edited by Julie Buckler, Julie Cassiday and Boris Wolfson
University of Wisconsin Press, 2018 eISBN: 978-0-299-31833-8 | Cloth: 978-0-299-31830-7 Library of Congress Classification PN2721.R77 2018 Dewey Decimal Classification 792.0947
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Throughout its modern history, Russia has seen a succession of highly performative social acts that play out prominently in the public sphere. This innovative volume brings the fields of performance studies and Russian studies into dialog for the first time and shows that performance is a vital means for understanding Russia's culture from the reign of Peter the Great to the era of Putin. These twenty-seven essays encompass a diverse range of topics, from dance and classical music to live poetry and from viral video to public jubilees and political protest. As a whole they comprise an integrated, compelling intervention in Russian studies.
Challenging the primacy of the written word in this field, the volume fosters a larger intellectual community informed by theories and practices of performance from anthropology, art history, dance studies, film studies, cultural and social history, literary studies, musicology, political science, theater studies, and sociology.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Julie Buckler is the Samuel Hazzard Cross Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Comparative Literature at Harvard University. She is the author of the award-winning books Mapping St. Petersburg and The Literary Lorgnette. Julie Cassiday is a professor of Russian at Williams College and the author of The Enemy on Trial. Boris Wolfson is an associate professor of Russian at Amherst College and the author of Self and Theater in Stalin's Russia.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
List of Illustrations
Preface
Foreword: Performing Russia
W. B. Worthen
Introduction: Thinking through Performance in Russian Culture
Julie A. Buckler, Julie A. Cassiday, and Boris Wolfson
Predstavlenie: Representation and Cultural Imagination
Aleksei Venetsianov and the Theatricality of Russian Painting
Molly Brunson
Performing Obligation
John Randolph
The Album as Performance: Notes on the Limits of the Visible
Oksana Sarkisova and Olga Shevchenko
Performative Objects: How Things Do Things Without Words
Serguei Alex. Oushakine
Performing Russian Success? The 1770 Exhibition at the Imperial Academy of Arts
Rosalind P. Blakesley
The Silver Wreath: Jubilees in Russian Public Life, 1880–1920s
Anna Muza
Pencil Marks on a Field: Form and Support in Late-Soviet Participatory Performance by the Collective Actions Group
Yelena Kalinsky
Dancing the National Idea: Reception and Appropriation of Lezginka in Russia
Tatiana Smorodinska
Neo-Judaic Performance and “Russian” Identity in the Jewish Autonomous Region
S. I. Salamensky
Vystuplenie: Performers and Interventions
“Live Poetry”: Doubled Performances on OpenSpace
Stephanie Sandler
From Text to Act: Chaikovskii’s Songs as Embodied Emotion
Philip Ross Bullock
Playing the Public: Karamzin, Rostopchin, S. Glinka, 1802–1808
Bella Grigoryan
Borders Unpatrolled: Imaginary Geographies and the Spaces of Performance in Russian Viral Video
Eliot Borenstein Vystuplenie i nakazanie: Performing Political Protest in Putin’s Russia (Voina, Pussy Riot, Pavlensky)
Lilya Kaganovsky
Architectonic Supersagas: Tatlin Stages Khlebnikov’s “Zangezi”
Michael Kunichika
Arousing Patriotism: Anna Chapman and the Curious Case of the Sexy Spy
Julie Hemment
The Performative According to Prigov
Mark Lipovetsky and Ilya Kukulin
Performing Commodities: The Fabergé Imperial Eggs
Julie A. Buckler
Ispolnenie: Action and Agency
How Brezhnev-Era Animated Films Queered Stagnation
Anna Fishzon
Voice as a Performative Phenomenon in Early Soviet Sound Films
Oksana Bulgakowa
Performative Evolution of a Dance: The Case of The Dying Swan
Daria Khitrova
The Actor’s Task as a Philosophical Quest in the Russian 1920s: Two Test Cases
Caryl Emerson
Text and Anti-Text: Dividing the Labors of Performance
Alaina Lemon
The Object as Prosthesis and Performer in Russian New Drama
Susanna Weygandt
Performing Family Unity: Holiday Celebrations in the Labor Camp Correspondence of Arsenii Formakov
Emily D. Johnson
The Performative Stakes of the Tchaikovsky Piano Competition
Boris Wolfson
Glamazons en travesti: Drag Queens in Putin’s Russia
Julie A. Cassiday
Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index
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edited by Julie Buckler, Julie Cassiday and Boris Wolfson
University of Wisconsin Press, 2018 eISBN: 978-0-299-31833-8 Cloth: 978-0-299-31830-7
Throughout its modern history, Russia has seen a succession of highly performative social acts that play out prominently in the public sphere. This innovative volume brings the fields of performance studies and Russian studies into dialog for the first time and shows that performance is a vital means for understanding Russia's culture from the reign of Peter the Great to the era of Putin. These twenty-seven essays encompass a diverse range of topics, from dance and classical music to live poetry and from viral video to public jubilees and political protest. As a whole they comprise an integrated, compelling intervention in Russian studies.
Challenging the primacy of the written word in this field, the volume fosters a larger intellectual community informed by theories and practices of performance from anthropology, art history, dance studies, film studies, cultural and social history, literary studies, musicology, political science, theater studies, and sociology.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Julie Buckler is the Samuel Hazzard Cross Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Comparative Literature at Harvard University. She is the author of the award-winning books Mapping St. Petersburg and The Literary Lorgnette. Julie Cassiday is a professor of Russian at Williams College and the author of The Enemy on Trial. Boris Wolfson is an associate professor of Russian at Amherst College and the author of Self and Theater in Stalin's Russia.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
List of Illustrations
Preface
Foreword: Performing Russia
W. B. Worthen
Introduction: Thinking through Performance in Russian Culture
Julie A. Buckler, Julie A. Cassiday, and Boris Wolfson
Predstavlenie: Representation and Cultural Imagination
Aleksei Venetsianov and the Theatricality of Russian Painting
Molly Brunson
Performing Obligation
John Randolph
The Album as Performance: Notes on the Limits of the Visible
Oksana Sarkisova and Olga Shevchenko
Performative Objects: How Things Do Things Without Words
Serguei Alex. Oushakine
Performing Russian Success? The 1770 Exhibition at the Imperial Academy of Arts
Rosalind P. Blakesley
The Silver Wreath: Jubilees in Russian Public Life, 1880–1920s
Anna Muza
Pencil Marks on a Field: Form and Support in Late-Soviet Participatory Performance by the Collective Actions Group
Yelena Kalinsky
Dancing the National Idea: Reception and Appropriation of Lezginka in Russia
Tatiana Smorodinska
Neo-Judaic Performance and “Russian” Identity in the Jewish Autonomous Region
S. I. Salamensky
Vystuplenie: Performers and Interventions
“Live Poetry”: Doubled Performances on OpenSpace
Stephanie Sandler
From Text to Act: Chaikovskii’s Songs as Embodied Emotion
Philip Ross Bullock
Playing the Public: Karamzin, Rostopchin, S. Glinka, 1802–1808
Bella Grigoryan
Borders Unpatrolled: Imaginary Geographies and the Spaces of Performance in Russian Viral Video
Eliot Borenstein Vystuplenie i nakazanie: Performing Political Protest in Putin’s Russia (Voina, Pussy Riot, Pavlensky)
Lilya Kaganovsky
Architectonic Supersagas: Tatlin Stages Khlebnikov’s “Zangezi”
Michael Kunichika
Arousing Patriotism: Anna Chapman and the Curious Case of the Sexy Spy
Julie Hemment
The Performative According to Prigov
Mark Lipovetsky and Ilya Kukulin
Performing Commodities: The Fabergé Imperial Eggs
Julie A. Buckler
Ispolnenie: Action and Agency
How Brezhnev-Era Animated Films Queered Stagnation
Anna Fishzon
Voice as a Performative Phenomenon in Early Soviet Sound Films
Oksana Bulgakowa
Performative Evolution of a Dance: The Case of The Dying Swan
Daria Khitrova
The Actor’s Task as a Philosophical Quest in the Russian 1920s: Two Test Cases
Caryl Emerson
Text and Anti-Text: Dividing the Labors of Performance
Alaina Lemon
The Object as Prosthesis and Performer in Russian New Drama
Susanna Weygandt
Performing Family Unity: Holiday Celebrations in the Labor Camp Correspondence of Arsenii Formakov
Emily D. Johnson
The Performative Stakes of the Tchaikovsky Piano Competition
Boris Wolfson
Glamazons en travesti: Drag Queens in Putin’s Russia
Julie A. Cassiday
Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index
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