PPV #20: Paper Architecture book launch with Yuri Avvakumov and Anna Bokov
This is the first comprehensive publication covering the history of paper architecture, a unique phenomenon of the Soviet 1980s.Architect and curator Yuri Avvakumov explores the legendary movement of “paper architects,” of which he was a key representative. Paper architecture—a type of conceptual art that circulated in the form of journal publications, exhibitions, and competitions of ideas—was a product of nonconformist reflection which employed languages and images of various architectural styles to create multivalent project designs. Paper architecture brought together the visual means of expression typical of fine art, architecture proper, literature, and theater. The book features texts and works by the main paper architects, including Yuri Avvakumov, Mikhail Belov, Alexander Brodsky, Lev Evzovich, Mikhail Filippov, Totan Kuzembaev, Vyacheslav Mizin, and Ilya Utkin.
The Art Newspaper Russia Book of the Year.
The book is published with the support of Andrey Cheglakov Foundation.
This event is organised by PPV (Perverting the Power Vertical: Politics and Aesthetics in the Global East), a seminar series and events platform running under the auspices of UCL SSEES'S FRINGE Centre, in collaboration with Garage Museum of Contemporary Art. The event was recorded on 12 October 2021.