This presentation will highlight the continuity in Siegelaub’s various endeavors, more specifically the way in which he harnessed a series of writing and archiving methods to ensure the posterity of art and ideas.
Turchina has embarked on an experimental archival reconstruction to reveal previously unnoticed aspects of the career and thinking of nonconformist artist Mikhail Chernyshov. Drawing on the archive of collector Leonid Talochkin, an inveterate chronicler, the project is akin to analyzing metadata, mining his index cards, lists of exhibition loans, the meticulous pages of his diaries, and long, private correspondence with Chernyshov to create a different picture of this elusive artist.