Radek Retrospective (Part II)

24Jan08

Radek Community. Against Everyone. Action, 1999. Photo via Kovolev.com at flickr
A week ago, the Radek Community announced its dissolution. Little has changed in Moscow since then. Most people just smiled and said something like “Didn’t those guys break up a while ago already?” Basically, they saw the announcement as another non-event in a normalized [...]

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Radek Retrospective (Part I)

18Jan08

Photo via http://sil-kin.livejournal.com/93975.html
Since last night, it is official. The Radek Community no longer exists. The Radeks were once the “children of Moscow Actionism”: in the late 1990s, they made (or helped to make) a number of key performances in public space. They participated in the building of a barricade in the center of Moscow in [...]

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Tags: actionism, performance, Radek