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Garage Art Book Fair & Museum Night
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May 20-21
Garage Museum of Contemporary Art 
 Since its foundation in 2008 Garage has focused its publishing activities on books on contemporary art, theory and history of culture, architecture, design, and photography in Russian. Striving to spur interest in books on art and gather together leading publishers, Garage initiated the first Art Book Fair in 2016. This year, the event will also become a part of the annual Museum Night. Specially for the fair, Garage will be releasing Martha Graham's "Blood Memory", the autobiography of the famous dancer and choreographer which starts the new book series Garage Dance on the history and theory of modern dance. Martha Graham (1894 - 1991) was one of the most prominent representatives of modern dance. The book will be presented by the series editor and contemporary dance historian Vita Khlopova.
Other two new books in the joint publishing program with Ad Marginem Press are: "How to Write about Contemporary Art" by Gilda Williams and "Dress code: The Naked Truth about Fashion" by Marie Grinde Arntzen. On May 21, the author of Dress code, Arntzen, a Norwegian journalist, will personally present her book and talk about the fashion industry in the broader context of the consumer society and show how fashion has become a means of self-identification, socialization, and power. During the presentation of "How to Write about Contemporary Art" art critic Gilda Williams and Garage curator Valentin Dyakonov will discuss the challenges of transferring visual experience into words, the difference between explanatory and evaluating texts, and which tricks are better be avoided when writing texts about art.
The program for Museum Night will start with an interactive game by Garage Teens Team, based on the Museum’s collection—the world's largest archive on the history of Russian contemporary art. Adults and children will take part in the exciting journey through Russian art after the fall of USSR. Participants will feel the atmosphere of the emerging free art world and recreate the brightest events in the cultural life of the time.
 The next special Museum Night event will feature Alexander Tsypkin’s Literature Readings. Museum Edition. The project combines literature and theater, aiming at the promotion and popularization of contemporary Russian prose. Visitors will hear texts written by Narine Abgaryan, Andrey Astvatsaturov, Alexander Malenkov, Alexander Snegirev, Masha Traub, Sasha Filipenko and Aleksandr Tsypkin and united by the theme of the museum and museum experience.
Sunday, May 21, will start with the Family Day at Garage. It is a great opportunity for children and adults to have fun and learn in a museum. The program includes workshops, sketching tours, and special offers on children’s books at Garage Bookshop.
The evening will bring a Moscow presentation of the Poetry Readings at the New Holland Festival, conceived as a creative platform for performances of local and international poets working in very different linguistic and stylistic manners. The project’s main goal is to fill the shortage of international literary festivals in Russia and introduce contemporary poetry to the broader audience. The first Poetry Readings at the New Holland in St. Petersburg have been created by Mark Shatunovsky and Dmitry Golynko. The festival is divided into two panels, which represent different views on the structure of the modern poetic space and the issues that dominate in poetry. Visitors will hear poems by Yuri Arabov, Polina Barskova, Charles Bernstein, Ivan Zhdanov, Maxim Zhukov, Katya Kapovich, Igor Karaulov, Eugene Ostashevsky, Vanessa Place, Alexey Porvin, Vitaly Pukhanov, and Alexander Skidan.
Schedule of Garage Art Book Fair and Museum Night:
Saturday, May 20:
16:00–17:30 Presentation of "Blood Memory" by Martha Graham;
16:00–17:30 Presentation of "How to Write about Contemporary Art" by Gilda Williams;
16:00–19:00 Museum Night: Garage Teens Team Quest Around 1990s Culture and the Art Market Garage;
20:00–22:00 Museum Night: Alexander Tsypkin’s Literature Readings. Museum Edition;
Sunday, May 21:
13:00–17:00 Family Day at Garage;
14:00–15:30 Presentation of "Dress code: The Naked Truth about Fashion" by Marie Grinde Arntzen;
17:00–18:30 Poetry Readings at the New Holland Festival.
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