Garage announces participants of the 2021 iteration of Single Copy

Photo: Rostan Tavasiev, CAPOS (PN)­_0013, 2020
Pencil, paper, photo print
Courtesy of the artist

Garage Library has selected new artists to take part in Single Copy, a project which aims to foster the development of the artist’s book. Sergei Bespamyatnykh (Novosibirsk), Rostan Tavasiev (Moscow), and DVR Movement (Gornovodnoe, Primorsky Krai) will contribute to the project in 2021.

Launched in 2017, Single Copy aims to develop the medium of the artist’s book in Russia. Each year the unique publications produced by artists from a wide range of backgrounds are added to the Garage Library collection.

The presentation of books by Sergei Bespamyatnykh, Rostan Tavasiev, and DVR will take place in April 2021 as part of the Russia-wide Library Night, followed by a presentation in the Library’s reading room.

Previous project participants: Lyudmila Baronina, Haim Sokol, and Tatyana Faskhutdinova (2019) and Anastasia Albokrinova, Asya Marakulina, and Ivan Novikov (2020).

Sergei Bespamyatnykh (b. 1970, Chelyabinsk Region) graduated in Civil Engineering from Novosibirsk Institute of Architecture (1995). A member of the Union of Artists of Russia, he lives and works in Novosibirsk.

DVR Movement is an art group founded in Vladivostok in 2016, which currently involves 13 people. Rather than concentrating on specific media, DVR members work at the intersection of music, noise improvisation, performance, applied arts, and theater. The abbreviation in their name can be decoded in several ways (in Russian), including Far Eastern Female Separators, Far Eastern Republic (a state entity that served as a buffer between Soviet Russia and Japan in 1920–1922), and Daughters of Faithful Parents. In 2020, the group was awarded the Innovation Prize (New Generation nomination). DVR participants live and work in the village of Gornovodnoe (Primorsky Krai).

Rostan Tavasiev (b. 1976, Moscow) studied at the Stroganov Moscow State University of Arts and Industry and the Institute of Contemporary Art in Moscow. His practice explores the interaction of art and science fiction. Since 2016, Tavasiev has been researching possibilities for the creation of artworks in outer space. He lives and works in Moscow.