Discussion “Surrealism as a community”

The discussion is devoted to various forms of collectivity in the artistic environment. The desire of artists to unite and form groups, communities, and partnerships, which emerged at the beginning of the twentieth century, was enshrined in the practices of the surrealists as an integral component of the artistic process. Do artists in Russia today have a need to “be together”? Are such communities held together by manifestos and programmatic texts, or are they built on other principles? What ensures the sustainability of these social structures?

 

Moderator:
Alexey Maslyaev, curator of the Cosmoscow Foundation

Participants:
Evgenia Bonevert, Random magazine
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Anzor Kankulov, editor-in-chief of Black Square magazine, head of the Fashion department at the HSE School of Design
Olga Vad (Head of the Art & Science master's program at ITMO University)