Russia

A study of the affects and effects of Russian narratives and their global dissemination.

A groundbreaking study on the relationship between Wassily Kandinsky, pioneer of abstract art, and the photographic image.

The first English translation of Alexandra Kollontai's "My Heart Belongs to the Finnish Poor", originally published as "Suomen köyhälistölle kuuluu sydämeni" by the Finnish Trade Union Federation in 1911. The essay is printed in 200 copies as a risographed poster.

First English language translation of Alexandra Kollontaï's writings on Finland from 1906.

The first volume of sdvig: translingual avant-gardes is a Berlin-based poet Dinara Rasuleva's poems written in her native Tatar language.

The first English translation of Viktor Shklovsky's children book Journey to the Land of Movies, originally published in 1926 in Russian.

A photographic report by the famous Italian architect and designer on his youthful trip to Moscow during the political “thaw.”

The seventh volume of the series dedicated to the life and work of Ilya Zdanevich - Iliazd presents the first English translation of the "Albanian" issue of Bloodless Murder magazine, published in Petrograd in 1916. 

A selection of photographs and architectural drawings of "joints" from Eastern Europe gathered and reinterpreted by Natasha Krymskaya, as part of a research project into architectural practices and craft culture.

A selection of Eisenstein's writings (new expanded edition).

An anthology of the constructivist movement, bringing together newly translated or previously unpublished writings by artists and theorists, accompanied by numerous illustrations and an extensive critical apparatus: this reference volume sheds new light on the multiplicity and diversity of the approaches of constructivism and productivism in the 1920s-30, and provides a major contribution to the studies of the Soviet avant-garde.

The sixth volume of the bie bao series revolves around Ilya Zdanevich's account of his visit to Berlin at the end of 1922.

The first English translation of Larissa Reisner (1895-1926)'s writings on the Decembrist uprising.

This book on the films of Anton Vidokle features essays and conversations by theorists, curators, and artists exploring the themes of technological immortality and resurrection informed by Cosmist philosophy.

The fifth volume of the bie bao series presents Ilya Zdanevich's fictional auto-biographical writings based on his one-year stay in Istanbul in 1921.

Combining archive material with a wide selection of photographs of body paintings produced by the duo in the 1970-1980s, this publication retraces the evolution of gender identities and the treatment of the female body in visual culture from the 1950s to the present.

Ulyap is a village in the Caucasus, where one can find an enormous number of accordion and harmonica players. "Ulyap Songs: Beyond Circassian Tradition" represents an attempt to document ancient bards' chants and their entanglement with popular rural heritage as well as post-Soviet culture during modern times, through a critical prism.

Ulyap is a village in the Caucasus, where one can find an enormous number of accordion and harmonica players. "Ulyap Songs: Beyond Circassian Tradition" represents an attempt to document ancient bards' chants and their entanglement with popular rural heritage as well as post-Soviet culture during modern times, through a critical prism.

Ulyap is a village in the Caucasus, where one can find an enormous number of accordion and harmonica players. "Ulyap Songs: Beyond Circassian Tradition" represents an attempt to document ancient bards' chants and their entanglement with popular rural heritage as well as post-Soviet culture during modern times, through a critical prism.

This publication is based on an exhibition and research project that foregrounds an ever-incomplete weaving of narratives of artists, curators, writers, and customary knowledge holders. It traces the many worlds that have existed in parallel, often in spite of or against the oppressive visions imagined by successive regimes—the Russian Empire, the USSR, and contemporary Russia—that have controlled areas across Eastern Europe and Central and North Asia.

The fourth volume of Rab-Rab Press' bie bao series presents Ilya Zdanevich's talk The New Schools in Russian Poetry, given in 1921 in Paris. In this talk, Zdanevich introduced zaum to the French Dadaists. He declared that practical and poetic languages are two poles of existence, two opposite ways of life.

A parallel dive into the images of filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky and photographer Sophie Ristelhueber.

Igor Terentiev's biography of Ilya Zdanevich published in 1919 in Tbilisi.

The English translation of Zdanevich's Dadaist autobiographical lecture in Paris in 1922, where he adopts the name Iliazda. In this entertaining lecture, the achievements of the avant-garde is presented as a combination of zaum, polymorphous sexuality, aleatory forms and scatological interpretation of culture.

Curator without a System brings together, for the first time in English, a rich variety of essays by the curator Viktor Misiano written between 1988 and 2005.

Through a new reading of the Notebooks of Vaslav Nijinsky, who was described as "insane", and by taking them out of their reduction to a psychiatric diagnosis, Madeleine Abassade reveals the dancer's revolt against an established order of which he was the instrument and from which he sought to emancipate himself by creating his own choreographies.

Through a new reading of the Notebooks of Vaslav Nijinsky, who was described as "insane", and by taking them out of their reduction to a psychiatric diagnosis, Madeleine Abassade reveals the dancer's revolt against an established order of which he was the instrument and from which he sought to emancipate himself by creating his own choreographies.

The theatricalization of the Soviet Union through the reenactment as theater of the Stalinist show trials by the playwright Nikolai Evreinov (1879-1953).

An unusually intimate, close-quarters account of daily life in postwar communist countries.

A collection of essays investigating predicaments of rootedness and rootlessness and notions of belonging and of displacement across different geographical and epistemological coordinates.

Olga Kokcharova's LP Furnica is a conceptual and striking sound work that emerged from a recording session in a forest, where the Geneva-based artist captured the sounds of an anthill. As the session unfolded, ants infiltrated the recording device and gradually destroyed its components, leading to intensifying sonic disturbances that overtook the original soundscape.

An essay by the distinguished philosopher and theorist of art and media on the current evolution and possible future of museum collections practices and strategies.

The history of Soviet and post-Soviet art from 1970 to the present through the essays of thirty authors and the works of more than fifty artists.

An critical exploration of the public role of cultural institutions in times of global crisis.

An off-track, frenetic and exciting improvisation session bringing together musicians who have known each other for many years and are playing together for the first time.

A study and translation of a fundamental text on the “art of the insane” in Russia, re-establishing a whole section of Western history of the interest of psychiatrists in the relationship between creation and madness.

An artistic research on the political construction of representations of socialist and capitalist modernity during the Cold War, through a history of exhibitions.

Russian writer and philosopher Oxana Timofeeva was born and grew up in various parts of the USSR. The book explores the difficulty of reducing one's sense of homeland to one's country alone, the philosophical interconnectedness of movement and rootedness, our plant and animal souls, and how we need to reimagine our desired, fictional if need be, homelands.

The first ever anthology of feminist poetry from Russia.

Full transcript of Mekas's Lithuania and the Collapse of the USSR: a five-hour-long film made up of footage from US television newscasts covering the independence of Lithuania and the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Maria Beltsikova and Tatiana Dordzhieva are two Kalmyk folk musicians, named after the Mongolian descendants living in Russia. This compilation gathers traditional Kalmyks songs (about the deportation of the Kalmyks in 1943-1944) and Soviet folklore.

Researcher Elena Vogman examines the unpublished archival material relating to the film adaptation of Karl Marx's Capital by Sergei Eisenstein. The analysis of these materials reveals the clear and ambitious idea that animated the Soviet filmmaker for this aborted project: to build a visual theorization of value.

First French edition of an essential manifesto of modern art written by Russian writer, poet and journalist Ilya Ehrenburg in 1921.

This first monograph on Aslan Gaisumov borrows its title from a video work focusing on the traumatic aftermaths of post-World War II for the Chechen people under Soviet control. The publication documents in text and images this both historical and intimate project.

A collection of texts by Soviet avant-garde filmmaker and theoretician Dziga Vertov, including a critical apparatus and visual documents.

Coiled Verbal Spring: Devices of Lenin's Language brings together the first English translation of the Russian Formalist and Futurist writings on Lenin's revolutionary language, one of the most interesting projects of political Formalism and avant-garde theory in the twentieth century.