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Интервью и упоминания

Павел Арсеньев — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 05:15:55 +0000

Упоминания в книгах и научных публикациях

На английском:

Marijeta Bozovic. Avant-Garde Post– Radical Poetics after the Soviet Union (Harvard University Press, 2023)

What does leftist art look like in the wake of state socialism? In recent years, Russian-language avant-garde poetry has been seeking the answers to this question. Marijeta Bozovic follows a constellation of poets at the center of a contemporary literary movement that is bringing radical art out of the Soviet shadow: Kirill Medvedev, Pavel Arseniev, Aleksandr Skidan, Dmitry Golynko, Roman Osminkin, Keti Chukhrov, and Galina Rymbu. While their formal experiments range widely, all share a commitment to explicitly political poetry. Each one, in turn, has become a hub in a growing new-left network across the former Second World. libgen
Stephanie Sandler. The freest speech in Russia : poetry unbound, 1989-2022 (Princeton University Press, 2024)

An essential introduction to contemporary Russian poetry that considers its development alongside post-Soviet Russia’s evolving cultural and political landscape.

Chapter 1 Politics: writing poems in a world of harm: Medvedev, Golynko, Arsenev

Bradley А. Gorski. Cultural Capitalism: Literature and the Market after Socialism (Northern Illinois University Press, 2025)

Chapter Anti-capitalism and Fight for Art

Ksenia Fedorova. Aesthetics of the Homunculus of Science. Artistic Approach to Physiological Research in New Anthropology // Wahrnehmungskräfte – Kräfte wahrnehmen. Dynamiken der Sinne in Wissenschaft, Kunst und Literatur, 2024

На русском:

Олег Горелов. «Поспорив о сюрреализме и современной поэзии…»: технологии революционного сюрреализма П. Арсеньева // Новое Литературное Обозрение №170 (4/2021)

Schellens D.E.A. St. Petersburg als Palimpsest: subversive Geschichtskonstruktionen als Gegendiskurs in der Performance- und Aktionskunst des Laboratoriums für poetischen Aktionismus. In: Frischmuth A., Hoy T. & Färber C. (Eds.), Erinnerungsraum Osteuropa. Zur Poetik der Migration, Erinnerung und Geschichte des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts. no. 34. Berlin: Peter Lang. 173-189 (2018).

Schellens D.E.A., «Time to Speak!” Pavel Arsen’ev and the Laboratory for Poetic Action. Leiden Rusland Blog (2015)

Anna Landikhova. Poetic performance: literature or politics (2011)

На чешском:

На японском:

Naoto Yagi. The struggle of Post-Soviet Leftist Art: Politicizing Art, Activating the Public // Genron-tomonokai # 7
- Большое интервью для Saint-Petersburg Digest / 25.12.2019
Интервью на Openspace / Colta

Борьба на три фронта / 18.06.2020 / ИСКУССТВО
Диалог-послесловие с Олегом Журавлевом к вышедшей книге в серии *démarche

Editeur maudit, или о побеге из институций, поиске знания и образовании / 24.04.2020 / ИСКУССТВО
Colta.ru заглядывает в новую лабораторию [Транслит]

Павел Арсеньев: «Лирическое письмо устарело» / 31.05.2017 / ИСКУССТВО
Якуб Капичьяк выяснил у Павла Арсеньева, как увернуться от «Освенцима макулатуры»

«Сообщество заведомо несогласных друг с другом людей» / 13.11.2014 / ЛИТЕРАТУРА
Денис Ларионов поговорил с организаторами альманаха [Транслит]

Портрет поколения: Павел Арсеньев / 15.05.2012 / АНКЕТА ПРОЕКТА «СТАРТ»
Автор OPENSPACE.RU, член Лаборатории поэтического акционизма, а теперь и художник «Старта» отвечает на наши традиционные вопросы
- Интервью на Aroundart
Против беспринципного языка / 07.11.12
Aroundart, человек и редакция, вписался на пару дней в питерской квартире-коммуне, где проживают участники Лаборатории поэтического акционизма

«Нужно за эту форму бороться» / 04.05.12
По просьбе Aroundart художник Михаил Заиканов побеседовал с Павлом Арсеньевым

Poetry & Performance at Nova synagoga, Zilina / Kulturni centar, Beograd / Shedhalle, Zürich / Motorenhalle, Dresden / Wroclav / Liberec

Павел Арсеньев — Fri, 22 Dec 2017 14:07:58 +0000

Artists:

Pavel Arsenev, Babi Badalov, Collective Actions Group, Václav Havel, Semyon Khanin (Orbita), Yuri Leiderman / Andrey Silvestrov, Andrei Monastyrski, Roman Osminkin, Dmitri Prigov, Lev Rubinstein, Mladen Stilinović & many others

Curators:

Tomáš Glanc, Sabine Hänsgen.

In the second half of the twentieth century, poets and artists in particular took up the challenge of reflecting on and investigating the instrumentalization of language for communicative and political-ideological purposes. They did so by drawing attention to the “made-ness” of language, its material and medial dimension, and by creating performative situations for themselves and their audiences within which possibilities of verbal expression could be tested and acted out. In Eastern Europe, poetry and performance played a significant role in the unofficial or partially tolerated cultural scene.

Poetry & Performance. The Eastern European Perspective The writing practice of samizdat and its relation to the devices of concrete and visual poetry have been treated and presented in a number of previous projects. Until now however, less consideration has been given to the circumstances of performance. In addition to the typescript literature of samizdat, subcultural milieus attached particular importance to the oral recitation of poems, exhibitions, and poetry actions. The interrelation between text and situation in poetic acts functioned as a trigger for performances and happenings. The exhibition presents authors from subcultures in socialist states along with contemporary positions that continue the legacy of combining poetry and performance. It shows the efforts of poets and artists to break free from controlled language and normative communicative now and then. “Poetry & Performance. The Eastern European Perspective” thus confronts the current social challenges in the post-socialist countries through the prism of language and ideology and looks back at their points of departure.

Venues

Nova synagoga, Zilina (December, 2017 – March, 2018)
Kulturni centar, Beograd (March, 2018)
Shedhalle, Zürich (September – October, 2018) pdf
Motorenhalle, Dresden (April – July, 2019)
Wrocław Contemporary Museum (March – June 2020) pdf
Regional Art Gallery Liberec (Decembre 2020 – April 2021)
Cultural Center in Dnipro (November 2021 – February 2022) pdf
Museum of Czech Literature (June – September 2024)
Upcoming venues: Kassák Múzeum Budapest
FOOTNOTES ON ART online magazine
BLOK MAGAZINE Announcement ARTALK.cz
Foto Report
Booklets, interviews, reviews and awards on the exhibition’s page

Comissioned work(s) for the exhibition:

La propagande par le fait

Павел Арсеньев — Mon, 04 Dec 2017 10:39:29 +0000

Pavel Arsenev’s & Michael Kurtov’s lecture-performance «La propagande par le fait» in the framework of the programm «REAGENZ — Dialog of artist and philosopher»

4 Decembre, в 19.00
Kunstraum Dreiviertel
Monbijoustrasse 69, Bern

The juxtaposition of effectiveness of words and of persuasiveness of deeds dates back to the biblical epoch, but in political practice this pair first appears in the movement of parlefaitism (from the French ‘par le fait’), or propaganda by the deeds, inspired by writings of Russian anarchist Mikhail Bakunin (buried in bremgarten cemetery, bern). In the illiterate country which Russia was in 19th century such form of political argument as ‘real deeds’ was indeed more convincing than any speech acts, however а deep distrust towards the signifier is rooted in the very russian cultural consciousness, e.g., in a metaphysical aspiration of poets ‘to speak by the soul’ or ‘to write with the truth’. The aim of the project is to clarify what parlefaitism can mean for political, artistic and intellectual life today, in the year of the centenary of the October revolution.

Event / Video

Grenze des Systems DIALOG NO.1 PAVEL ARSENEV & MIKHAIL KURTOV 4. Dezember, ab 19.00 Kunstraum Dreiviertel Monbijoustrasse 69, Bern Wir freuen uns, Euch zu unserer neuen Veranstaltungsreihe des interdisziplinären Projekts «REAGENZ — Dialog zwischen Kunst und Wissenschaft» einzuladen. Eröffnet wird die Reihe am 4. Dezember mit der Präsentation der Ergebnisse eines Gespräches zwischen Dr. phil. Mikhail Kurtov und dem Künstler Pavel Arsenev. Der Wissenschaftler und der Künstler sind nach eingeladen um sich mit dem Thema “Grenze des Systems” auseinander zu setzen. Zum Abschluss des “Revolutionsjahres” werden sich unsere Gäste aus St. Petersburg an den, in Bern beerdigten, russischen Anarchisten Bakunin erinnern und die Grenze zwischen “Real deeds” (die von ihm propagierte, leistungsorientierte Arbeit) und “blosser Rederei” diskutieren. Wir kennen weder Ablauf noch Ergebnis des Gesprächs und sind gleichermassen gespannt auf die Präsentation. Ausstellung: 4. Dezember – 20. Dezember 2017

Fancy Moscow (Installation)

Павел Арсеньев — Fri, 08 Sep 2017 07:23:00 +0000

Fancy Moscow, 2017

Installation

Cosmoscow International Contemporary Art Fair and Mercury present Pavel Arsenev’s installation Fancy Moscow. The work is displayed as part of Cosmoscow parallel programme with participation of Alexei Maslyaev, curator of Cosmoscow non-commercial programme.

Between the arches of the Tretyakovsky Pass and all along its length three-dimensional white letters are strained. They are formed in lines of simple words and short sentences. While the viewer tries to look them over in a single glance, they intersect in layers, ‘interrupting’ each other. One can only ‘embrace’ them in motion. While moving to Nikolskaya Street, all the lines can be read in a certain non-linear sequence, connecting into a spatial text composition. The way it is organized (breakdown into lines and their length, the line spacing, etc.) sets the rhythm. This way separate phrases and words become a poetic speech suddenly materialized.

Arsenev’s interest toward graphical aspects and types of poetic texts’ representation implies rapport and convergence of the both literary and artistic spheres. The Fancy Moscow installation introduces the work of Vsevolod Nekrasov (1934-2009), notable representative of the second wave of Russian avant-garde and poet of the conceptual school to the art scene. As Nekrasov himself said, “For me poetry is, to a large extent, is visual art,” and Arsenyev shares this view of poetic text. Arsenyev provides the text with material form and puts it into another dimension. There is a transition of a temporal phenomenon into a spatial phenomenon. Poetry ceases to be intended for reading and turns into a situation that emerge as a space of interaction and dialogue. Being a work of public art, Arsenyev’s statement is connected with the transformation of the everyday urban environment, in which there is usually no place for poetry. Overcoming the boundaries of printed page, expanding the notion of its possible relation to reality, poetry invades the city and fuels imagination and the ability to dream.

Pavel Arsenev is an artist, poet and theorist. Arsenyev is the participant of several personal and collective exhibitions (see here) and author of three books, “That, Which Does Not Settle In the Head” (AnnaNova, 2005), “Colorless Green Ideas Violently Slumber” (Kraft, 2011), and «Spasm of accommodation” (Berkeley, 2017). He is editor-in-chief of the literary criticism almanac Translit. He was the recipient of the Andrei Bely Literary Prize in 2012.

Afghan-Kuzminki

Павел Арсеньев — Wed, 26 Jul 2017 11:00:17 +0000

Spectacle by Pavel Arsenev based on dramatic poem Keti Chukhrov.

Site-specific performance directed by Pavel Arsenev took place on clothes market in the very center of S-Petersburg behind the Big Dramatic Theater. The piece is based on the text “Afgan-Kuzminki”, a dramatic poem by Keti Chukhrov with two protagonists — the wholesale dealer of the cheap clothes market and a saleswoman. This play juxtapose the everyday prophane language of the unprivileged with the almost miraculous potentiality to overcome and transcend such language by means of the Poetic, that can arise from anywhere. Harshness that helps to struggle with hard life at the expence of becoming beasty, rude and merciless might have an incredible and unexpected outcome in case of the event of love, filiation, meeting, amity. Hatred, pain, nausea may have a strange climax when they are able to achieve transformation into the opposite. This is possible only in the regime of the poetic parole which is not the monologue of a lirycal hero, but always a live dialogue between the two or more — i.e. a theatre. The plot of a play is very simple. The wholesale supplier Hamlet offers the saleswoman Galina a barter — if she has sex with him, he lets her get a more profitable sales counter — not the underware counter at which she presently works but the fur-counter. It is clear though, that none of them actually desires such sex, they do it because within the life they live they are doomed to such relationship. This is a mathematical formula of a predetermined promiscuous compromise, out of which the real touch between two human beings could help to escape. Such an escape may happen not by means of morals or elevated matters but within the fuss of life’s filth, and despite it. As long as the play goes on, Hamlet and Galina try to have sex at a dress-change room right in the market. It is not comfortable there, so they move to medical-aid room, just because there is a bed there. And again, Galina is hampered by medicines’ smell, Hamlet beats her for being so capricious but they later drive to Hamlet’s flat. Then all of a sudden Galina’s favourite series begin over TV and she asks to postpone sex after it ends. They dumbly watch TV. Then Hamlet is listening to Putin’s speech until it is very late and until they both — very tired and unable to have any contact — intimate, personal, or any other — are ready to fall asleep. The more so, that their job at the market the next day starts at 7 a.m. This is when the miracle may happen — between sleep and wake, between being and non being, between man and woman. And it sort of happens.

Director: Pavel Arsenev

Dramatic poem: Keti Chukhrov

Actors: Vladislava Miloslavskaya and Petr Chizhov

Designer: Eugenia Myakisheva

Sound-design: Artem Stepanov

Spectacle’s page at «Access Point» festival website

Description on Goethe-Institut website

Event

Reated events:

26 july, Petersburg. Discussion «To be and to perform» with Pavel Arsenev and Keti Chukhrov

30 august, Riga. Pavel Arsenev’s lecture on contemporary experimental theater.

Event

Press:

Интервенция в городскую среду // Экран и сцена

Театр в натуре // Газета.ru

Введите свой текст…

Павел Арсеньев — Sat, 03 Jun 2017 11:15:20 +0000

Групповая выставка «Введите свой текст…»

Выставка «Введите свой текст…» — размышление о роли текста в произведениях современных художников. На выставке будут представлены работы 11 молодых авторов, особенностью которых так или иначе становится использование текста в визуальном искусстве.

Слово и текст сопровождают изображение с древнейших времен, постепенно логично соединяясь в рукописях, книгах, плакатах и т.д., но также проникая в, казалось бы, чуждую для себя сферу — живописного пространства. Беря свое начало в экспериментах авангарда, и достигнув наивысшей точки развития в концептуализме – включение текста в живопись не теряет актуальности до сих пор.

Объединив работы разных авторов, основной темой выставки станет вопрос — кто же они, эти молодые художники, для которых текст основа основ? Последователи концептуалистов, рефлексирующие над искусством его же средствами? Повзрослевшие граффитчики, поменявшие уличные стены на холсты? Современные поэты, создающие некий синтез искусств? Может быть, просто люди, ведущие дневник оригинальным способом?

И, наконец, вопрос, который встает не только перед зрителями, но и участниками и создателями выставки — что же это: вызов или провокация, недостаточность и исчерпанность живописных средств, следование традициями или подражание? Или же единственная возможность высказаться и быть услышанным?

Художники: Павел Арсеньев, Стас Багс, Митя Безыдейный, ЕлиКука,
Максим Има, Мария Крючкова, Кирилл Кто, Дарья Мацкевич, Семен Мотолянец, Тристан Рево, Валерий Чтак.

Куратор: Елизавета Воробьева

Группа текстового искусства

Интервью с куратором выставки «Введите свой текст…»

Spasm of Accomodation (Berkeley, 2017)

Павел Арсеньев — Mon, 17 Apr 2017 07:31:15 +0000

Pavel Arsenev. Spasm of Accomodation (Berkeley: Commune Editions, 2017)

California:

April 19th: Commune Books reading: Pavel Arsenev and Nanni Balestrini. Begining 19.30

April 26th: University of California Berkeley (Dwinelle Hall, Room 3335).Begining 17:30

April 27th: Stanford University (William R. Hewlett Teaching Center 201). Begining 18.30

New York:

May 1st: Night of Anarchist Culture. Begining 20.00

May 3rd: n+1 headquarters. Begining 19.30

Neuro Sync Poetry

Павел Арсеньев — Sun, 16 Apr 2017 14:46:39 +0000

Experimental interactive performance with synchronisation of neuro-interfaces of two artists — poet and musician — while one of them reading his poetry and the other one is improvising with instruments.

Публикация в kloaka (Братислава) и выставка в Hybernska (Прага)

Павел Арсеньев — Mon, 10 Apr 2017 19:46:43 +0000

В свежем выпуске журнала экспериментального и неконвенционального творчества kloaka (Братислава) опубликовано интервью с Павлом Арсеньевым и подборка поэтических текстов в переводе на словацкий.

kloaka 1/2017 (PDF, 16.8 MB)

Также в апреле выставкой «Город и эмоции» в центре Праги открылось новое пространство Hybernska с ассоциированными исследователями и художниками, которое в будущем станет частью Карлова Университета.

В рамках выставки была представлена документация серии «Фрагменты идеологического серфинга» (Москва, 2015)

Publications in scientific reviews

Павел Арсеньев — Tue, 01 Apr 2014 13:12:43 +0000

From poetic actions to unidentified literary objects : the evolution of politically active poetry during last post-soviet decade // Marco Sabbatini (eds.), The Vicissitudes of Texts. Samizdat, Censorship, Tamizdat (Write Up Books, forthcoming in 2026)

Walter Benjamin’s Reception of the East: Mediating Tret’iakov’s Operative Practice // Caroline Adler and Sophia Buck (eds), Walter Benjamin in the European East: Networks, Conflicts, and Reception (Routledge, forthcoming)

« D’où parle-t-on » ? La géoposition de la parole entre l’imaginaire discursif et les ruptures communicatives (dialogue avec Anna Zaitseva) // Langues et discours face à la guerre en Ukraine, Vol. 1, Institut des études slaves (forthcoming in 2026).

The Radio of the Future and Futurist Poets as its First Enginеers // Komodo 21, N°19 / Voix sur les ondes (2024).

The Tactic of Linguistic Exile between Political Emergency and Poetological Programme // Free Voices in USSR (english) / Voci Liberi in URSS (italiano)

« Je ne puis me taire ! » – À propos d’une rencontre entre Tolstoï et un phonographe // ILCEA, 53 (2024).

How to learn not to write poetry (text-performance) // Internationale Zeitschrift für Kulturkomparatistik. vol. 12 (2024)

It was poetry until it was no more : On New Temporality and Media- context of the Contemporary Cultural Movement // Smola Klavdia (dir.). (Counter-)Archive: Memorial Practices of the Soviet Underground, Palgrave, 2024, p 477–507.

The Forest behind the Trees: Biological Bias in Literary Criticism from Formalism to Moretti // Russian Literature, Vol. 122–123 (2021), special Issue: Digital Humanities and Russian and East European Studies. P. 67-83.

Sergey Tretyakov between Literary Positivism and the Pragmatic Turn // Russian Literature, Vol. 103-104 (2019). P. 41-59.

“The Contemporary Russian Poet Comes Out and Sorta Drops Us a Hint»: Toward a Pragmatics of the Artistic Utterance // Russian Studies in Literature Vol. 54 № 1-3 (2018). P. 141-153.

Los viajes a China de Sergei Tretiakov: la captura poética de la realidad en el camino hacia la literatura-fakta (coautor con Aleksei Kosyj, traducción por Ana Sol Alderete, revisión y corrección por Valeria Zuzuk) // Revista Etcétera №2 (año 2018)

State of emergency Literature. Varlam Shalamov vs. ‘all progressive humanity’ // The Literary Field under Communist Rule. Academic Studies Press (Boston, 2018)

La littérature du fait d’énonciation : un tournant pragmatique de l’avant-garde russe passé inaperçu // Ligeia. Dossiers sur l’Art N° 157-160 (2017)

In Russian