CHECK IN BUDAPEST 7.
THE RAW, THE COOKED AND THE PACKAGED
and
THE ARCHIVE OF PERESTROIKA ART
co-organized by ACAX | Agency for Contemporary Art Exchange and the Open Society Archives
Date: 14 April 2009, 6pm
Location: Open Society Archive (1051 Budapest Arany János u. 32.)
Theoretical conceptions of the eponymous archival exhibition at The Museum for Contemporary Art, KIASMA Helsinki, 2007-2008, presented by Ivor Stodolsky with the contribution of co-curator and Perpetuum Mobilε co-founder Marita Muukkonen
This lecture introduces an anthropological-semiotic paradigm and demonstrates its application in a museum context. Originally developed in response to the conditions of the western “hyperreal” and the obfuscations of “postmodernist” theory, the “production paradigm” – The Raw, The Cooked and The Packaged – was applied to the curatorial and anthropological problem of understanding the “archive” of art/artifacts of the Perestroika era, and its historicisation. In the course of the presentation – which will include short films and other visual documentation – the complex of theoretical, institutional and artistic issues involved in affecting an appropriate representation of the Perestroika era will be brought to light.
The “Archive of Tins” at the exhibition in Kiasma.
Includes: A tin of Soviet tooth-powder, a tin celebrating the 22nd Congress of the CPSU and a signed Campbell’s Soup Can by Andy Warhol. On the right, a photograph of Warhol holding a painting by Oleg Kotelnikov.
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