Acknowledgements

Vladislav Kruchinsky

2018
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About the work

Acknowledgements are usually part of a scholarly monograph. While working on a dissertation about the contemporary history of the Republic of South Africa (Kruchinsky is a professional Africanist), Vladislav copied the acknowledgements from the sources he used and used them to compile a long and somewhat absurd text.

The narrative in Vladislav Kruchinsky’s book is that of scholar. We cannot say for sure who that person is or what are their interests. The narrative moves from standard acknowledgements to a reflection on the position of artists today, who have to live from grant to grant without any hope of making a living. The publication consists of brochures with a text in English and a series of drawings illustrating the adventures of the unknown character/scholar/artist Acknowledgements.

The text of Acknowledgements is printed in a separate brochure, to which are appended nine watercolor illustrations in mounts.

The book was created as part of the Garage Library project Single Copy.

About the artist

  • Vladislav Kruchinsky

    Year of birth: 1988
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    Vladislav Kruchinsky was born in Moscow. He graduated in Oriental and African Studies from the Russian State University for the Humanities (Moscow, 2010) and has a Candidate of Historical Sciences degree from the same university (2016). He works on the history and anthropology of South Africa. He teaches in the Department of Indo‑Iranian and African languages at Moscow State Institute of International Relations. From 2010 to 2019, he worked at the Center for Research into the Countries of Southern Africa of the Africa Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. From 2011 to 2013, he was a guest researcher at the University of Witwatersrand (Johannesburg) and in 2014 at the University of the Western Cape (Cape Town). In 2020, he ran a course on urban anthropology at the Higher School of Economics (Moscow).

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