Call for Papers “D.A. Prigov’s Art: Verbal – Visual – Performative”

Conference venue: St. Peterburg (Russia)
Period: Nov. 4-7, 2012
Deadline for submitting abstracts: July. 1, 2012

The Prigov Foundation, the Prigov Laboratory at the Russian State University for the Humanities (Moscow), and the Department of Contemporary Art of the State Hermitage Museum (St. Petersburg, Russia) invite scholars and graduate students in all fields of humanities and Russian Studies to participate in a three-day international conference.
The conference is dedicated to the opening of the Dmitri A. Prigov’s permanent exhibition as part of the Contemporary Art Department of the State Hermitage Museum.
Dmitrii Aleksandrovich Prigov (1940-2007), is one of the most important figures in the Russian underground culture of the 1970s-80s who effectively continued his artistic experiments into the post-Soviet period as well, coming to be seen by many as the leading practitioner and theoretician of Russian postmodernism. Having begun his artistic career in the early 1970s as one of representatives of the non-conformist Moscow Conceptualist circle of artists, writers and theoreticians, since the period of Perestroika, Prigov participated in many exhibits, sang in the opera, collaborated with musicians, published four books of prose and wrote thousands of poetic texts and numerous theoretic manifestoes.

The opening of Prigov’s permanent exhibition at the Hermitage certainly implies a greater focus on his visual works, however, conference participants are encouraged to tackle a broader spectrum of subjects, including but not limited to the following:

The conference’s working languages are Russian and English. Please send your paper topic, abstract (no more than 500 words), and a brief (max. 4 pp.) CV by July 1, 2012 to leiderma@colorado.edu.

e-mail: leiderma@colorado.edu