Grant for researchers writing on contemporary art in russian Garage.txt

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Garage Museum of Contemporary Art continues its GARAGE.txt program of support for contemporary art and culture research and announces a new call for grant applications from researchers.

GARAGE.txt is Russia’s first long-term museum initiative supporting academic research in art and culture. The program offers funding for new projects by Russian and international researchers writing in the Russian language, as well as opportunities to publish completed manuscripts. Garage will accept applications with original studies in the history and theory of art in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, aesthetics, new media theory, the sociology of culture, critical theory, and the history of Russian contemporary art. The text should not exceed 320,000 characters.

Application deadline: November 19, 2018

REQUIREMENTS

Garage will accept applications from authors of over the age of twenty-five and of all nationalities, who write in the Russian language.

AWARDED GARAGE GRANTS

Anna Kozonina (dance critic, co-founder of the publishing program at Krasnaya Lastochka Lab) with the study Art Strategies in Russian Post Dance;

Katarina Lopatkina (independent curator, doctoral candidate in art history) with To Influence the Minds and Will of Workers, in Particular Through Contemporary Art. International Artists in the USSR 1920s—1950s;

Alena Sokolnikova (lecturer at British Higher School of Art and Design, doctoral candidate in pedagogy) and Natalya Sokolnikova (Professor at Moscow State University of Education) with the project From Art to Production and Back. Design as Soviet Women’s Path to Creative Liberation.

In addition, Garage supported the publication of Viacheslav Koleichuk’s Kineticism. The new edition of the book was put forward by the artist’s daughter Anna Koleichuk.

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