Moscow and Beijing:

performing masculinity: the nude male body exposed and unnoticed

The agoraphilic drive: to be in public

Desiring the symbolic/crisis in symbolic

endurance, anatagonism, pain as subjectivity

no audience: searching for a gaze

desiring recognition

Движение «Э.Т.И.». Акция «Э.Т.И.-текст». Москва, Красная площадь. 18 апреля 1991 года. Фото: корреспондент МК. Courtesy Анатолий Осмоловский

Nascent post-soviet public sphere performance; writing "dick" with body, aphasia/failure of language, phallic desiring the symbolic. Whose gaze?

Alexander Brener, Boxing champion, Moscow (1995)

challenging Yeltsyn to a fight.

antagonism, endurance, masculinity, violence, state as audience, desiring the symbolic, wanting to be seen, failure of language

Ai Weiwei, Study of perspective- Tiananmen, 1995-2003

antagonism; body mediated by camera, corporeal aesthetic

questioning the status of the human

violence, pain as subjectivity

performing mediation and incorporation into the new social

Andrei Kuzkin, The main question, Moscow 2013

writing "what's this" with knife.

Corporeal aesthetics between discourse and visibility.

Spectacle, antagonism, pain.

How  is the word deposited in the body?

How is the sexed/human body symbolically determined?

Zhang Huan, 12 Sq Meters, Beijing (1994)

endurance, religious sacrificial body, relational body

Oleg Mavromati, screenshot from Oil on Canvas, Moscow 2000

pain, endurance, spectacle, desire for symbolic power, performance for the state, self and the law.

Title Text

He Yunchang, Dialogue with Water, 1999

pain, endurance as subjectivity.

what of the "post" is in the post-socialist?

cannibalism and death aesthetic

incorporation, eating, digestion: performing the resignification of the body

production of the post-socialist-neoliberal subject of desire and consumption

Yevgeny Ufit, Untitled, 1992

 Zhu Yu, Pocket Theology or Pocket Mythology 1999

dead/undead post-socialism

Zhu Yu, Eating People, 2000

"eating people"; Primitive Passions and incorporation of a post-Reform and Opening up gaze; self/other, eating socialism in post-socialist.

Voina, How to snatch a chicken, St Petersburg (2010)

incorporation and gender;

the supermarket camera gaze

question of origin

Zhu YU, Skin Graft, 2000

Biopolitical aesthetic and the medical, dissecting gaze

questioning the status of human animal

desiring unmediated communication

self/other: incorporation of marginal others

mediation by the camera and a corporal aesthetic

haptic gaze, uterine spaces, maternal aesthetic and temporality

inverse visuality

Zhu Ming, Performance in a Bubble, 1999-ongoing. Various locations.

de-centered body, phenomenological body, solipsism, fetus.

Petr Pavlensky, Carcass, St Petersburg (2013)

pain and subjectivity; aesthetic of biopolitics of state, creation of spectacle, religious aesthetic

Katrin Nenashava, Between here and there, Moscow (2017)

inverted gaze, self/other, desiring communication, refusal of gaze, haptic, self-city, maternal aesthetics.

Li Hong Phoenix Bridge

 corporeal gaze, inverse visuality, self-other incorporation, compassion and maternal aesthetic, haptic, desiring inmediated communication

Performing the medical gaze

dissection, rupture/removal, pain, sterility 

Petr Pavlensky, Segregation, Moscow (2014)

what happens to the ear lobe? pain and endurance, spectacle, masculinity, performing for the police/state. 

He Yunchang, One Meter of Democracy, 2010, photographs and video of performance

pain, endurance, status of human, medical/biopolitical gaze.