Lecture organized by the Centre for contemporary culture «Garage» and the
State Center for contemporary art. Venue: National Center for contemporary art,
Moscow, 13 Zoologicheskaya street, Bldg. 2
Contemporary art addresses a time in which mythology was supplanted by factual
knowledge, in which science is measured in terms of the economy, and ideology
was substituted for religion, and in which their number-ridden language leaves
no room for imagination. In confronting this world, art revives the space of
the indefinite, loaded with possibilities and their inversion, so as to hold
the irrational against all-out rationality. In doing so, art must remain to its
own standards, taking excursions into the unforeseen to discover the
unforeseeable.
Concurrently the exhibition “Austria davaj! The creative forces of Austria” is
being shown at the Shusev State Museum of Architecture. The exhibition brings
together seventeen individual artistic stances, which have helped to define
their respective fields while at the same time defining all traditional
categorizations. The spectrum ranges from young artists just beginning their
careers to artists, architects and designers of international importance who
attempt to uncover the most extreme limits of Austria’s creative
energies.
In 2002 the MAK has already shown the exhibition “Davaj. Russian Art Now.” from
the Laboratory of Fine Arts in Russia in Berlin, Cheboksary (Chuvash Republic)
and Vienna with great success.
Initiative of both exhibitions: Peter Noever.