*ALMOST THE LAST CHANCE TO VISIT THE TERRITORIES!!!*
Dear Friends:
This is a reminder. If you haven't had a chance to see the exhibit,
please come.
DECEMBER 8, FRIDAY AT 4 PM
SVETLANA BOYM WILL BE DOING A GUIDED TOUR OF TERRITORIES OF TERROR
850 Commonwealth ave, Boston University Art Gallery
*Territories of Terror: Mythologies and Memories of the Gulag in
Contemporary Russian-American Art *
Curated by Svetlana Boym of Harvard University, this exhibition is one
of the first attempts to tackle the dual imperative of Gulag history and
mythology, map and territory, through contemporary art. Seven
internationally recognized contemporary artists--Vitaly *Komar* and
Alexander *Melamid*, Leonid *Sokov*, Grisha *Bruskin*, Eugene *Yelchin*,
Irina *Nakhova* and Vadim *Zakharov*--who grew up in the former Soviet
Union have been given a "territory" in the gallery in order to confront
the haunted space of the "zone" in history and in the individual psyche.
They represent two generations of ex-Soviet non-conformist art: Vitaly
Komar and Alexander Melamid, Leonid Sokov and Grisha Bruskin were born
during Stalin's time and reflect with a mixture of nostalgia and irony
on their totalitarian childhoods, while Irina Nakhova, Eugene Yelchin
and Vadim Zakharov, born during Khrushchev's thaw, have a more alienated
attitude vis-à-vis the totalitarian mythology.
Their territories of terror are border zones that reflect their
cross-cultural experience. What they capture in their installations is
the legacy of terror that shaped structures of mentality, spatial
imagination, utopian aspirations and claustrophobic anxieties that
mirror the tragic paradoxes of twentieth century history. A companion
exhibition, GULAG: Soviet Forced Labor Camps and the Struggle for
Freedom, runs concurrently at Boston University's 808 Gallery.
SEE INFORMATION ATTACHED AND LINKS BELOW!
www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2006/11.02/01-gulag.html
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