Again, 2 years later, it happened. In the Concert Hall. Tchaikovsky Moscow Philharmonic began the VI International Festival of Contemporary Music “Another Space”​. International not only due to the involvement of world performers and authors, but also in terms of significance and influence. In principle, there are very few festivals of comparable scale in the world of so-called “current” music. Music written by our contemporaries. On the very first day, 4 premieres were performed at once.

Bérénice Levet, Ph.D., essayist and Hannah Arendt specialist, abandoning philosophical restraint, directly calls for liberation from feminism, this “new puritanism.” She entrusts the mission of overthrowing this false and dangerous ideology to France. In the subtitle of her book: “France, country of gallantry and libertinism, do not deny yourself!” Conversation with the author on radio RCJ Berenice Leve, you wrote a very brave and militant essay!

Hans Haake. Oil painting, homage to Marcel Broodthaers. 1982. Installation view at the Documenta 7 exhibition, Kassel. 1982. Photo: © documenta Archiv The conference “Figures of Power, Codes of Regression” will be held as part of the Laboratory of Art Criticism on December 16 in the Vintage Hall of the Winzavod.

There is no other name for this place. A cafe, a car wash, a tire service and a spare parts store (it seems that everything is correct). And all this is located in the small hall of the Drama Theater. Not always. Only during the play “The Golden Snake”. Honestly, I don’t even know how to evaluate the performance. I both liked it and didn’t like it. Nicely done? Yes. Topical? Yes, yes. Honestly? That's not the right word! And still something is wrong.

We share the memories of the artist Alexander Ponomarev, published in the catalog “Routes of Memory”, which is dedicated to the solo exhibition of the same name by Katerina Kovaleva at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art. Katerina Kovaleva, MAP OF THE WORLD. Paper, mixed media, 112×95.

Mikhail Trofimenkov. “The history of Russian cinema in 50 films” (St. Petersburg: Word Order, 2018) This book is a guide to the sunken film continent, but the guide is the author’s, subjective. Catching fifty films from the ocean of Russian cinema, I tried to be not only and not so much a historian as a spectator. To share with readers not so much knowledge as the emotions evoked by the film, and this film does not necessarily have to be “inscribed in golden letters” in the history of cinema.

Translation of a chapter from the book “Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures” (2014) by British theorist, cultural scientist and writer Mark Fisher, dedicated to the analysis of the work of the group Joy Division. Adapted from k-punk's post on January 9, 2005 If Joy Division matters now more than ever, it's because they capture the despondent spirit of our times.

When the blackberries ripen on no one's bush, I'm spending all day among these branches, I hold out, straining your hands, about nothing without thinking, I stuff my mouth dark honey of this summer, all day my body gets used to himself. there, in the dark streams, flowing past the palm of my life sneaks through dark bells and leaves around there is my happy tongue.

My interview with artist Mariam Duduchava for the Moisture public page. Your first artistic practices are associated with experiences that were a consequence of the military actions taking place near you. I am interested in this subtle matter that was at that moment when you created. That thought that pushed you towards art, and not violence, cruelty, that is, you made your choice. Since childhood, I have had an artistic perception of the world.

In relationships built by traumatized parts, there is a lot of replaying of feelings encapsulated in another space and time. Out of place. Feelings that stuck like splinters deep in the body in the distant past. Sometimes these can even be feelings that go through generations. The feelings of our ancestors who are looking for life here in us. They - these feelings - were simply not recognized and lived in the place where they arose.

The seminar blog of the Laboratory of Unnecessary Things on Sigma opens with a report by Tatyana Mikhailova on a new approach in the analysis of Indo-European myths by Scottish researcher Emily Lyle and her book “10 Gods”. The report was given at a public weekly seminar on comparative mythology.