzhniki Stadium, Moscow)
Footage of a live Kino concert at Moscow's Luzhniki Stadium on June 24, 1990, roughly a month and half prior to frontman Viktor Tsoi's death in a car accident in rural Latvia. The footage shows the band at the very height of its popularity, as well as offering an unencumbered look at a country in transition: a heavy and conspicuous Soviet police detail is assigned to the event, while audience members wave both the Soviet flag and the Russian tricolor banner.
Expropriation of the Territory of Art, E.T.A--text, 1991
Image of the actionist group E.T.A. forming an obscene word out of their bodies in front of the Kremlin
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.