Is Russia Anti-Western or Not? – From the Utopia of Cybernetic Romanticism to Pjotr Pavlensky
- Where: Václav Havel Library, Ostrovní 13, Prague 110 00
- When: March 23, 2016, 19:00 – 21:00
We think of the Soviet Union as a country cut off from the Western world by the Iron Curtain with official art of the socialist realist type and unofficial contemporary art and literature disseminated in samizdat, private studios and the kitchens of friends. However, the reality was more complicated.
The lecture will explore the paradoxical possibilities, or the impossibility, of free art in repressive conditions, then and now.
First evening in a series of lectures by Russian Studies expert Tomáš Glanc (Universität Zürich) entitled Living Souls II: Contemporary Russian Culture in Words and Images.