1996. Documentary film about Moscow radical art of 90-s.

Martynova Aliona. 1996 "My Private Life Does Not Concern Me". Curator N.Zaretskaya. TV Gallery in CAC. Moscow
Martynova Aliona.Happening "Plastic Operation". Moscow
Martynova Aliona. Happening "Beauty Will Conquer the World". Yard of Moscow University. Moscow
performance "Visiting Presidents"
Oleg Mavromatti. King’s Piros Victory - together with Emperor Vava, International Chess Federation, Moscow (1996)
Oleg Mavromatti. 1minute silence - Radio Moscow Echo, On air, together with Emperor Vava, Moscow (1996)
Oleg Kulik. 1996. Dog House. Fargfabriken, Stockholm, 2 March 1996
Oleg Kulik. 1996. "Not by Word but by Flesh". Revolution Museum, Moscow
Oleg Kulik. 1996. "Suspended". Kunstlerhaus Betanien, Berlin, Germany
Oleg Kulik. 1996. Pan European Art Manifestation "Manifesta" ("Pavlov’s Dog"). Rotterdam, Holland Museum Van Hedendaagste Kunst, Gent, Belgium. jpg1, jpg2
Oleg Kulik. 1996. "I Love Europe with an Unrequited Love". Kunstlerhaus Betanien, Berlin, Germany
Oleg Kulik. 1996. "My Place in Art". NBK, Berlin, Germany
Oleg Kulik. 1996. "An Ironclad for your Show". Museum of Contemporary Show, Gent, Belgium
Oleg Kulik. 1996. Police Dog. Rozentol night club, Moscow. 20 February 1996

"Emergency Exit", Reserve Palace, Tsarskoye Selo

http://www.escapeprogram.ru/english/members/liza/l10.htm

1996, MJPEG, 3 min. A parody on a music clip with the participation of two famous Russian action artists - Oleg Kulik and Alexander Brener.

Oct. 31, 1996
After about the third speech I began to nod off, but I was roused by the apparition of a man in a Batman T-shirt who stormed the conference yelling "Batman forever!" while swinging a whirring toy, lasso style over his head. Everyone sat in stunned silence until he proceeded to squirt our distinguished hosts in the face with a water gun. As he was being "escorted" out, he threw a handful of flyers into the air which urged everyone to boycott the fair so as not to support an "corrupt elite art mafia." The unrest that resulted from this heroic interruption, performed by Moscow artist Alexander Brener (who has made an even worse fuss before, at the "Interpol" exhibition in Fargfabriken in Stockholm-- see Raphael Rubenstein's report in the April 1996 Art in America)
berlin art diary by Mary E. Goldman
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Lisa Morozova, "A Place for Performance". Oct. 1996.



IV St. Petersburg International Biennale SPATIA NOVA St. Petersburg History Museum "A Place for Performance" Performance - installation - object
Materials: Black card, white gouache, stand for a text, Polaroid camera with a set of photosensitive plates.
Action:
On the floor there is a black paper circle 2 meters diameter with the inscription “A Place for Performance”.
I bring in a stand with a text and put it within the circle.
I go off to the side and photograph everything that is happening in the space of “A Place for Performance”.
I hand round pictures to the spectators. The rest of the pictures on the special stand, I install into the space of “A Place for Performance”.
Duration: 30 minutes."
http://www.escapeprogram.ru/english/members/liza/l15.htm

Suspended. Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, 23 May 1996
The artist was hung high over the ground, balanced with a cage full of books. Spectators had to pull a rope to get the artist closer to themselves. The books went up and became unavailable. Kulik explained: 'To be suspended is to inquire for sense. Culture has repressed the nature of human beings. A man is an animal first of all. And then he is a Social animal, a Political animal and so on. I am an Art animal, that's why, spectator, I need your physical and psychological efforts to make sense

Dog House. Fargfabriken, Stockholm, 2 March 1996



It was suggested that Kulik produce his Dog House project within Interpol , an exhibition devoted to the problem of communication. The artist was invited as a sort of ready-made to stay in a specially built house. The audience was warned that any communication with the artist, who denounced the language of culture, was dangerous and that no one should cross the borders of his territory. Following the logic of this action Kulik bit a Mr. Lindquist who had neglected the warning. Kulik was arrested by the Swedish police. This performance and the exhibition as a whole aroused scandalous response from the media. Interpol was called an event that divided the art world into East and West. Kulik published an explanation of his action in response to demands made by the exhibition's curators. (See his letter entitled Why I Have Bitten a Man)

The sepia hairy Wenda Gu still centred, acts like a central point to it all. Brener is setting up a drumkit, so obviously he's going to bang away. The "Purple Prose" gang is here to get the Interpol prize instigated by Cattelan as an art project Y hmm, well, alright.
http://www.ljudmila.org/interpol/intro3.htm


I started my drum performance and then destroyed Wenda Gu's installation. Why his? In my view, it was a symbol of this collapsed and failed project under the idiotic name Y Interpol.
Alexander Brener. Ticket that Exploded
http://www.ljudmila.org/interpol/intro2.htm

The night before artist Gutov invited everyone to a dinner which was a part of his project. The plan of the dinner was to discuss the preliminary results of the Interpol. Everyone kept silet. I stood up and said that the project had been transformed beyond recognition and that, essentially, it had failed. The only response that came was a weak statement by Borut Volgelnik. The dinner was eaten and bottles were emptied.--http://www.ljudmila.org/interpol/intro2.htm
Alexander Brener. Ticket that Exploded
http://www.ljudmila.org/interpol/intro2.htm

Oleg Kulik. I Can Not Keep Silence Any More, Strasbourg. September 20

Kunstlerhaus Betanien, Berlin, Germany

1996. Pan European Art Manifestation "Manifesta" Rotterdam, Holland Museum Van Hedendaagste Kunst, Gent, Belgium