Анти-шоу. АПТАРТ как искусство взаимодействия ("Anti-Shows. APTART as the Art of Interaction.")

Published in Искусствознание (Art Studies Magazine). Translated by Sophia Krynskaya.

The text deals with the concept of “anti-shows” — experimental non-exhibitions held as part of the APTART (“apartment art”) project, a collective project and laboratory of the Moscow conceptualists that existed from 1982 to 1984. The author considers such binaries of 1980s culture as official-unofficial, art-life, public-private, collective- individual, as well as categories of interaction, DIY-practice, institutionalization, the viewer and the market in the context of a closed art community. The text was written as a preface to the book Anti-Shows: APTART 1982–84 (London: Afterall Books in Association with the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, 2017), compiled by Margarita and Victor Tupitsyn and based on archive materials from their collection. This version of the text was published in e-flux journal (No. 81, April 2017) and is reprinted with the kind permission of the author, Margarita and Victor Tupitsyn and e-flux journal .