Leah Feldman is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Theater and Performance Studies at University of Chicago working on empire, nationalism, and critical approaches to ethnicity, gender and sexuality from the vantage point of the Caucasus and Central Asia. She is the author of On the Threshold of Eurasia: Orientalism and Revolutionary Aesthetics in the Caucasus (Cornell 2018) and a forthcoming art book cowritten with the artist collective Slavs and Tatars, Azbuka Strikes Back: An Anticolonial ABCs. She is currently coediting an anthology of anticolonial thought and writing a monograph, Feeling Collapse, which explores waning attachments to internationalist feelings amid the collapse of the Soviet empire and how performance art, film and theatre in the Caucasus and Central Asia shaped alternative politics and publics.
In May 1988 unofficial artists from across the Soviet republics gathered in Narva, Estonia, for what would be one of the last Soviet art festivals and yet one of the first such events to celebrate experimental performance art.1Throughout this essay, I use the term “unofficial artists” to refer to a generation of artists practicing experimental…
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