“Illusions Killed by Life”: Afterlives of (Soviet) Constructivism, Princeton (May 10-12, 2013)

CONFERENCE PROGRAM ILLUSIONS KILLED BY LIFE: AFtERlivEs oF SoviEt CoNstRUctivism May 10–12, 2013 219 Aaron Burr Hall Princeton University Open to the Public Princeton Conjunction–2013 An Annual Interdisciplinar y Conference On the Web Conference website: http://afterlivesofconstructivism.wordpress.com/about Program in Russian and Eurasian Studies www.princeton.edu/res Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies www.princeton.edu/piirs Cosponsors The Council of the Humanities The Department of Art and Archeology The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures The School of Architecture The Schelby Cullon Davis Center for Historical Studies The University Center for Human Values The Program in European Cultural Studies ORGANIZING COMMITTEE SERGUEI OUSHAKINE (CHAIR) Princeton University STEVEN HARRIS University of Mary Washington ESTHER DA COSTA MEYER Princeton University KEVIN M.F. PLATT University of Pennsylvania IRINA SANDOMIRSKAJA Södertörns Högskola KEYNOTE ADDRESS GINZBURG AT KISLOVODSK: THE ORDZHONIKIDZE SANATORIIUM AND THE END OF MODERNISM IN RUSSIA BY RICHARD PARE the author of Lost Vanguard: Soviet Modernist Architecture, 1922–32 M A S H A KOWELL (UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA) Poster-Specificity: Constructivist Design and Early Post-Stalinist Political Posters J OH N KENNET H M ACKAY (YALE UNIVERSITY) The Dreamer or the Dream: Vertov’s Constructivist Legacy CHAIR: ELLEN CHANCES (PRINCETON UNIVERSITY) EVA F O RG ACS (ART CENTER COLLEGE OF DESIGN, PASADENA) Deconstructivist Neo-Constructivists in Hungary (1960–1990) T I N A D I CA RLO (OSLO SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE DAV I D CROWLEY (SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES AT THE I LI A V. KU KU LI N (MOSCOW CITY PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY) Regeneration of the Method: Former Participants of the Literary Center of Constructivists and Their Pupils in 1936–44 MAY 10, 2013 9.30AM–11.00AM PANEL 1: WHAT IS CONSTRUCTIVISM? AND DESIGN) Constructivist Deconstructivist? PA B LO M U ELLER (CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK) Shaping “October”: The Reception of Soviet Constructivism by the American Art Journal ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART, LONDON) DISCUSSANT: ESTHER DA COSTA MEYER (PRINCETON UNIVERSITY) KRI S T I N RO M B ERG (THE COLLEGE OF WOOSTER) The Tectonics of Minimalism 1.30PM–2.30PM ■ BREAK DISCUSSANT: YVE-ALAIN BOIS 2.30PM–4.30PM PANEL 3: DIFFERENCE AND REPETITION (INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCE STUDY, PRINCETON) ELI S E T H ORS EN (UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH) Reconstructing Constructivist Poetry in the Sixties Staging for the End of History: Avant-garde Architectural Visions at the Beginning and the End of Communism in Eastern Europe 11.00AM–11.30AM ■ BREAK CHAIR: CARYL EMERSON (PRINCETON UNIVERSITY) 11.30AM–1.30PM PANEL 2: VISION IN MOTION I LI A N A V EI N B ERG A (ART ACADEMY OF LATVIA) Ambiguous Revival of Gustav Klutzis’ Legacy in the Soviet Socialist Republic of Latvia DISCUSSANT: DEVIN FORE (PRINCETON UNIVERSITY) 4.30PM–5.00PM ■ BREAK 5.00PM KEYNOTE ADDRESS GINZBURG AT KISLOVODSK: THE ORDZHONIKIDZE SANATORIIUM AND THE END OF MODERNISM IN RUSSIA BY RI CH A RD PA RE , THE AUTHOR OF LOST VANGUARD: SOVIET MODERNIST ARCHITECTURE, 1922–32 CHAIR: HAL FOSTER (PRINCETON UNIVERSITY) J O H N T Y S O N (EMORY UNIVERSITY) Hans Haacke’s Discrepant Constructivism MAY 11, 2013 9.30AM–11.30AM PANEL 4: STYLE AND EPOCH CHAIR: STEVEN HARRIS (UNIVERSITY OF MARY WASHINGTON) I N ES S A KO U T EI N I KOVA (INDEPENDENT SCHOLAR) Turkestan "Constructivism": Between the Imperial and Socialist Colony V I RÁ G M O LN Á R (THE NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH/ From Constructivism to Routinized Modernism: The Zigzag Trajector y of Constructivist Architecture in Postwar Hungary G I N ÉS G A RRI D O (HARVARD UNIVERSITY) The Dream of Flight: On the Gravity-Defying Nature of a New Landscape Infrastructure DA N I I L LEI D ERM A N (PRINCETON UNIVERSITY) “Shimmering” and the Dematerialization of the Avant-garde in Moscow Conceptualism 1.30PM–2.30PM ■ BREAK 11.30AM–12.00PM ■ BREAK 12.00PM–1.30PM PANEL 5: EXPERIMENTS FOR THE FUTURE CHAIR: KIM LANE SCHEPPELE (PRINCETON UNIVERSITY) May 12, 2013 9.30AM–11.15AM PANEL 8: SOCIALIST CITY CHAIR: ESTHER DA COSTA MEYER (PRINCETON UNIVERSITY) FA B I EN B ELLAT (VERSAILLES SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE) Constructivists-Stalinists Gardens S ERG EY KRO P OTOV (EKATERINBURG ACADEMY OF CONTEMPORARY ART) DISCUSSANT: XENIA VYTULEVA (COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY) V LA D I M I R KU LI C (FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY) Constructivism Revived: Vjenceslav Richter and the Legacy of the Avant-Garde in Socialist Yugoslavia M A RI LA A N EM ET S (ACADEMY OF ARTS, TALLINN) Reconstructing Art and Architecture: Absorbing the Legacies of Constructivism in Soviet Estonia in the 1970s DISCUSSANT: JANE SHARP (RUTGERS UNIVERSITY) M A RI A KOKKORI (THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO) The Penguin Pool and Other Buildings: Berthold Romanovich Lubetkin, an Emigré Constructivist in Britain EUGENE LANG COLLEGE) 4.30PM–4.45PM ■ BREAK 4.45PM–6.30PM PANEL 7: BIOGRAPHIES OF OBJECTS CHAIR: SERGUEI OUSHAKINE (PRINCETON UNIVERSITY) DISCUSSANT: KEVIN M.F. PLATT (UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA) DJ U RDJA BA RT LET T (UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS LONDON) From Utopia to Fashion: Dress in Postwar East Europe YU LI A KA RP OVA (CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY, BUDAPEST) Ornament is No Crime: Compromises with Decoration in Soviet Design of the 1950s–the 1960s 2.30PM–4.30PM PANEL 6: FROM MATERIAL TO ARCHITECTURE CHAIR: PETRE PETROV (PRINCETON UNIVERSITY) TOM CU BBI N (UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD) Senezh Studio and Karl Kantor’s Theory of Artistic Design 1964–1968 A LEXA N D RA KÖ H RI N G (UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG) Soviet Brutalism? Faktura/Surface Texture in Postwar Architecture M I CH A L M U RA WS KI (UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE) The Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw: A Stalinist Social Condenser in a Capitalist City P EP AV I LÉS (COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY/PRINCETON UNIVERSITY) Traveling Ideas: Von Faktur zu Texture (SÖDERTÖRN UNIVERSITY) DISCUSSANT: IRINA SANDOMIRSKAJA I U LI I A S KU B Y T S KA (UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA) From Factor y to Neighborhood: the Workers’ Settlement of the Kharkiv Tractor Plant, 1930s–1960s the Meaning of Innovation in Soviet Architecture after 1954 VA DI M BA S S (EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY AT ST PETERSBURG) The Composition Rehabilitated: Architectural Propaedeutics of Soviet Constructivism in Artistic Education of the 1930s–2000s DISCUSSANT: STEVEN HARRIS (UNIVERSITY OF MARY WASHINGTON) 11.30AM–1.15PM PANEL 9: ARCHAISTS AND INNOVATORS CHAIR: IRENA GRUDZINSKA GROSS (PRINCETON UNIVERSITY) Assembling Point for New Urbanites: Architectural DA RI A BO CH A RN I KOVA Complex of the Uralmash Factory Square, 1930–1970 (ST. PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY) “We Are not Going to Copy Constructivism!” or A NYA BOKOV (YALE UNIVERSITY) Parallel Experiments In Soviet Architecture: From VKhUTEMAS to EDAS DISCUSSANT: JOSHUA KOTIN (PRINCETON UNIVERSITY) Melnikov House: www.melnikovhouse.org | Melnikov House-inspired ring by Gourji