Moscow City Government Moscow City Department for Culture Russian Academy of Arts Moscow Museum of Modern Art present
Now&After’12 Festival
Super-Super-City
Date: May, 24th till June, 13th 2012
Venue: Moscow Museum of Modern Art, 25 Petrovka str.
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Curator: Marina Fomenko
Now&After’12 takes place the second time in Moscow Museum of Modern Art.
The topic of this year is "SUPER-SUPER CITY".
The modern city is more than just a thickly settled agglomeration of architectural and engineering structures. It is a metropolis, absorbing millions of inhabitants. It is a settlement subordinated to the logic of industrial development. It is a small town, where time glides. It is a habitat that have known better days and unneeded now.
According to the rules of formal logic a double statement is not a denial, but merely reinforces the statement. However, contrary to logic, whether a double statement is a denial or a statement depends on intonation. The intonation is determined by an artist.
"Super-super city", what does it mean for you?
Is it a cosmopolitan city or a small patriarchal town that keeps up their traditions? Is it the natural habitat of a modern man or above all a set of «places of universal communication» (airports, subways, large supermarkets), where, according to Baudrillard, «people are deprived of their citizenship, nationality, their territory»? Is it a monotony of contemporary urbanism or a futuristic project? Is it loneliness in a crowd or togetherness of different? Is it a poetic urban landscape or the life of society around us? Is there an alternative to the city? Is «super-super city» a heyday or a decadence?
Competitive programme
Recep Akar, Turkey Juliana Alvarenga, Brazil Brit Bunkley, New Zealand Orit Adar Bechar, Israel Ezra Wube, Usa Alexey Dmitriev, Russia Aditi Kulkarni, India Nina Kurtela, Germany Natalia Magdalena, Brazil Alexandra Mitlyanskaya, Russia Roman Mokrov, Russia Joas Sebastian Nebe, Germany Lucia Nimcova, Slovakia Margaret Rorison, Usa Natalia Skobeyeva, Russia/uk Sam Sprekley, Uk Haim Sokol, Russia Christopher Steadman, Germany Pedro Ferreira, Portugal Maria Kharitonova, Russia Youki Hirakawa, Japan Oksana Chepelyk, Ukraine Marina Chernikova,Russia Nikki Schuster, Germany
Non-competitive programme
Tatiana Ahmetgaliyeva, Michaela Muchina, Russia-germany Viktoria Ilyushkina, Maya Popova, Russia Adam Kossoff, Uk Wojciech Oleinik, Sarah Jane Gorlits, Canada Noemi Sjoberg, Spain Benjamin R. Taylor, Canada Lucia Ferreira Litowschenko, Uruguay Marina Fomenko, Russia
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