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Kazimir Malevich’s Malers’ Brigade
Extension of practice, Malevich's BrigadeAlso known as: Malevich’s Brigade, Malers’ Brigade / Бригада малеров имени Казимира Малевича, БМимКМ
Collective Action
Kazimir Malevich’s Malers’ Brigade is an open artistic collective founded in Yekaterinburg in 2004. Its members maintain their own artistic practices, but within the Brigade they become a different kind of collective subject: ideas are developed and decisions are made together. The Brigade works through performances, happenings, exhibitions, videos and interventions in existing spaces, often using ordinary materials and situations as starting points for action.
“Each of us is an individualist in our artistic practice. But within the Brigade, we become a single organism.”
— April Theses, 2008
SELECTED PROJECTS
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Selected videos by the Brigade → YouTube playlist
Malers’ Brigade — Russian Archive →
R²
Extension of practice, R²R² is a long-term collaboration between artist Marina Razheva and researcher Dmitry Razhev. They have worked together since 1989, exploring landscapes, cities, archives, and traces of human presence. Dmitry researches the history, geology and materials of a site. Marina and Dmitry decide together where and how to act.
Their work brings research and artistic practice into the same process. It begins with close attention to places, objects and situations, and with an investigation of what can be established through evidence and direct encounter.
Their different practices are not kept separate. Evidence can constrain, redirect or complicate the artistic action, while artistic action can make another aspect of the evidence or situation newly active. The work emerges from this ongoing exchange.
Over decades of working together, this practice has developed into Revealed Realism (RR), a method of working with reality through close attention and minimal intervention.
Selected Projects:
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Selected Publication:
Cappadocia: A Very Curious Place (2008)
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