Round Table "Beautiful Losers:" The Effects of Cancellations and Non-Completion in Art

Anastasia Vepreva (b. 1989, Arkhangelsk) is an artist, curator and critic. She is a historian by education and holds MA degrees from the Department of Liberal Arts of St. Petersburg State University and Bard College (New York). Her art is focused of speculative and fictional approaches to memory politics and a critical exploration of new technology. She is the editor of K.R.A.P.I.V.A website and has contributed texts to Moscow Art Magazine, DI, Colta.ru, Aroundart, and Art Leaks Gazette. Vepreva is a winner of a Garage grant for contemporary artists (2019–2020). She lives and works in St. Petersburg.

Anastasia Kizilova (b. 1986, Leningrad) is an artist and sci-fi writer. She graduated in Costume Design from St. Petersburg Stieglitz State Academy of Art and Design in 2010, PRO ARTE School for Young Artists (St. Petersburg) in 2015, and BAZA Institute (Moscow) in 2016. She currently works in ecological communication with a focus on posthumanist interaction, combining theory and practice in, for example, the making of a collective interspecies body. Since 2016 she has been working on FOUND OBJECT, an archive of unfinished art projects to which she encourages artists to donate their ideas anonymously so that someone else can work on them. She lives and works in St. Petersburg.

Vladimir Seleznev (b. 1973, Nizhny Tagil) is an artist and curator whose work is often focused on locality, local memory, and regional identities. As a curator, he collaborates with non-professional artists and non-artists. He is a winner of the Innovation Prize (Best Artist, 2019) and the Sergey Kuryokhin Prize (Best Curating Project, 2019). He lives and works in Yekaterinburg.