The author of the Projection, curator Anastasia Bespalova discusses how art and politics are connected not only through political symbols. About how art in the service of totalitarian regimes quietly undermines them, about things that make you speechless and about longing for a different state of the world - in the essay “The Poetics of Politics” about Taryn Simon’s projects.

"Rise up" by Mike Shinoda — Renting a Hong Kong apartment with an area half the size of a similar one in New York, London or San Francisco is more expensive. — About one in five people lives below the poverty line. — The minimum wage is $4.82 per hour. Hong Kong, a semi-autonomous Chinese city of 7.4 million people, has been rocked by colossal protests this summer. It may be the place with the greatest population inequality in the world.

This text originally appeared on the website of the Laboratory of Art Criticism with a foreword by expert Yegor Sofronov. The text was published on his page, since I am not a member of the Laboratory and, accordingly, cannot publish materials on the site on my own behalf. For ease of reading and preserving the authorship, I publish the text separately.

Do you want to know what it's like - to be a poet? This means, try already. Remain forever a newbie handyman - the end of the term, that's why shift starts you see: a hole, you see: a cut. You say: I have something in the shoe or in your pocket, there, behind the lining. If it suddenly slips between the fingers, where will you look? If only Orpheus loved Eurydice he wouldn't have slipped through if I loved you he wouldn't turn around when I left from the underworld. August 2019

The publishing house “Elementary Forms” has published a translation of the book by American sociologist Erwin Goffman “Total Institutions”. One of the main themes of the book is the impact of mental hospitals on their residents. Here is an excerpt from the chapter “The Medical Model and Psychiatric Hospitalization: Some Notes on the Victims of the Repair Career Profession,” where Goffman describes the contradictions of mental health care and the psychiatrist-patient relationship. Hospital of St.

Psalter of the Russian Philosopher. V.V. Varawa “And I understood, Lord, That there is nothing worthwhile in life, Except life itself...... For there is nothing in life that is not from life.” Psalter of the Russian Philosopher Every person at some time wonders about God and his place before him. Then inevitably the inner world, like the outer world, begins to be divided into black and white, good and evil, deification and atheism.

Jaume Plensa. Glückauf?. 2014. Iron. installation. An exhibition of sculptures by Spanish artist Jaume Plensa is taking place as usual. There are no round tables, no lectures, only five general articles. Plensa's art is very subtle and lyrical; there are no mind-blowing concepts, deconstructions of social practices and institutional criticism here. It is filled with a quiet sound that you need to listen to, silencing your inner voices.

On the eve of the opening of the exhibition " After the Future " (August 9 - 29), the Triumph gallery for the first time in Russian publishes Mark Fisher's article "What is ghostology?" Victoria Kosheleva. Night call. Oil on canvas. 2019 The concept of ghostology took on a second (un)life in the middle of the last decade. Critics were prompted to return to this term by the appearance of a whole galaxy of performers: musicians Burial and The Caretaker, the Ghost Box label, Philip Jack.

1 It is very difficult for me to talk about what could be called “the program, the guiding idea of ​​our work,” these are too speculative categories, too abstract. What we do is connected not only with practice, but also - perhaps to a much greater extent - with a certain way of life, the search for people, meetings. In fact, the question we face is: how to live? And if we do this on the territory of the theater, then insofar as this is where we started.