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Sergei Kuryokhin and Pop-Mekhanika on TV's "Musical Ring"
Making its debut in 1984, Musical Ring was a Perestroika-era Soviet television program, dedicated to showcasing new musical talent and fostering a live audience Q&A. This 1987 segment features composer and avant-garde jazz pianist Sergei Kuryokhin and his band Pop Mekhanika. Throughout the episode Kuryokhin artfully wields the postmodern rhetorical weapon of styob, imbuing formal musical discourse with farce, an artistic and communicative device that became one a defining mode of expression during perestroika and the early post-Soviet period.
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Band Survey from the Leningrad Rock Club completed by Sergei Kuryokhin of Pop Mekhanika
An official rock club survey in which Sergei Kuryokhin utlilizes the late-Soviet aesthetic of stiob and performative socialism to underscore the club's dependence on the KGB
View Artifact"Only the Wildest and Craziest": Kuryokhin's Neo-Avant-Garde on the Russian Radio
An episode of Kuryokhin’s radio program “Vasha liubimaia sobaka [Your favorite dog],” also known as “Nasha malen’kaia rybka [Our little fish],” aka “Russkii liudoed [Russian cannibal].”
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Lenin Was a Mushroom
An excerpt from the famous episode of the TV show "Piatoe koleso" (The Fifth Wheel) in which the experimental musician and performer Sergey Kuryokhin (1954-1996) nearly convinced Soviet audiences that "Lenin was a mushroom."
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Romantics and Fascists
Experimental musician and political provocateur Sergei Kuryokhin (1954-1996) explains his definition of fascism and his distinction between mainstream postmodernism and a postmodernism of protest.
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"What is Concealed Will Be Revealed." Kuryokhin and Dugin's Post-Ironic Political Campaign
A moment in Dugin's political campaign in Saint Petersburg, in which Sergey Kuryokhin and Aleksandr Dugin mock liberal democracy—and Yeltsin’s 1993 referendum—on Russian TV.
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