dear spectrites, for those of you who didn't know, Monroe ... Vlad Mamyshev-Monroe, one the St.Petersburg former 'New Academy' movement stars par excellence and co-founder of Moscow 'Pirate TV', died on March 16th, in Bali, Indonesia. Monroe, whose work was perhaps the most cutting edge and cataclysmically revealing of early post-Soviet society had also become a veritable icon in the struggle for freedom of expression in today's Putin stranglehold on Russia.
Joseph Backstein, who "puts him in the same league as Marina Abramovic" tributes Mamyshev-Monroe, the charismatic, sharp performance artist at: http://calvertjournal.com/comment/show/624/life-as-art-joseph-backstein-remembers-iconic-performance-artist-vladislav Many of us, who were first introduced to Monroe's video works (i.e. 'A Bad Mark Again') at ostranenie93 will fondly remember and greatly miss a poetically crazed artist and genius, very much in a uniquely masterful class of his own! cheers, Stephen ------------------------------------------------------------------- r0g_agency for open culture and critical transformation supermarkt studio 3 brunnenstrasse 69 13355 berlin +49 170 5887806 r0g-media.org tweet @intertwilight // ------------------ // ** THANKS for recent r0g_EVENTS ** Sourcefabric interview @soundcloud with South Sudan Warrap State Gov. Nyandeng Malek Dielic https://soundcloud.com/sourcefabric/governor-nyandeng-warrap-state Open Systems Solutions @UNESCO WSIS+10 Review Paris, Mar 25 - 27, 2013 https://www.unesco-ci.org/cmscore/events/10-open-solutions-addressing-global-challenges MEDIA & MAKERS: JUBA 2012 (#MMJUBA) Juba, Dec 10 - 13, 2012 Open Knowledge & Sustainable Media Forum2 http://media-and-makers.tumblr.com/ http://www.facebook.com/events/482451018455628 WIKITOPIA Hong Kong, Jan 19 - 20, 2013 http://videotage.org.hk/project/wikitopia-keynote-and-panel-discussion/ // ------------------ // ______________________________________________ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre