Keynote Ilya Kukulin: Return to History as an Aesthetic Invention

28 October 2021 | 16.30 – 17.45 CET | ONLINE

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Ilya Kukulin
Return to History as an Aesthetic Invention: How East European Authors Seek their
Ways Out of the State of Collective Emergency

Ilya Kukulin is a cultural historian, cultural sociologist, and a literary critic. He is an Associate professor at the School of Philological Studies, National Research University Higher School of Economics (NRU HSE), Moscow. He is a Senior research fellow of the International Center for the History and Sociology of World War Two and Its Consequences (NRU HSE). His monograph Machines of Noisy Time: How Early Soviet Montage Became a Method  of Unofficial Art (Moscow: New Literary Observer, 2015) was awarded with the Andrei Bely Prize in the nomination “Studies in the Humanities.” He is a winner of several prizes for literary criticism: the Prize-Grant of the Academy of Contemporary Russian Literature for young authors (2002), the International Bella Prize for the best article on poetry of the year (2017), and the “Furious Vissarion” Prize in the nomination “For Special Merit” (2020). A collection of his essays and articles on poetry Breakthrough to an Impossible Connection was published in 2019. His most recent book, Guerrillero’s Logos: The Project of Dmitry Alexandrovich Prigov (in press, 2021), co-written with  Mark Lipovetsky (Columbia University), discusses the works of the well-known poet, artist, and theorist of art in a broad historical context of Russian unofficial art and Russian postmodernism.

 

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