2+2/Practicing Godard (Part I)
I was inspired to make this film after the police forced me to delete video footage of the OMON raid on our seminar in Nizhny Novgorod. I was struck by their brazen confidence that they could erase things from people’s memory as easily as you can delete a video image.
This film [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Vpered Socialist Movement’
October 27, 2009
2+2/Practicing Godard (The Story of the “Communal Life” Seminar)
Filed under Russian society, activism, alternative education, contemporary art, critical thought, film and video, political repression
Tags: 2+2/Practicing Godard, Center "E", Dmitry Vilensky, Jean-Luc Godard, Kirill Medvedev, Nikolay Oleinikov, Nizhny Novgorod, Oleg Zhuravlyov, Russian police state, Sympathy for the Devil, Vpered Socialist Movement
December 13, 2008
Kandinsky Is Ashamed: Vpered and Chto Delat Picket the Kandinsky Prize
To receive the award, the three young men that comprise [the PG Group] came on stage wearing ski masks, announcing themselves to be the Moscow representatives of Somali pirates.“The future belongs to people in masks,” one member of the group said, to a stunned audience. “Your fat-cat lifestyle will soon end and then you’ll all [...]
December 8, 2008
An Open Letter on the 2008 Kandinsky Prize
An Open Letter on the 2008 Kandinsky Prize
We admit it upfront: we don’t care much for the artist Alexei Belyaev (Guintovt), and we don’t care about him. His art is beyond the pale of criticism, and we have never had any illusions about his political views. By the mid-1990s, he had already drifted into the [...]
Filed under Russian society, activism, anti-racism, anti-fascism, contemporary art, open letters, manifestos, appeals, racism, nationalism, fascism
Tags: Alexander Borovsky, Alexander Dugin, Alexei Belyaev-Gintovt, Andrei Kovalev, Andrei Yerofeyev, Deutsche Bank, Eurasian Movement, Jean-Hubert Martin, Joseph Backstein, Kandinsky Prize, Moscow Biennale, Russian neo-fascism, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, Valerie Hillings, Vpered Socialist Movement
November 29, 2008
Moscow: Free Concert in Support of Assaulted Russian Activists (December 1)
NO TO THE PERSECUTION OF SOCIAL AND LABOR ACTIVISTS!
NO TO THE REPRESSION OF TRADE UNIONS!
NO TO THE WHITE TERROR AGAINST THE LEFTIST MOVEMENT!
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FREE CONCERT
December 1, 2008, 9:00 p.m. Proekt OGI, Moscow (Potapovsky per. 8/12, bldg. 2; Metro: Chistie Prudy)
Chronicle of a Single Day (November 13, 2008):
The second attack on Alexei Etmanov, leader of the labor [...]
