Lessons in World Artistic Culture is a podcast about contemporary non-fiction from the Publishing Department at Garage.
Each episode covers subjects that would be unlikely to find a place in the school program, but which could comprise an alternative World Artistic Culture course.
The presenters are lecturer, editor, and researcher into gender and historical trauma Katya Suverina and critic, researcher, and artist’s books specialist Valeriy Ledenev. Together with the authors they discuss texts published by Garage.
In the first season, the presenters discuss avant-garde cinematography and modernist architecture, images of women in Soviet art, the creation of museum collections, and the «Soviet incredible.» The season’s guests are Naum Kleiman, Anna Bronovitskaya and Nikolay Malinin, Nadezhda Plungian, Katarina Lopatkina, and Alexey Konakov.
The second season covers contemporary design and postcolonial theory, women’s artistic training and alternative pedagogy, and how cultural life in Russian has changed over the past 15 years. The season’s guests are Maria Savostyanova, Anton Iskhanov, Olesya Avramenko and Galina Leonova, Oksana Moroz, Yuri Saprykin, and Tatyana Shishkova.
The podcast is recorded in Russian.
Project team
Presenters: Valeriy Ledenev, Katya Suverina
Producers: Zhenya Kuptsova, Marina Romanova
Composer and sound director: Yura Todorov
Cover designer: Nikita Mikhin