Andrei Monastyrski is an artist, poet, writer and theoretician. He was born in Petsamo in the Murmansk region of Russia in 1949. He graduated from the language and literature department of Moscow State University. Since 1975 he has produced performances, objects, installations, texts, and visual poetry. He has been a member of the Collective Actions group since 1976. Editor and compiler of many important editions: first MANI (Moscow Archive of the New Art) folder in 1981, he also collected MANI texts between 1986 and 1991, and since 1976 has edited Trips Out of the City (volumes comprising works by the Collective Actions group) and the Dictionary of Terms of the Moscow Conceptual School (1998). In 2003 he won the Andrey. Bely Prize. Member of the group “Kapiton” 2009-2010.
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. For subtitles, click on CC at the bottom right of the video and select English. Andrei…
