Action and Live Art in Belarus.
The 1990s were characterized by a certain boom of performative practices. Thus, previously individual and disparate, in 1997 the performances grew into Performance Week, organized in “The Sixth Line” Gallery, with the participation of Irina Zelenkova, Oleg Ladisov, Ludmila Rusova, Ilya Svirin, Viktor Petrov, Maxim Tyminko. The event was curated by Irina Bigday and Olga Kopenkina.
In 1999, the First International Festival of Performance “Navinki”was held in Minsk. However, in the local art field, the performance as genre fell under the influence of the hierarchical system of art, which caused, on the one hand, a frivolous attitude towards it, and on the other – the difficulty of perception and interpretation of what was seen. Also, it was hard to distinguish between performances, actionism, and happenings. These practices were (re)invented in perestroika and post-perestroika times with new meanings and content added. – Second Archive
Artist and Performance Art Groups
Artists
Groups
Artists and Groups not researched yet
- Bergamot Group
- Olga Maslovskaya
- Roman Tratsiuk
- Red Hogweed – руппа “Красный борщевик”, фотодокументация перфрманса “Место Крика
- Юлия Мажей
- Arthur Komarovsky
- Янис Саар
- Яна Сорока
- Яня Зайченко
- Аня Ланец
- Наташа Гончарик
- Irina Anufrieva
- Lipavy Cviet
- Alena Davidovich / Алена Давідовіч
- Kirill Diomchev
- Mihail Gulin
- Vital Razhkou, al so Vitali Skivitsa, Vitali Kalgin, now Vitali-Hippocrates Kalgin
- Igor Kashkurevich
- Alexei Kuzmich (junior)
- Volha Maslouskaya
- Marina Naprushkina
- Ulyana Nevzorova
- Victor Petrov
- Alexander Pushkin
- Denis Romanovski
- Lyudmila Rusava
- Aleksander Sarna
- Nadya Sayapina
- Jana Shostak
- Galina Vasilyeva / Галіна Васільева
- Zmicier Vishniou
- Siarhiej Ždanovič
Literature and resources
- “The Art Holiday. Narva-88,” estonia with artists from Artists from Belarus, Russia, Georgia, Armenia, and Kyrgyzstan.
- The Global Contemporary and Rise of New Art Worlds
- A series of the most important events in the history of Belarusian performance art
- KALEKTAR – The research platform of contemporary Belarusian art
- Klinau, Artur. Liudmila Rusava : al’bom = Ludmila Rusava (Людміла Русава : альбом = Ludmila Rusava ), Haliiafy 2015
- Lohzkina, Alisa. Voices of resistance. Belarussian protest art goes global
- Secondary Archive – Platform for women artists from Central and Eastern Europe.
- Performance art in Eastern Europe
- Literature page
