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Norra Sidan Norra TheCosmism: Miracle Anton in Tensta Vidokle (Theoria) andA new Arseny film by Zhilyaev Magnus Bärtås at11.6 Tensta –28.9 konsthall2014 30.10 2018–13.1 2019 Norra Sidan översätt Konica Minolta 1 Cosmism: Anton Vidokle It is not the holistic, Christian mysticism and Arseny Zhilyaev mixed with transcendental materialism at Tensta konsthall that makes cosmism curiously 30.10 2018–13.1 2019 interesting at this moment; rather it is the idea that at the same time as Three poetic films by artist Anton some things change dramatically, others Vidokle play on the connections between remain constant. Perhaps today we can nineteenth-century Orthodox Christian think of it in terms of the significant philosopher Nikolai Fyodorov’s (1829- difference between the bursting kind of 1903) ideas of resurrection of all the energy that Russia experienced in the dead, capitalist and socialist cosmic years around 1918 and a sort of “slow” expansion, flows of energy and con- energy. Slow energy is dispersed¬– it temporary transhumanist theories. seeps and trickles rather than gushes The trilogy weaves together the life of forth. Nowadays the former can be post-Soviet citizens and the futurologi- discerned in engaged, localised work cal projects of Russian Cosmism to em- done by all kinds of people, ranging from phasize that the goal of the early Soviet activists and academics to workers and breakthroughs aimed at the conquest of artists, who in many places seem to outer space was not so much technical move towards soft mobilization, alliances acceleration, but the common cause of and other ways of interlinking. humankind in their struggle against the limitations of earthly life. The exhibition The institution of the museum also also includes a new installation by artist played a central role in Russian Arseny Zhilyaev whose work takes a Cosmism, as the remains needed for the more fictional approach to cosmism. resurrection of individuals would have to A large circular table displays a wide be preserved there. Fyodorov, like the range of publications on cosmism painter and founder of Suprematism, to date. Architects Nikolaus Hirsch Kazimir Malevich (1879-1935), believed and Michel Müller have designed the that after the death of God, the museum exhibition space. would be the only place where a transhistorical union beyond the grave Cosmism is the eccentric theory of was possible. Another fascination of the universal emancipation translated into cosmists was with science, technology eternal life for all human beings who and outer space. Their theories became have ever lived. According to cosmism, a major influence on Soviet space death is a mistake that should be research and exploration. overcome. If the achievement of true social equality is the goal, then eternal Arseny Zhilyaev’s new installation is a life must be given all. Like energy, museological altar of sorts, used by a human life should be indestructible and future space sect. The title, Laborer of always evolving. More space will be the Sun, refers to the replacement of needed and new living conditions must icons by solar panels and the conden- be considered for the vast amounts of sation of Malevich’s Black Square into individuals: those who have lived before, the black crystals of these solar panels. those who are alive now and those who It also represents a holy communion will be born in the future. Spaceships with the beginnings of the universe. In and other planets will be necessary for this speculative future, humans have this expansion. Here, the energy of love spread into outer space, abandoning will flourish, as the expected overcoming Earth. However, humans occasionally of sexual distinctions will mean a return to visit museums where the tremendous release of energy. A sort of historical archives of humanity’s past unification will then take place with God, are preserved. Drawing from research the creator of “the cosmos.” on museological motifs of the Russian artistic avant-garde at the turn of the last century, Zhilyaev parodies the institution of the future while 2 considering ideas put forth in Russian cosmos was not limited to outer space: Cosmism by Fyodorov. Zhilyaev is the rather, they set out to create “cosmos,” editor of a volume on radical museology or harmonious and eternal life, on Earth. of the early years of the Soviet Union, The ultimate goal, as illuminated in the including texts by Fyodorov and other short film, was “to construct a new influential voices active at that time. reality, free of hunger, disease, violence, death, need, and inequality – like In his project Immortality for All: A Film communism.” Trilogy on Russian Cosmism, Anton Vidokle probes cosmism’s influence on Anton Vidokle the twentieth century and suggests its The Communist Revolution relevance to the present day. In part Was Caused By The Sun one he returns to the foundations of 2015, 33:36 min cosmist thought (This Is Cosmos, 2014). Russian with English subtitles Part two explores the links between The second part of the trilogy looks cosmology and politics (The Communist at the poetic dimension of solar Revolution Was Caused By The Sun, cosmology of Soviet biophysicist, 2015) and part three restages the Alexander Chizhevsky (1897-1964). museum as a site of resurrection, a Shot in Kazakhstan, where Chizhevsky central cosmist idea (Immortality and was imprisoned and later exiled, the Resurrection for All!, 2017). Combining film introduces Сhizhevsky’s research essay, documentary, and performance, into the impact of solar emissions Vidokle quotes from the writings of on human sociology, psychology, cosmism’s founder Nikolai Fyodorov politics and economics in the form and other philosophers and poets. His of wars, revolutions, epidemics and wandering camera searches for traces other upheavals. The film aligns the of cosmist influence in the remains life of post-Soviet rural residents and of Soviet-era art, architecture and the futurological projects of Russian engineering, moving from the steppes Cosmism to emphasize that the goal of of Kazakhstan to the museums of the early Soviet breakthroughs aimed Moscow. Music by John Cale and Éliane at the conquest of outer space was not Radigue accompanies these haunting so much technical acceleration, but the images, conjuring up the yearning for common cause of humankind in their connectedness, social equality, material struggle against limitations of earthly transformation and immortality at the life. heart of cosmist thought. Anton Vidokle Anton Vidokle This Is Cosmos Immortality and Resurrection for All! 2014, 28:10 min 2017, 34:17 min Russian and with English subtitles Russian with English subtitles Shot in Siberia and Kazakhstan, as The trilogy’s last part is a meditation on well as Moscow and Archangelsk a museum as the site of resurrection – a regions, the first film in the trilogy central idea for many Cosmist thinkers, on Russian Cosmism comprises of a scientists and avant-garde artists. collage of ideas from the movement’s Filmed at the State Tretyakov Gallery, diverse protagonists, including founding Moscow Zoological Museum, the Lenin philosopher Nikolai Fyodorov. Fyodorov, Library and the Museum of Revolution, among others, believed that death was the film looks at museological and a mistake – a flaw in the overall design archival techniques of collection, resto- of the human, “because the energy of ration and conservation as a means of cosmos is indestructible, because true the material restoration of life following religion is a cult of ancestors, because true an essay penned by Nikolai Fyodorov on social equality is immortality for all.” For this subject in 1880s. The film follows a the Russian Cosmists, the definition of cast comprised of present-day followers Konica Minolta 3 of Fyodorov, several actors, artists and A conversation with Anton Vidokle, a Pharaoh Hound that playfully enact Arseny Zhilyaev and Maria Lind a resurrection of a mummy, a close examination of Malevich’ Black Square, Maria Lind: Cosmism can be described Alexander Rodchenko’s (1891-1956) as an almost forgotten Russian spatial constructions, taxidermied ani- philosophy, which has had a significant mals, artifacts of the Russian Revolution, impact on culture and society in both skeletons and mannequins in tableau Russia and the Soviet Union. What is vivant-like scenes in order to create a your elevator pitch on this complex contemporary visualization for the poetry theory? implicit in Fyodorov’s theories. Anton Vidokle: Cosmism advocates Arseny Zhilyaev technological immortality for all, The Laborer of the Sun material resurrection of everyone who Solar panels, wallpaper has ever lived, and travel and life in Arseny Zhilyaev’s installation is a cosmos. I think revisiting its ideas is fictionalized museum reconstruction tremendously important now, because of an altar by a space sect from the with all the advances in biotechnology, not so distant future. Such sects arose artificial intelligence, genetics, robotics in remote space colonies and lost and so forth, some form of extreme space ships. Often instead of icons longevity or perhaps even immortality they used solar panels called the appears now to be on the horizon of “laborers of the sun.” According to technological possibilities. However, an the legend, through the absorption of extremely individualistic and neoliberal visible light and the transformation of model currently shapes contemporary it into energy, the “laborer” performed thinking about this, and if successful a ritual of communion with the divine it will probably result in a kind of elite beginning of the universe. As in most class of immortal billionaires, while of Zhilyaev’s works, The Laborer of the the rest of humanity will live with Sun represents an imagined art of the deteriorating conditions and shrinking future, which in this case, distinctively life spans. This would mean immortality has its roots in modernism. Malevich’s for the few and more misery for the rest radical reduction in the Black Square is of us.
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