A conversation on the strategy of strangeness in art and the way it grows into reality.
The tour will focus on the «strangeness» of artists as a practice of resistance in unfavorable conditions. The key protagonists will include the founder of Necrorealism Yevgeny Yufit, composer Oleg Karavaychuk, the characters from the project Whites invented by Factory of Found Clothes. and the master of transformation Vladislav Mamyshev-Monroe. One of the key words for the meeting is vnenakhodimost or «outsideness,» a term that anthropologist Alexey Yurchak used to describe the relationship between the Soviet people and the Soviet state in its last decades. During the tour, it will be used in a broader metaphorical sense to discuss how artists can use the absurd, irony, opaqueness, hollowness, elusiveness, and mimicry in their art and in life.