Garage Archive Collection staff members Antonina Trubitsyna and Anastasia Kotyleva and members of self-organized art initiatives will gather in New Holland Lecture Hall to discuss the metamorphoses experienced by self-organizations in St. Petersburg.
Antonina Trubitsyna will talk about the results of a long-term research project initiated by Garage Archive Collection, as part of which over 100 self-organizations from across Russia—from Kaliningrad to Vladivostok—were studied and described. External experts, including sociologist Margarita Kuleva and curator Elena Ishchenko, were invited to take part in the interpretation of results alongside Garage staff. The final stage of the project was the publication of the book Open Systems. Self-Organized Art Initiatives in Russia, 2000–2020 at the beginning of 2021.
Independent curator and Garage Archive Collection staff member Anastasia Kotyleva will share her view of the development of Russian self-organizations. The founders of St. Petersburg self-organizations with long and multifaceted histories have been invited to discuss the background to this movement and its outcomes. They include artist Anna Averyanova, who is co-coordinator at the School of Engaged Art, a participant in the self-organization Rosa’s House of Culture, and an engineer at niichegodelat; Alexander Belov, co-founder of Bobby Gallery and Paideia School and host of the YouTube channel Seryozno i Vseryoz; artist, curator, researcher of marginal culture, and founder of Luda Gallery Peter Belyi; artist, curator, co-organizer of Studio 4413 and THIS IS HERE Maria Dmitrieva; artist Alexander Tsikarishvili, curator of the online resource kunsthalle nummer Sieben and co-founder of North-7 Group; and artist and independent curator Tanya Chernomordova, co-founder of the exhibition space kunsthalle nummer sieben.