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Collective Actions is one of the most significant artistic practices to emerge from Moscow Conceptualism. The group's enigmatic idea of 'Empty action' is the focal point for Marina Gerber's exploration of this practice in relation to labour in the late Soviet Union. Based on interviews with members of the group (Monastyrski, Panitkov, Alexeev, Makarevich, Elagina, Romashko, Hänsgen and Kiesewalter) she exposes the relation between their jobs, their individual art practices and their contribution to the collective in the context of post-Stalinist debates on labour and free time. Departing from the mundane fact that Collective Actions' practice took place in free time from work for the Soviet State, Gerber identifies Empty action as a form of 'art after work'.

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ISBN: 9783837640908
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Author: Marina Gerber
Publisher: Transcript an imprint of transcript
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 236 pages
Series: Image
Genres: History of art
The arts: general topics
Theory of art
Digital, video and new media arts
Photography and photographs
Dance
Theory of music and musicology
Social and cultural history
Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge
Ethics and moral philosophy