Conceptualization of the Political/Aesthetic Relationship: Between Relational Aesthetics and Anarcho-Realism

The problem of my research can be stated as which limitations political tradition of contemporary art implies in terms of relational aesthetics, relational antagonism, new institutionalism and anarcho-realist maxim? Despite the fact that there were attempts to analyze the context of contemporary Russian art as connected with political protest, the majority of them were based upon two main figures of Pyotr Pavlenskyi and Pussy Riot who explicitly blur the boundaries between activism and contemporary art. Their analysis does not aim to articulate genealogy and the biggest part of the works can be described as case-studies. I am going to overcome that lack in my research. Therefore, aim of my research is the conceptualization the political/aesthetic relationship: between relational aesthetics and anarchy-realism. The objectives of my research are to analyze which trends are present in the Russian context. Chronological limitations of my research are defined by the limitations of the presence of new institutionalism in the western context that can be defined by the 2003. My methods and theoretical framework might be described through the analytical works I am going to use in my analysis works, therefore I will combine art-critique with the aesthetic and sociological review of art works and theories that describe them.