Most of these photographs are documents of performances (Rimma Gerlovina, Sergei Borisov) or Conceptual artworks (Ivan Chuikov), or a mix of both (Yuri Leiderman, Vadim Zakharov and Nikita Alekseev).
Readings will include writings by visual artists who produce documents of performances, surrealists who use "automatic" methods to reveal the unconscious, poets who seek to capture states of enlightenment or intoxication, and novelists who employ extreme conditions to achieve unexpected results.
"Many of the works are indeed documents of performances or still from moving image works.
The first and third works were films, and most imaginatively made, but they were also documents of other performance pieces.
Photographs of footprints in the sand function as documents of a performance protest in which the artists and their associates went to Vieques and trespassed on a beach used by the United States military as a bombing range.
His recordings are among the few surviving documents of live performances from a period that is frequently described as the golden age of country music.
So we find together Bridget Riley's Op paintings and Morellet's machine-driven sculptures, along with documents of public performances by Lygia Pape, the common bond being the element of movement.
Photography gained added interest as a means of recording an artist's performance of an idea and as a historical document of the performance that could be circulated.
With his surgically repaired hips, his documented history of performance-enhancing drug use and his age — 38 — he is a risky bet to hold up very long.
