Garage Museum of Contemporary Art announces the continuation of the GARAGE.txt program of support for research in the field of contemporary art and culture and a new call for grant applications.
GARAGE.txt is the only museum initiative in Russia that supports academic research across a wide range of subjects in the humanities. It offers funding for new projects and opportunities to publish completed manuscripts and research projects by authors of any nationality writing in Russian.
Projects should comprise original research by individual or joint authors on subjects pertaining to the history and theory of twentieth- and twenty-first-century art, aesthetics, new media theory, the sociology of culture, the critical theory of contemporaneity, cultural anthropology, decolonial studies, and the history of Russian contemporary art.
«Even the most specialized study of culture can have general value, primarily because it demonstrates the persistent complexity, intricacy, multivalent, and sometimes contradictory nature of human society (thought, language, life—underline as appropriate). Awareness of such complexity and inconsistency is especially important during periods of crisis, when the temptation of schematic, dichotomous thinking (unequivocally dividing the world into black and white, friends and enemies) increases many times over. «Simplicity does not exist, “ as all honest studies of culture tell us, thereby contributing to the relaxation of morals. However, any researcher knows perfectly well that simplicity exists not only in culture and life in general but often in particular cases such as making results public and communicating them to a mass audience. That is why the GARAGE.txt grant program, which helps authors publish their work, is a chance that should not be missed.» Alexey Konakov, recipient of a GARAGE.txt grant (2021)
To date Garage has published fourteen books by GARAGE.txt grant recipients:
2018
- Picasso’s Never Heard of Usby Vladimir Salnikov
- Cybernetics in Humanities and Arts in the USSR. Big Data Analysis and Computer Artby Yanina Prudenko
2019
- Bastards of Cultural Relations: International Artistic Contacts in the USSR, 1920–1950s by Katarina Lopatkina
- Eternity Is Endless Because It’s Reckless. Andrei Monastyrsky and Collective Actions by Victor Agamov-Typitsyn
- A Brief History of Street Art in Nizhny Novgorod by Alisa Savitskaya, Artem Filatov
2020
- А Medium for the Masses: Photomontage and the Optical Turn in Early Soviet Russia by Serguei Oushakine
- In Search of Lost Sound. Experimental Sound Culture in Russia and the USSR in the First Half of the Twentieth Century by Andrey Smirnov
2021
- Theatrum Mundi. Flexible Lexicon by Yulia Liderman, Valery Zolotukhin
- Strange Dances: The Theory and History of Dance-Performance in Russia by Anna Kozonina (published in the series GARAGE DANCE)
- An Open-Ended Story. Faces of Contemporary Russian Art by Andrey Kovalev
2022
- Waning World: A History of the «Incredible» in the Late USSR by Alexey Konakov
- Lydia Masterkova: The Right to Experiment by Margarita Masterkova-Tupitsyn
- The Birth of the Soviet Woman: The Worker, the Peasant, the Pilot, the «Former Person, ” and Other Women in Art, 1917–1939 by Nadezhda Plungian
- Herwarth Walden, Curator of the New Art. Life and Fate by Zinaida Bonami