‘Defying the Death of Art: Russian Art From Malevitch to Kabakov’ Lecture

Nikolai Fedorov’s early 20th Century book, “Philosophy of the Common Task,” which was fiercely anti-formalist (something still largely not understood) and aimed at annihilating the notion of death, deeply affected not just the political reality of the Russian 20th century, but its aesthetic drive as well.

The lecture will be on the Arkady and Boris Strugatsky’s 1964 novel, “Monday Begins on Saturday,” and its interpretation in the First Bergen Assembly, curated by Ekaterina Degot and David Riff (2013).

Lecture by Ekaterina Degot
Degot is an art historian, art writer, and curator whose work focuses on aesthetic and sociopolitical issues in Russia, predominantly in the post-Soviet era. She is also the artistic director of the Academy of Arts of the World, Cologne. She teaches at the Rodchenko Moscow School of Photography and Multimedia.