"It is high time to comprehend this process of walking and creating, which some vulgarizers give a trite name of a walk.<…> We should, no, we must give some loading to every human walking unit, and this unit, comrades, shall make a great walking work."
Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov.The Laughing Unit.
Garage Center for Contemporary Culture presents an education program Adventures of the Walking Unit within the exhibition Temporary Architecture of Gorky Park: from Melnikov to Ban. The program includes a series of lectures, tours and activities for families.
20 October - 9 December 2012
Garage Centre of Contemporary Culture offers to have a walk through time and accompanied by our lecturers to find answers to the following questions: What did people see in the parks in the 1920s and 1930s? What defines temporary architecture? How has the park shaped the way visitors behave? How does the park suggest contemporary change, and why? And finally, what does the ‘very process of walking and creating’ mean?
The series of lectures will be presented by well-known theorists and architectural historian, experts in modern urban space and specialists in the art of the 20-30s of the last century, such as: Gilles Clément, Tatyana Voroncova, Boris Pasternak, Marina Khrustaleva, Nikolai Malinin, Maria Fadeeva, Evert Verkhagen. The participants of the "Pig-pile" discussion will debate about the phenomenon of the park using both words and images. Tours for adults will be held daily within the exposition. There will also be three exhibition tours given by renowned art historians and historians of architecture Alexey Petukhov, Aleksandra Selivanova and Irina Chepkunova.
Authors: Kira Kheifets, Evgenia Mikhina, Anastasia Mityushina, Ekaterina Vladimirtseva
SCHEDULE:
LECTURE SERIES
Friday 2 November, 20:00, Garden in motion, Gilles Clément
Saturday 3 November, 20:00, Gorky Park, 1920s-1930s: A Vanished Planet, Boris Pasternak
Thursday 8 November, 20:00, Kinopravda Archi-truths, Boris Pasternak
Friday 16 November, 20:00, The Attractive city, Evert Verhagen and Marina Khrustaleva
Thursday 22 November, 20:00, Architecture is Nearby, Nikolai Malinin and Maria Fadeeva
Thursday 29 November, 20:00 The first exhibition of the Soviet Union, or Who Treated Bulgakov to a ‘shashlik’?, Tatyana Vorontsova
Friday 7 December, 20:00, A History of Mobility, Maria Savostyanova
Saturday 8 December, 15:00, The Roadside Picnic vs. The Luncheon on the Grass, Maria Privalova and Peter Mancilla Cruz
EXHIBITION TOURS
Sunday 28 October, 17:00, Soviet Antiquity in the Park: Athletes and Soviet Record-Breakers, Aleksandra Selivanova and Alexey Petukhov
Sunday 11 November, 17:00, The 1923 Exhibition: The Protagonists, Irina Chepkunova
Sunday 25 November 2012, 17:00, The Laughing Unit. Entertainments in Gorky Park Prewar, Aleksandra Selivanova and Alexey Petukhov
Admission is free.
Venue: Shigeru Ban pavilion in Gorky Park, 9, Krymsky Val
