Conference “Underground and Lifeworld: Late Soviet Unofficial Culture as a Socio-Aesthetic Phenomenon”
The Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities and Uppsala University
Stockholm, 28–29 September 2019
The conference will highlight the most important aspects of underground culture – its lifeworlds. We will focus on such formative aspects of underground culture as its infrastructures, self- conceptualization, interactions with external cultural realms through the mechanisms of samizdat, magnitizdat, and tamizdat; different forms of spirituality intertwined with artistic and cultural practices, as well as gender and performative practices of the late Soviet underground.
Organizing committee:
Per-Arne Bodin, The Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities
Maria Engström, Uppsala University
Mark Lipovetsky, Columbia University
Working languages: English and Russian.
Venue: Ersta diakoni, Erstagatan 1, Stockholm https://www.erstadiakoni.se/sv/konferenshotell/konferens/
Saturday, 28 September 2019
10.00-10.30 Coffee and welcome from the organizing committee
Section 1. Conceptualizing Soviet cultural underground
Chair: Maria Engström
10.30-11.00 Mark Lipovetsky (Columbia University). Underground culture and historical avant-garde
11.00-11.30 Ilya Kukuj (Ludwig-Maximilian-University of Munich). Infrastructures of the late Soviet underground
11.30-12.00 Klaudia Smola (University of Dresden). The Life-World of Late Soviet underground
12.00-13.00 Lunch
Section 2.
Chair: Mark Lipovetsky
13.00-13.30. Ann Komaromi (University of Toronto). Samizdat, tamizdat and magnitizdat
13.30-14.00 Irina Sandomirskaya (Södertörn University). ”Maria”, the underground, and an anti-feminist feminism
14.00-14.30 Per-Arne Bodin (The Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities). Maria Iudina and the cult of heroines in the underground
14.30-15.00 Coffee
Section 3. Leningrad and Moscow Artistic Underground: 1980s and early 1990s
Chair: Ilya Kukuj
15.00-15.30 Maria Engström (Uppsala University). Консервативный андеграунд: Южинский кружок
15.30-16.00 Ekaterina Andreeva (State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg). Тимур Новиков и “Новые художники”. Ресайклинг советского быта
16.30-17.00 Andrei Khlobystin (St Petersburg). Народный концептуализм Тимура Новикова
17.00-17.30 Oleg Kotel’nikov (Pushkinskaia 10, St Petersburg). tbc
Sunday, 29 September 2019
9.00 Coffee
Section 4. Late Conceptualism
Chair: Per-Arne Bodin
9.30-10.00 Sabine Hänsgen (Humboldt University). Video poiesis. Documenting the Lifeworld of Moscow Conceptualism
10.00-10.30 Tomáš Glanc (Zurich University). West- and East-European sources and contexts of Late Soviet Underground
10.30-11.00 Fruits
Section 5
Chair: Klaudia Smola
11.00-11.30 Ilya Kukulin (The Higher School of Economics, Moscow). Between Permitted and Unofficial Cultures: Leningrad’s “Club-81” and Its Strategies of Public Activities
11.30-12.00 Stanislav Savitsky (The Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg). Self-conceptualization of the late Soviet underground (theory and politics)
12.00-13.00 Roundtable. The Handbook of Soviet Underground Culture
Chair: Mark Lipovetsky
13.00-14.00 Lunch