Gestures in the era of gestures

There is no doubt that artists’ rejection of the raucous corporeal practice of the 1990s and their haste toward a new utopia to some degree reflects the condition of contemporary Russian society, which is sinking ever deeper in post coitus tristia, the amnesia-inducing stability that has obscured everything we lived through. This state is accompanied by very acute feelings.

Kovalev A. Gestures in the era of gestures // Artchronika (Eng. edition). — 2008. — no. Spring-Summer. — P. 108–117. Exеpt from the book Russian Actionism, 1999-2000.

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