The process for the exhibition "Forbidden Art 2006" is nearing completion

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[Konstantin]

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That b-m coherent articulation of what I think, to say WINE (formulation 3 E. Nadtochy (I?)):

And to the practices of desecration in the modern Christian world (such as those that varied manifestations of the Sakharov museum). This is a desecration - PRODUKTIVNOE.Produktivnoe from two perspectives: the production of civil and political relations to the long reduced to a cliche and commercialized Christian sivolizmu. And - to involve the central to the practice of recognized experience of the flesh "sweet sin." In any case - if there is something that can be characterized as a religious work of sacred art - so it is now a practice osskvernyayuschego sacred cliches of art. They display these plates and these rituals over kmotorymi so ridiculed same Tokstoy of automatism of perception, deavtomatiziruyut experience religious experience.

That is why it is so important in all (or many, I say be careful) religion special practices desecration of sacred symbols. Without this attitude to these characters lose their character, attitude toward, "" standing before "- more quickly and thrill.

Fear and trembling produce modern day artists profaners and priests and mullahs should thank the authors of such practices desecration. They are grateful. But according to rituals such appreciation can not be expressed in iinache reproach. Such vilification is the most vyokaya score deyatelnsoti contemporary artists insulters.

In general, all work in space and the space of the death of God - the only space today - at least - in the Christian world - producing religiosity and valid to this as donate, ie a meeting with others. Church etog porakticheski lost (except for certain charismatic sects). Ie today's art - the main meeting place with God - in the form of radical negativity, of course.

[SAH]

We are accustomed to charges of insulting religious symbols.

In the American patriots accuse those who mocked the American flag, sots-artists in Rosiii activists accuse the Orthodox, the same Islamic fundamentalists accused the Danish cartoonists, and Christian fanatics have tried not so long ago to ban a musical about Jesus Christ.

But last week it blew an unusual conflict - the Jewish community in London was made in the press to protest against the current exhibition at the Jewish Museum of Art Ben Uri. The fact that the theme of this exhibition - the image of the crucifixion in the works of artists of the twentieth century.

The exhibition visited columnist for the Fifth Floor "Zinovy Zinik. Impression he shared the lead with Michael Smotryaevym and guest programs, political analyst Masha Lipman.
An interesting discussion on this topic here (you should click плэй and listen) http://www.bbc.co.uk/russian/radio/r...crucifix.shtml where a 16-minute debate begins to change the subject.

[NEO]

And Pilate said about it and denounced recently?

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[Евгений]

In anticipation of a sentence to organizers of the exhibition "Forbidden Art-2006" Andrei Erofeev and Yuri Samodurov, the announcement is scheduled for Monday 12 July, the foreign press is discussing the relationship of art and the Russian Orthodox Church.
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The Economist, London, UK
Art custody. Church and State in Russia

"... Contemporary works of art can cause resentment, disproportionate to the force of his artistic value. In Russia, it can also symbolize the changing course of history. In 1962, Nikita Khrushchev denounced and banned avant-garde exhibition in Moscow, claiming that his grandson draw better. This marked the end of the short post-Stalin thaw and opened a period of stagnation ...

After nearly 50 years, Russian prosecutors need to condemn the organizers of the exhibition of contemporary art in Moscow for three years' imprisonment. The court's decision, which must be issued on July 12, could have far-reaching effects on not only the exhibition itself. This decision may determine the balance of forces between the ultra-religious radicals and secular pragmatists in Russia ...
This is not the first time Mr. Samodurov gets into a difficult situation because of their work. Five years ago he was fined 100 thousand rubles for the organization of the exhibition "Caution, Religion". However, this time charged calls prison. If the judge is satisfied that requirement, Mr. Erofeev and Mr. Samodurov become the first people after the communist era, which put in jail for artistic expression ...
"It's hard to imagine that in a European country on such charges were tried renowned public personality"
Such a verdict would damage Russia's international reputation and make meaningless any talk about modernization. Maybe this is why Russian Minister of Culture Alexander Avdeev has criticized the criminal case. Patriarch Cyril did not speak out against the prosecution, which is committed on behalf of the church - even if the defendants are found guilty, it will damage the reputation of the church far more than any other show.

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The Daily Mail, London, UK
Devil's Empire is alive and well ...

"If you listen to foreign bankers, diplomats and publicists, which rotate in the highest circles of Moscow, may be a sense that in Russia everything is in order. They reason that if the enlightened leadership of President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's country has become a stable international partner. Painting comforting. But at the same time, unreal. Today, Russia's image Potemkin village - a sight very convincing, but in fact deeply deceptive ... Last week, prosecutors demanded the sentence to three years in prison, the museum director and one of the most famous in the country art. This is a fierce reminder of the vengeful, authoritarian and reactionary nature of the Russian state. Both are accused of "blasphemy" - an accusation hysterical wing of the ROC. This crime consisted in the fact that the acknowledged provocative exhibition of art banned ... mocked the ruling regime. It is hard to imagine that in a European country on such a charge was judged a famous person, but in Russia it can easily send to prison.

Die Zeit, Hamburg, Germany
Prosecution: blasphemy

"If the trial lasts too long, older women on the bench for the visitors with a rustle start rummaging in his bag in the flower. Time of meal: currants summer, muffins winter. These women in headscarves, who did not miss any of the 17 days of the hearing, and there are plenty of Orthodox spiritual food. They whisper psalms, until the bailiff asks: "Pray Silence!"; Pressed to the heart of the Bible or a guttural scream accused: "Shame!". Manages the group of believers in the court which hears the case of the exhibition "Forbidden Art", long-bearded priest ...
Such meetings Tagansky district court in Moscow look grotesque, but we are talking about very important things: freedom of the artist and self-censorship, moral freedom of speech and tolerant society. The subject of the claim - an exhibition held in March 2007 in the center of Sakharov. The then Curator of Contemporary Art of the Tretyakov Gallery Andrei Erofeev gathered under the title "Forbidden Art 2006" 24 works that the gallery director previously crossed from various exhibitions without explanation ...
"Troublesome artists should, as once under Brezhnev, to engage in self-realization only in the walls of his apartment"
Of course, now there is no censorship department, as in Soviet times. But ... during the second term of President Vladimir Putin the freedom of artists was once again limited to the narrow limits. That staff of the Ministry of Culture is not allowed to go to Paris of the 85 works collected at the exhibition Sots Art, the Russian customs detain works of art, such as collage with images of Putin, Pushkin and Christ. Most operate without censors directives from above ... The victims of censorship then are images of naked bodies, religious symbols, or officials, such as Putin ...

As director of public museums, as in Soviet times, are often people who have little understanding of art, but mastered the principles of the state hierarchy. Their main motive - fear of scandal, before the open discussion and fear to give their own incompetence. But unlike the Soviet system, orders from above does not come. And because they are still carefully avoid any risk, such as images naked breast or non-canonical images to icons.
The main opponents of Contemporary Art - an unstable union of Orthodox fundamentalists and nationalists. They destroy artwork or serves massive lawsuits. The followers of these ideologies feel threatened by the free, the controversial community ...
Many participants in the process by the plaintiff did not attend the exhibition, the organizers of which claim is made. The first time they saw the picture in the case materials in the hands of the prosecutor. Their goal - to close the center of Sakharov and impose on society's own moral views. According to them, uncomfortable artists should, as once under Brezhnev, to engage in self-realization only in the walls of his apartment.

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Joseph Backstein, director of the Institute of Contemporary Art. (Press Conference)
Questions:
1. What is the impact on the cultural community has made the process?
It turns out that regardless of the outcome of this particular process is likely to prosecute almost any cultural phenomenon by the intolerant and radical groups.
2. Regulated, or if so - how art is governed in democratic countries?
3. I understand that in today's world, art is very closely connected with the law (copyright, etc.), respectively in the world should be to resolve the accumulated experience and such conflict situations.
Joseph Backstein:
1. Ironically, he helped consolidate the artistic environment, which understood the full extent of the danger that entails the process itself, especially if the court decision would be accusatory in nature. That is, politically, legally and in terms of development of civil society in our country - a process that forced all players at this stage to determine its position, this was an absolute sense. At the same time all the characters, including on the art scene, felt the danger of this history, and is now an understanding that after this process, any exhibition falls into a zone of risk, because any work of art can cause someone fairly sharp and negative reactions. Even any landscape may offend (eg, my sense of nature) and also cause some potential legal implications.

This process, of course, had negative consequences, the very fact of the prosecution. On the other hand, it contributed to the consolidation of civil society in its broadest sense and consolidation of groups and institutions very artistic environment.

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2. I must say that is regulated in a very wide range, very often the public protests against this or that works. For example, the work of Robert Mapplethorpe provoked mass protests in America, works by Andres Serrano caused very sharp protests and the general public and religious activists. It was all predictable, and the artist, in particular, Andres Serrano (I talked to him about this), he realized that he creates quite provocative work. For example, our colleague Anda Rotenberg, director of the gallery "Zachęta, was fired for being on one of the exhibitions, which she curated, exhibited the work of Maurizio Cattelan," Dad and meteorite. There was a figure of the pope, who was as if struck by a meteorite, had flown from the sky.

So, in fact, in different countries, depending on what the status of a religion in this country, the response of law enforcement agencies and the public is absolutely different. Sometimes it takes an active, if not aggressive. But the criminal cases I do not remember, I asked colleagues and I do not have such examples, apart from this history with Brener, of which I have mentioned. But it was really just a punishable act, he was charged with hooliganism, but the fact that it was a performance - it is an internal matter personally Brener and most artistic environment.

3. With regard to fine art, then all is far more complex than the theater, movies, music or literature, because of the uncertainty and fuzziness of criteria of quality and professionalism of works of art and cultural activities. Disputes concerning the solvency of even such classics as Ilya Kabakov, not to mention Kazimir Malevich, are still and will still be long enough. In the words of my colleagues and I - to explain why some spots of color are brilliant and worth millions, while others thought them to color stains are not worth anything and artistic values are not - it is very difficult. There were many disputes about the performances of Oleg Kulik!

Therefore, it is art, because its subject matter very broadly interpreted and includes shares, and performances, and happenings, and quite sharp, and sometimes radical manifestations of artistic activity - is the most mixed reactions of society.
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Read more: http://lenta.ru/conf/bakshtein/

[Евгений]

Joseph Backstein, director of the Institute of Contemporary Art. (Press Conference)
Questions:
1. What is the impact on the cultural community has made the process?
It turns out that regardless of the outcome of this particular process is likely to prosecute almost any cultural phenomenon by the intolerant and radical groups.
2. Regulated, or if so - how art is governed in democratic countries?
3. I understand that in today's world, art is very closely connected with the law (copyright, etc.), respectively in the world should be to resolve the accumulated experience and such conflict situations.
Joseph Backstein:
1. Ironically, he helped consolidate the artistic environment, which understood the full extent of the danger that entails the process itself, especially if the court decision would be accusatory in nature. That is, politically, legally and in terms of development of civil society in our country - a process that forced all players at this stage to determine its position, this was an absolute sense. At the same time all the characters, including on the art scene, felt the danger of this history, and is now an understanding that after this process, any exhibition falls into a zone of risk, because any work of art can cause someone fairly sharp and negative reactions. Even the landscape can be any insult (eg, my sense of nature) and also cause some potential legal implications.

This process, of course, had negative consequences, the very fact of the prosecution. On the other hand, it contributed to the consolidation of civil society in its broadest sense and consolidation of groups and institutions very artistic environment.

Читать дальше... 

2. I must say that is regulated in a very wide range, very often the public protests against this or that works. For example, the work of Robert Mapplethorpe provoked mass protests in America, works by Andres Serrano caused very sharp protests and the general public and religious activists. It was all predictable, and the artist, in particular, Andres Serrano (I talked to him about this), he realized that he creates quite provocative work. For example, our colleague Anda Rotenberg, director of the gallery "Zachęta, was fired for being on one of the exhibitions, which she curated, exhibited the work of Maurizio Cattelan," Dad and meteorite. There was a figure of the pope, who was as if struck by a meteorite, had flown from the sky.

So, in fact, in different countries, depending on what the status of a religion in this country, the response of law enforcement agencies and the public is absolutely different. Sometimes it takes an active, if not aggressive. But the criminal cases I do not remember, I asked colleagues and I do not have such examples, apart from this history with Brener, of which I have mentioned. But it was really just a punishable act, he was charged with hooliganism, but the fact that it was a performance - it is an internal matter personally Brener and most artistic environment.

3. With regard to fine art, then all is far more complex than the theater, movies, music or literature, because of the uncertainty and fuzziness of criteria of quality and professionalism of works of art and cultural activities. Disputes concerning the solvency of even such classics as Ilya Kabakov, not to mention Kazimir Malevich, are still and will still be long enough. In the words of my colleagues and I - to explain why some spots of color are brilliant and worth millions, while others thought them to color stains are not worth anything and artistic values are not - it is very difficult. There were many disputes about the performances of Oleg Kulik!

Therefore, it is art, because its subject matter very broadly interpreted and includes shares, and performances, and happenings, and quite sharp, and sometimes radical manifestations of artistic activity - is the most mixed reactions of society.
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Read more: http://lenta.ru/conf/bakshtein/

[SergeiSK]

Art group "War", known for his scandalous actions, launched a cockroach in the building Tagansky Court, where on July 12 should be announced the verdict in the case of the exhibition "Forbidden Art - 2006". This is in my microblog on Twitter tells famous artist Artem Loskutov.
That's the message Loskutova: "Peter scattered pack of cockroaches in the hallway", "3500 cockroaches. Cockroach Court. With War," "cockroaches everywhere. The war brought nearly all. On the stairs cockroach hell," "took off a few cockroaches," "Auntie, the janitor went to collect livestock.
According to a report from another "Twitter", cockroaches was not 3500, but only 3000, but they were Madagascan.
Artists-extremals of the "War" has already staged the action in the building Tagansky court: in May at the hearing of Yuri Samodurov and Andrei Erofeev brought a guitar, drum, portable guitar amplifier. The building Tagansky court was arranged concert: members of "war" song sung provocative content. However, none of them was detained.
(Lenta.Ru)
What will end today?

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