A Re-Enactment of the 1920s Debates presented by the Retro-Formalism Group in cooperation with Marxism in Culture (University of London) and the Institute for Modern and Contemporary Culture (University of Westminster) June 4.-5th 2015 Organised by David Cunningham, Anke Hennig, Anthony Iles more

The So-Called Formalist Method (1923) more

Video Essay for Split Screen based on the Berlin-novel “ZOO, or Letters not about Love” (1923) by the Soviet Writer Viktor Shklovsky Germany, 2006 weiterlesen more

Evening roundtable at the Marxism in Culture Seminar (Senate House, Torrington room) Chaired by Larne Abse Gogarty & Gail Day Re-enactment of the Marxist-Formalist Debate Participants: David Cunningham, Anke Hennig, Anthony Iles, Marina Vishmidt more

Shklovsky begins his seminal text, "Art as Device", with critiques of diverse formulations of the ‘laws’ of economy governing creative effort and perception in poetic and prose language. more

На нашем втором семинаре мы сосредоточимся на рискованной попытке отстранить Формализм от Авангарда, разорвать их привычную тавтологию, если не тождество. Для этого мы решили сконцентрироваться на судьбе формализма в 1930-е годы, когда негативная идентификация формализма с авангардом стала почти тотальной. дальше more weiterlesen