A dream as a method

In March, the Garage Museum was opened by the exhibition “Choosing a distance: speculation, fakes, forecasts in the era of the coronate” (curators: Yaroslav Volod, Ekaterina Lazarev and Ekaterina Savchenko), on which we, the media activist association “Cafe-Breeded” , and the working group presented the project “Radical Dreams”.

We invited the artists, Kuratoro_k and the collaboration of cultural institutions of different cities of Russia (Dima Bezuglova, Ilya Budraitkis, Ilona Voitkovskaya, Maria Dmitrieva, Dina Ishchenko and Kolya Svesivtseva) to the working group of radical dreams. Think about what worries us in the device of the system of modern Russian art. For eight meetings, the working group identified and analyzed systemic problems and tried to imagine a more fair, stable and sensitive to differences the future. The result was eight posters in two parts: a map of discontent and a dream system - they are presented at the exhibition in the Garage. However, the laconic form of the poster could not accommodate the lion's share of discoveries, good comments, disagreements, accurate metaphors and formulations. In this publication, we decided to make a double move: to share the posters in the form of Zin and publish fragments of the reasoning that are behind them.

Nastya Dmitrievskaya, Dasha Yuriychuk