Nicolay Smirnov - 'Cosmism, Marxism and Gnostic/Hermetic Tradition'
Channel: AVU Stream
Date: 2021-11-03

As part of Anton Vidokle's semester in The Studio of Visiting Artist AVU - Šaloun, The Institute of Cosmos, we cordially invite the general public to join us for our next guest lecture by 
Nicolay Smirnov - 'Cosmism, Marxism and Gnostic/Hermetic Tradition'
https://www.e-flux.com/.../elements-of-immanentism-in.../
Nikolay Smirnov (born in 1982) works as an artist, a geographer, a curator and a researcher regarding spatial practices and representations of space and place in art, science, museum practices and everyday life. His practice is aimed at analysis and implementation of complex narratives in form of text, exhibition dispositive and film. He recently developed the concept of speculative geography as a tool for local studies.
He studied at the Geography Department of Moscow State University, Rodchenko Art School (Moscow), The School of Contemporary Art Free Workshops MMOMA (Moscow Museum of Modern Art). Co-curator of the projects Metageography and Permafrost (Arctic Biennale, Yakutsk, 2016), Nikolay Smirnov has been nominated for the Innovation Award for a Curatorial Project.
The guest lecture program will continue:
October 26th Boris Groys
October 28th Oxana Timofeeva
November 2nd Nicolay Smirnov
November 9th Arseny Zhilyaev
November 16th SooHwan Kim
November 23th Pelin Tan
November 30th Hallie Ayres
December 8th Keti Chukhrov
December 14th Eugene Kuchinov