Thursday, March 5, 2015 • 4:30 PM
Amherst Center for Russian Culture • Reading Room
202 Webster Hall • Amherst College
RUSSIA BY DESIGN: Adventures of Ideas in Global Culture. A Conversation with ILYA OSKOLKOV-TSENTSIPER
A visionary, irreverent cultural entrepreneur, Ilya Oskolkov-Tsentsiper was instrumental in shaping a new image of post-Soviet Russia at the turn of the 21st century through a series of ground-breaking media initiatives, and has been the force behind the reconstruction and repurposing of some of the most important institutions of public life in Moscow.
How do "Western" — European and American — ideas of the public sphere, of "high" and "popular" culture, of space and community, translate, thrive and become utterly transformed on the Russian soil?
Tsentsiper will present his recent ambitious re-design projects, from Moscow's Gorky Park to Stalin-era People's Economy Exposition (the VDNKh) and discuss the relationship of media, design and politics in the context of the current regime.
This event is sponsored by the Amherst Center for Russian Culture, the Georges Lurcy Speaker Series at Amherst, the Amherst College Department of Russian and Programs in Architectural Studies, European Studies and Film and Media Studies.