In What Does It Mean to Be Post-Soviet? Madina Tlostanova traces
how contemporary post-Soviet art mediates this human condition.
Observing how the concept of the happy future—which was at the
core of the project of Soviet modernity—has lapsed from the
post-Soviet imagination, Tlostanova shows how the possible way out
of such a sense of futurelessness lies in the engagement with
activist art. She interviews artists, art collectives, and writers
such as Estonian artist Liina Siib, Uzbek artist Vyacheslav
Akhunov, and Azerbaijani writer Afanassy Mamedov who frame the
post-Soviet condition through the experience and expression of
community, space, temporality, gender, and negotiating the demands
of the state and the market. In foregrounding the unfolding
aesthesis and activism in the post-Soviet space, Tlostanova
emphasizes the important role that decolonial art plays in
providing the foundation upon which to build new modes of thought
and a decolonial future.
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