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Primetime hypnotic tele-healing with Anatoly Kashpirovsky
Anatoly Kashpirovsky (1939-), a “psychic” authority on perestroika-era "new thinking," uses the power of suggestion to heal the Soviet people of ailments physical and spiritual.
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AIDS: More Questions than Answers
Late-Soviet mainstream-press article about the AIDS epidemic (from the newspaper Литературная газета)
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The “Kartinnik”/”Picture-man” society at the Dam boardwalk in Sverdlovsk, 1989
A photograph of a group of youths doing a Punk-Skomorokh performance at a public boardwalk. B.U. Kashkin's "Kartinnik" circle creates a wave of notorious but positive and cheerful actionism.
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Two Lives, Two Destinies. Sketch of S.E. Esenin and N. Kliuev
Article about the love affair between and the literary destinies of the poets Sergei Esenin and Nikolai Kliuev in the literary supplement to the gay newspaper 1/10
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3pm on Sundays at the Dam, the jesters [skomorokhi] will gift society pictures!, 1989 Tempera on Wood panel.
B.U. Kashkin's circle created outsider art in various media, but especially painting, distributing it to the public during their Punk-Skomorokh perfromances. B.U. Kashkin encouraged amateur artists to experiment with public art.
View ArtifactThe Chechen Knot: 13 theses.
Infamous article on the Chechen war by controversial gay journalist Slava Mogutin
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