CONCEPTS
ARENA: MIND BATTLE
Kartsen Meyhoff
Concept: The war between mass-media for the influence on their audience
BLITZKRIEG
Friedrich Kittler
Concept: Blitzkrieg as a technical perfection and a direct opposition to the lengthy war (that gradually changes hatred between the warring nations into love) and as a proto-version of the modern Internet space
PAIN. MEMORY. A MEMORY-BOOK
Zoya Yeroshok
Concept: When oblivion is the main sentence passed on people in the War of the State against them, the heroic act of a human would amount to leaving of a trace, a piece of memory
WAR AND PEACE IN TEMS AND DEFINITIONS
Dmitry Loskutov
Concept: The world without arms is an illusion but ideally the arms have to perform their task so that they will never have to be used
IMAGE WAR
Sotirios Bahtsetzis
Concept: Militarization of our everyday visual language as the new means of modern politics
WAR: REDEMPTION OF THE HOSTAGES
Viacheslav Izmailov
Concept: Negotiator as the one who brings the captive from the world of the dead and takes him back to the world of the living
WARS, WAVES, RULERS
Wladimir Velminsky
Concept: Modern society, our very everyday life is manipulated through the technical inventions developed in the military laboratories
HARMONY (WAR SONG)
Yuki Higashino
Concept: Reflections of different ways (harmony and scream) in which music gets instrumentalized in the context of war
CIVIL WAR
Valery Podoroga
Concept: Figure of the Inner Enemy as the basis for self-legitimization of the totalitarian state and the initial matrix structure of the Civil War
ZONE*INTERDITE
Christoph Wachter, Mathias Jud
Concept: An art-project that functions as a testing of our possibility of independent perception and information
CLOWN AT WAR
Leo Bassi
Concept: A double war of a clown – the war with the real war and the war with the war of the narratives and stories that media and power tell about wars, justifying themselves
CONCEPTION: UNKNOWN SOLDIER
Oleg Aronson
Concept: Unknown Soldier as an anonymous victim of war unable to be truly expressed by any political rhetoric
CORPORATIONS
Uzochukwu Nduka
Concept: Corporations, operating in a conflict area, must take on the responsibilities for peace-keeping
CAT NOTATION
Joulia Strauss
Concept: In two hymns to Apollo seven great harmonies of Greece were all brought to one system, teaching the art of peace to Roman conquerors (the barbarians) who knew only war and order as regular as that of their army
CIRCLE OF WAR
Arkady Babchenko
Concept: War as that psycho-and-physical life’s circle whence no one is ever able to return
FACES OF FEAR
Anthony Beevor
Concept: Soldier is not the one who desires to kill, but the one who accepts the image of fear that exists in his epoch, be it the ancient times, or the times of the modern asymmetrical warfare
IMAGE OF AN ENEMY
Ljubov Vinogradova
Concept: The image of an enemy during the Second Patriotic War as an image of fear formed by the Soviet propaganda before the war. On the examples of the children’s news-paper caricatures.
UN: CONDITIONS FOR PEACE
Vladimir Petrovsky
Concept: Providing for mutual security as the new diplomacy in the age of nuclear weapons
ACT OF HEROISM
Boris Leonov
Concept: Heroism as the main notion connected with the spiritual activity of a human being, with his/her capacity to voluntarily, independently, consciously to reject him/herself for the sake of others and thus to surpass “the animal state of war”
ANCESTOR
Nikolay Pluzhnikov
Concept: Genetic memory is directly connected with the notion of Motherland, with its defense and the defense of the territory where the ancestors are buried
RADICAL SIMPLIFICATION
Andrey Tkachenko
Concept: War as a radical simplification of the structure of the social relations and of the structure of individual human feeling
SERGEANT KOSOV - PEACEMAKER
German Vinogradov
Concept: Theatricality and masquerade dealing with the theme of war in the result of which we may witness death of the main character
SNIPER
Jakob Boeskov
Concept: An art object that becomes a means to measure reality of the modern world and modern war.
STRATEGIC CONFLICT PREVENTION
Anton Ivanov
Concept: War as a radical simplification of the structure of the social relations and of the structure of individual human feeling.
LEVEL OF DISPERSION. ASHES
Ilya Plekhanov
Concept: Memory of War is ashes: that which is no longer and that which will no longer seize.
FINANCIAL WAR
Sigudrur Ingolfsson
Concept: The burst of Island’s economy is a result of the “military” defeat in the financial expansion.
PRIVATE WAR
Obrad Savic
Concept: The process of globalization as the disintegration of the borders of the States provokes the new war as an epidemics of private wars.
SHALAMOV: WAR/CAMP
Mikhail Ryklin
Concept: Great Patriotic war as a coverage for camps. The main warning that can be discerned from the works of Shalamov is that the new image of an enemy (lost after the end of the Cold War) will be created through the new state terrorism.