Belyayevo Forever: Preserving the Generic

magnet for the intelligentsia

decentralise the administration

inclination to decentralise science

wastelands between the buildings

The “Collective Actions” group used the emptiness of the suburbs as an integral element of their performances. Dmitri Prigov often referred to the emptiness of Belyayevo.

The real value was elsewhere – in public buildings like the “houses of culture,” cinemas, and so on

Moscow Conceptualism lacked any commercial meaning whatsoever.

Moscow Conceptualism was the most important direction in Soviet art of the second half of the 20th century

They designed an unpretentious, modest, but maximally comfortable living environment.

On the one hand, was the creation of a totally new city fabric, full of voids and wastelands, uncontrolled common space, ready to become exhibition space or whatever else