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Oleg Kulik and Alexander Brener, “Rabid Dog or the Last Taboo Guarded by a Lone Cerberus,” 23 November 1994
A snarling, nude Oleg Kulik (1961-) attacks cars and strangers on the street, while his friend, Alexander Brener (1957-), pulls on a chain attached to his neck.
"Tsoi's Wall" on Arbat
A wall of fan graffiti dedocated to the late Soviet rock star Viktor Tsoi on Moscow's famous Arbat Street.
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Leningrad Rock Club
A wall of graffiti in the courtyard of the Leningrad Rock Club (1981-1991) on 13 Rubinshteyna Street in Leningrad (St. Petersburg), which featured fan street art dedicated to USSR's most revered rock-music collectives. When the wall was painted over in 2010 by the bulding's new proprietor, this caused a public outcry from both rock fans and the many surviving musicians from that era, who sought to preserve the LRC's legacy and designmate the wall and the building a historical landmark.
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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.
Alexander Brener, "First Glove," 1995
In First Glove, a 1995 performance by Moscow actionist and writer Alexander Brener (1957-), the artist challenged then-President Boris Yeltsin (1931-2007) to a fistfight on Moscow’s Red Square.
Anatoly Osmolovsky and the Non-Governmental Control Commission, “Against Everyone,” 1999
In 1999, Anatoly Osmolovsky and the artists’ collective known as the Non-Governmental Control Commission staged an artistic and political action in which group members displayed a banner reading “Against Everyone” while standing atop Lenin's Mausoleum.