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Table of contents

1. 1. Panel I: Underground Archives: Distribution of Unofficial Knowledge
      1. 1. Ann Komaromi (Toronto): The Precarious Archive: Leningrad Journals and Unofficial CulturePanel I: Underground Archives: Distribution of Unofficial Knowledge
         2. Yakov Klots (New York): Tamizdat as a Practice and Institution: (De)Archivation of the Soviet Underground
   2. Panel II: Archival Self-Fashioning: Between Life and Art 
      1. 1. Juliane Fürst (Potsdam): Notes from the Zone of Kaif: An Explorationof the Archiving and Self-Fashioning Practices of Azazello – Hippie, Poet, Narkoman
         2. Klavdia Smola (Dresden): Archiving the Life World: Commemorative Art Books of the Late Soviet Underground
         3. Ilya Kukulin (Moscow): Avant-gardist-cum-Archivist: A Brief History of a Cultural Figure (from Alexey Kruchionykh to Ivan Akhmetiev)
         4. Nathalie Moine (Paris): Tales and Songs Born on the Roads: Recording Gypsy Culture in the Late Soviet Union
   3. Panel III (Part 1): Poetics of Documentation: Archive and Performance 
      1. 1. Mikhail Pavlovets (Moscow): The Work of German Lukomnikov as a Form of Self-Archiving
   4. Panel III (Part 2): Poetics of Documentation: Archive and Performance 
      1. 1. Mary A. Nicholas (Bethlehem): Co-Authorship, Collaboration, and Other “Counter-Archival Gestures” in Late-Soviet Moscow Conceptualism
         2. Kirill Korchagin (Moscow): Poetics of De-Archiviation: Vassily Kondrat’ev between Unofficial Literature and Global Modernism
         3. Ulrike Goldschweer (Bochum): Collecting, Hoarding, Piling up: Forms of Accumulating Things and Words in Art and Literature
         4. Ilja Kukuj (Munich): The Archive as a Creative Platform in Artistic Practice of Trans-Furists
         5. Stanislav Savitsky (St.-Petersburg): Memory and Fantasy (On Eleventh Dimension by Boris Kudriakov)
         6. Alessandra Franetovich (Florence): Self-Institutionalizing the Unofficial Soviet Art at the Beginning of the 1980’s: Vadim Zakharov’s Early Approach to Archival Practice
   5. Panel III (Part 3): Poetics of Documentation: Archive and Performance
      1. 1. Ekaterina Asonova (Moscow): Archive of the Illustrator at the Exhibition in the Children‘s Library: In Search of the „Lost“
         2. Denis Larionov (Moscow): Pavel Ulitins’s Texts as an Archive of Affects
   6. Panel IV: Media and Methods of Self-Documentation
      1. 1. Kira Dolinina (St.-Petersburg): Mikhail Grobman’s Archive: The Second Russian Avant-Garde in the Mirror of One Archive (Archiving the „Truth of Fact“)Panel IV: Media and Methods of Self-Documentation
         2. Elena Penskaya (Moscow): Vsevolod Nekrasov and his Practices of Collecting
         3. Dorine Schellens (Leiden): The Role of Exhibitions in the Reception History of Moscow Conceptualism
   7. Panel V: Underground Artists as Historians of Culture
      1. 1. Isabel Jacobs (London): Form becomes History: Innovation, Negative Adaptation, and Memory in Soviet Culture
         2. Christian Zehnder (Fribourg): The Leningrad Underground as an Archive of Modernism: Considering Informal Philology
   8. Panel VI: Afterlife of Archives: Transcultural Memory
      1. 1. Sabine Hänsgen (Zurich): Translating Moscow Conceptualism
         2. Michał Mrugalski (Berlin): The Warsaw Summit of Archivists. Ilya and Emilia Kabakov’s Meeting with Joseph Kosuth at the Borderline between Russian and Western Banality
   9. Panel VII: Afterlife of Archives: Recycling and Artistic Reception
      1. 1. Maria Engström (Uppsala) and Alexei Semenenko (Umeå): Recycling the Underground: Socialist Ruins and Memory Practices in Contemporary Russia
         2. Pavel Arsen’ev (S.-Petersburg / Université de Genève). «Это было поэзией навсегда, пока не кончилось»: о новой темпоральности и медиа-среде современной поэзии
   10. Panel VIII: Digital Memory of the Soviet Underground
       1. 1. Krasimira Butseva (London): Institutional and self-led archiving practices: how does APTART manifest on a screen?
          2. Marina Gerber (Hamburg): Factography: Distant Reading of Collective Actions

Panel I: Underground Archives: Distribution of Unofficial Knowledge

Ann Komaromi (Toronto): The Precarious Archive: Leningrad Journals and Unofficial CulturePanel I: Underground Archives: Distribution of Unofficial Knowledge

Yakov Klots (New York): Tamizdat as a Practice and Institution: (De)Archivation of the Soviet Underground

Panel II: Archival Self-Fashioning: Between Life and Art 

Juliane Fürst (Potsdam): Notes from the Zone of Kaif: An Explorationof the Archiving and Self-Fashioning Practices of Azazello – Hippie, Poet, Narkoman

Klavdia Smola (Dresden): Archiving the Life World: Commemorative Art Books of the Late Soviet Underground

Ilya Kukulin (Moscow): Avant-gardist-cum-Archivist: A Brief History of a Cultural Figure (from Alexey Kruchionykh to Ivan Akhmetiev)

Nathalie Moine (Paris): Tales and Songs Born on the Roads: Recording Gypsy Culture in the Late Soviet Union

Panel III (Part 1): Poetics of Documentation: Archive and Performance 

Mikhail Pavlovets (Moscow): The Work of German Lukomnikov as a Form of Self-Archiving

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Panel III (Part 2): Poetics of Documentation: Archive and Performance 

Mary A. Nicholas (Bethlehem): Co-Authorship, Collaboration, and Other “Counter-Archival Gestures” in Late-Soviet Moscow Conceptualism

Kirill Korchagin (Moscow): Poetics of De-Archiviation: Vassily Kondrat’ev between Unofficial Literature and Global Modernism

Ulrike Goldschweer (Bochum): Collecting, Hoarding, Piling up: Forms of Accumulating Things and Words in Art and Literature

Ilja Kukuj (Munich): The Archive as a Creative Platform in Artistic Practice of Trans-Furists

Stanislav Savitsky (St.-Petersburg): Memory and Fantasy (On Eleventh Dimension by Boris Kudriakov)

Alessandra Franetovich (Florence): Self-Institutionalizing the Unofficial Soviet Art at the Beginning of the 1980’s: Vadim Zakharov’s Early Approach to Archival Practice

Panel III (Part 3): Poetics of Documentation: Archive and Performance

Ekaterina Asonova (Moscow): Archive of the Illustrator at the Exhibition in the Children‘s Library: In Search of the „Lost“

Denis Larionov (Moscow): Pavel Ulitins’s Texts as an Archive of Affects

Panel IV: Media and Methods of Self-Documentation

Kira Dolinina (St.-Petersburg): Mikhail Grobman’s Archive: The Second Russian Avant-Garde in the Mirror of One Archive (Archiving the „Truth of Fact“)Panel IV: Media and Methods of Self-Documentation

Elena Penskaya (Moscow): Vsevolod Nekrasov and his Practices of Collecting

Dorine Schellens (Leiden): The Role of Exhibitions in the Reception History of Moscow Conceptualism

Panel V: Underground Artists as Historians of Culture

Isabel Jacobs (London): Form becomes History: Innovation, Negative Adaptation, and Memory in Soviet Culture

Christian Zehnder (Fribourg): The Leningrad Underground as an Archive of Modernism: Considering Informal Philology

Panel VI: Afterlife of Archives: Transcultural Memory

Sabine Hänsgen (Zurich): Translating Moscow Conceptualism

Michał Mrugalski (Berlin): The Warsaw Summit of Archivists. Ilya and Emilia Kabakov’s Meeting with Joseph Kosuth at the Borderline between Russian and Western Banality

Panel VII: Afterlife of Archives: Recycling and Artistic Reception

Maria Engström (Uppsala) and Alexei Semenenko (Umeå): Recycling the Underground: Socialist Ruins and Memory Practices in Contemporary Russia

Pavel Arsen’ev (S.-Petersburg / Université de Genève). «Это было поэзией навсегда, пока не кончилось»: о новой темпоральности и медиа-среде современной поэзии

Panel VIII: Digital Memory of the Soviet Underground

Krasimira Butseva (London): Institutional and self-led archiving practices: how does APTART manifest on a screen?

Marina Gerber (Hamburg): Factography: Distant Reading of Collective Actions