Featured essay · 07.11.26
Art-Life Balance, or Utopia No More: Staging the Biopolitical in “DAU”
DAU does not simply reconstruct the Soviet past: it stages the extraction of life itself. Julia Lezhnina examines how participation becomes production and asks whether an outside remains possible.
Contributors
Independent ResearcherJulia LezhninaMaster of Arts in Curatorial Studies (Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences, Smolny College of Saint Petersburg State University).1 text
Art CriticIvan StreltsovCo-founder and ex-editor in SPECTATE independent web zine (www.spectate.ru). Now co-editor at US_AFTER_ALL2 texts
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