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Soviet Nostalgia: “Old Songs About What Matters Most”
Arguably the most popular Soviet nostalgia project of the 1990s was Leonid Parfenov and Konstantin Ernst’s "Starye pesni o glavnom [Old Songs About What Matters Most]"
The “Kartinnik”/ ”Picture-man” society at the Dam boardwalk in Sverdlovsk, 1989
A group of youths perform a Punk-Skomorokh act on a public boardwalk. They are part of street artist B.U. Kashkin's (1938-2005) “Kartinnik” circle, which produced a wave of infamous—but positive and cheerful—actionism.
"At 3 PM on Sundays, at the Dam, the jesters [skomorokhi] will gift society with pictures!", 1989
B.U. Kashkin's circle created outsider art in various media, but especially painting, distributing it to the public during their Punk-Skomorokh performances. B.U. Kashkin encouraged amateur artists to experiment with public art.
B. U. Kashkin in front of painted rubbish bins at the Ural Electro-Technical Institute, 1993.
The bearded B.U.Kashkin (1938-2005) stands in front of an array of trash bins painted with bright, colorful scenes featuring trees, butterflies, and flowers. Against the background of this artistic display, pigeons are seen digging through the site’s abundant garbage and mud.
Shaburov Sasha Christ
The artist Alexander Shaburov (1965-) developed a series of performances about artistic identity, which included both mocking and pastiching the cult leader Marina Tsvigun (aka “Maria Devi Christ”), whose group attempted to seize the Saint Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv in 1993.
Nikita Skripkin and Locis Studio's "Perestroika" video game (1990-1998)
Perestroika, the puzzle game based on the eponymous series of late-Soviet political reforms, heralded a new, weird age in Russian gaming in its inexplicable attempt to represent the ongoing political turmoil via the reductive means of traversing colorful islands to prosperity.