Moscow Conceptualism: New Translations from the Russian

Official Site:
http://slavic.berkeley.edu/moscow-conceptualism-new-translations-from-the-russian/

A spate of new translations is bringing the writers and artists of Moscow Conceptualism to an English-language readership for the first time. Even as they drew on currents in western art, the Moscow Conceptualists (1970s-1980s) were distinguished by a singular focus on the Soviet experience, from the legacies of the avant-garde to the official culture of the Era of Stagnation. Serving as an ironic commentary on the entire arc of Soviet history, Moscow Conceptualism continues to exert a powerful influence on performance art in Putin’s Russia.

Schedule is as follows:

1.30 p.m.
Welcome: Prof. Harsha Ram, Slavic Languages and Literatures

1.45-3.00 p.m.
The Poets and their Verse
Moderated by Matvei Yankelevich, editor of the Eastern European Poets Series at Ugly Duckling Presse
Ainsley Morse and Bela Shayevich read Vsevolod Nekrasov
Yelena Kalinsky and Brian Droitcour read Andrei Monastyrski
Simon Schuchat reads Dmitrii Prigov
Matvei Yankelevich reads Lev Rubinstein

3.15 p.m.
Monastyrski and Prigov
Moderated by Prof. Edward Tyerman, Slavic Languages and Literatures
Christina Schwarz, Slavic Languages and Literatures
“Remontnye Raboty: Anamnesis in the life- writings of Andrei Monastyrski”

3.40 p.m.
Prof. Olga Matich, Slavic Languages and Literatures
“Conceptualist Total Art Prigov”

4.30-5.30 p.m.
Roundtable Discussion
Moderated by Prof. Alexei Yurchak, Anthropology

5.30 p.m.
Prof. Lyn Hejinian, English
“The Eros of Russian-American Poetic Exchange”

All will take place in the Geballe Room at the Townsend Center for the Humanities, 220 Stephens Hall.