In this video, Kim Conaty, Curator at the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, interviews artist Andrei Monastyrski at the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow during the C-MAP Central and Eastern European group trip in June 2015.
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Andrei Monastyrski is an artist, poet, writer, theoretician, and member of Collective Actions (Коллективные действия), a group of performance artists active in and around Moscow since 1976. Participants have included but are not limited to Nikita Alekseev, Georgii Kizevalter, Nikolai Panitkov, Vera Miturich-Khlebnikova, Ilya Kabakov, Igor Makarevich, and Elena Elagina. The work of Collective Actions was critical to developing conceptual and performance practices in Soviet Russia. In this interview, Monastyrski discusses the naming of the group, the role of photography and recording in its work, and several key performances.
