Russia - Art Resistance and the Conservative-Authoritarian Zeitgeist

Lena Jonson is a Senior Associate Research Fellow at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs. Andrei Erofeev is a widely published art historian, curator, and former head of the contemporary art section of the Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia.

1. Introduction, Lena Jonson

Part I: The Conservative Zeitgeist and Russian Cultural Policy

2. The "Russian World", Genetically Modified Conservatism, or Why Culture Matters, Ilya Kalinin

3. The New State Cultural Policy and Visual Art, Lena Jonson

4. Neo-traditional Fits with Neo-liberal Shifts in Russian Cultural Policy since 2010, Alexander Bikbov

5. Daughterland [Rodina-Doch]: Contemporary Russian Messianism and Neo-conservative Visuality, Maria Engström

6. The Case of Hungary - a Parallel Development, Eszter Babarczy

Part II: The State of Affairs: Voices from the Russian Art Scene

7. Culture as the Enemy: Contemporary Russian Art under the Authoritarian Regime, Andrei Erofeev

8. Voices from within the Art Scene. Interviews with Russian Artists, Andrei Erofeev and Irina Kochergina

Part III: Artistic Counter-Strategies

9. Dissensus and "Shimmering": Tergiversation as Politics, Daniil Leiderman

10. Humor as a Bulletproof Vest: Artists Embracing an Ironic Zeitgeist, Helena Goscilo

11. Demontage of Attractions, Stanislav Shuripa and Anna Titova

12. The Chto Delat School for Engaged Art and Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, Jonathan Platt

13. A Dilemma for the Contemporary Artist: "Revolutionary Pessimism" of Roman Osminkin, Mark Lipovetsky

14. Radical Art Actionism, Andrei Erofeev

15. Petr Pavlenskii and his Actions", Per-Arne Bodin

16. Document: Pavlenskii and Yasman: Dialogues about Art, Artist Petr Pavlenskii and Investigator Pavel Yasman

Part IV: Theatre: A Parallel Development

17. Theatre of a Period of Archaization, Pavel Rudnev

18. Non-conformist Theatre in Russia: Past and Present, Kristina Matvienko