Art after the Future

Participants: Sergey Bratkov, Dmitry Gutov, Haim Sokol, Diana Machulina, Arseniy Zhilyaev

Moderator: Stanislav Shuripa, artist, art historian, and professor at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Moscow

Today, the redirection of utopian expectations from the past is increasingly apparent. Compared with the early days of the avant-garde, there has been a shift in the social imagination and self-awareness of contemporary art. The past is increasingly seen as a ‘former future’, and the present as a ‘future past’. Does this mark only a moment in the on-going progress of development or a tectonic shift in culture? Should contemporary art look towards a lost future?  These questions will be raised by Stanislav Shuripa and will be discussed by the artists of Futurologia and Russian Utopias. 

Admission free, limited places, booking required