Collective Actions
Journal: Rutgers University Community Repository (Rutgers University)
Year: 2013

This dissertation charts the history of Collective Actions, a group of artists, poets, musicians, and other intellectuals who staged conceptual actions that investigated the nature of viewer perception and aesthetic experience in late-Soviet Moscow. Focusing on the period between 1976 and 1989, the dissertation draws on perspectives from art history, performance studies, and Soviet cultural history to closely analyze the enigmatic actions, dispersed multi-media archive, and voluminous theoretica