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From the editors FOREWORD DESTINATION Aleksandr Sologubov CULTURE IN A "FOREIGN" SPACE: AN INTRODUCTION Ivan Chechot TO GENIUS LOCI KALININGRAD AND KOENIGSBERG Wolfgang Eichwede KALININGRAD IN THE YEAR 2020 - A NOT QUITE FICTITIOUS CONVERSATION Aleksandr Sologubov DESTINATION - KALININGRAD PHRASE BOOK Aleksandr Sologubov FROM KALININGRAD DICTIONARY MAP OF THE CITY Anatolii Bakhtin UGLY KOENIGSBERG Elena Gladkova FORMA URBIS. SYMBOLIC PARALLELS Valery Orlov IN OR OUT SOUTHERN STATION Ivan Chechot THE RAILWAY STATION AND ENTRANCE TO THE CITY OF KALININGRAD CROSSROADS Aleksandr Popadin BINARY STATES OF "K" CITY Eugeny Umansky, Karpenko-Karpenko KATYANASTYA IN THE CENTER Andrei Monastyrsky, Sabina Haensgen EMPTY CENTER K. Pavel Nastin COURTYARD-WELL COMMUNICATIONS Artem Advokat GRAFFITI Elena Tsvetaeva FOLK GRAFFITI Marek Wolodzko FOLLOWING SILENT WORDS FA+ (Ingrid Falk & Gustavo Aguerre) THE MYTHICAL FOUNDATION OF KALININGRAD Aleksandr Sologubov MICROTOPONYMY PRETERITION: KNEIPHOF ISLAND Aleksandr Sologubov THE CATHEDRAL Aleksandr Popadin ERECTING BRIDGES Ivan Chechot THE BRIDGES AND "THE PREGEL'S ODOR" John Craig Freeman, Greg Ulmer IMAGING KALININGRAD: THE SEVEN BRIGES OF KOENIGSBERG STOA KANTIANA Anatolii Bakhtin FORGOTTEN KANT AND THE KANT-BRAND IN KOENIGSBERG Aleksandr Sologubov KANT Olga Lopukhova KANT'S TOMB Erika Wolf KANT'S BRIDES: A READYMADE PHOTOGRAPHIC CHRONOTOPE Ivan Chechot THE CATHEDRAL AND KANT FOR EVERYONE, OR IS GOD FEARSOME WITHOUT MORAL THE CASTLE OF SOVIETS Aleksandr Sologubov THE ROYAL CASTLE Igor Sacharov-Ross WINE CELLAR Dali Rust A WHITE SEAGULL ABOVE THE CITY: THE SYMBOLS OF THE OLD NEW CITY Joanna Sandell WRITING OF DREAMS RAKETA LIGHT UP DOM SOVETOV Aleksandr Sologubov THE HOUSE OF SOVIETS GERMANS Ilya Dementiev THE MOST PROFOUND SECRET OF ONE KOENIGSBERG LAWYER: HOFFMANN KudaBegutSobaki A LEGEND ABOUT FIVE LITTLE ULRICHEN AND FERRYMAN ANDRE Peter Wunsch KOENIGSBERG-KALININGRAD. THE TASTE OF MARZIPAN Aleksandr Sologubov THE COUNTRY OF PENSIONERS - OR THE GERMANS Martin Huettel QWERTZ MOSCOW PERSPECTIVE Olga Sezneva CONCRETE ELEMENTS OF KALININGRAD Agnieszka Wolodzko HABITATION UNITS Werner Moeller THE UNDREAMED OF CITY Oleg Vasiutin TOWN PLANNING MATHEMATICS Mark Borozna MOSKOVSKII PROSPECT & THE SHADOWS AROUND ALTSTADT OUR TOWER Ivan Chechot KRONPRINZ Elena Tsvetaeva THE TOWER-REDAN "KRONPRINZ" THE KRONPRINZ TOWER. Projects for the National Centre for Contemporary Arts by Students of the Institute for Theory and Design in Architecture (Braunschweig, Germany) OUR PRIDE Aleksandr Sologubov AMBER Aleksandr Sologubov ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES Ivan Chechot THE AMBER ROOM BASTIONS Avenir Ovsyanov BASTIONS IN DIAMONDS AND EMERALDS Rostan Tavasiev LITTLE BRICKS THE MARKET Ivan Chechot THE HOUSE OF MACHINERY: THE RECONSTRACTION AND EXPLOITATION OF THE POPULATION V.I.P. (Very Interesting Person) Elena Tsvetaeva SERGEI TIMOFEEVICH PLACE OF EXECUTION Bert Hoppe TRACES OF A VIRTUAL HISTORY IN A VERY REAL CITY CSC ROC Aleksandr Sologubov CHRIST THE SAVIOR CATHEDRAL TRAM Aleksandr Sologubov LIFE AND EGGS (A sketch about trams) SKART LUCKY TICKET MEETING POINT Aleksandr Popadin THE BULLS Ivan Chechot GAUL'S FOUNTAIN Ivan Chechot A STROLL THROUGH THE CENTER Aleksandr Popadin IN THE FLOW: FOUNTAIN SEASON Aleksandr Popadin NINE Elena Tsygankova WILD WEST OF RUSSIA THE ZOO Irina Kozhevnikova ZOO Ingeborg Strobl ANIMALS IN KALININGRAD AND A MOSAIC Elena Tsvetaeva KOENIGSBERG CATS MEMENTO MORE Avenir Ovsianov KOENIGSBERG'S SPIRITUAL HERITAGE IN TONS, ITEMS AND SACKS. From the history of lost and found cultural heritage Aleksandr Sologubov KALININ PARK Aleksandr Popadin WE ALL ARE GOING TO BE THERE Aleksandr Sologubov MONUMENTS Irina Kozhevnikova MONUMENT TO 1200 GUARDSMEN IN KALININGRAD Roger Palmer BRIEF MEMORIALS MATTER AND SPIRIT Aleksandr Sologubov MYSTICISM Aleksandr Popadin FRAGMENT OF A SYMPHONY FOR SLOW READING: IVANOV AND HIS SURROUNDINGS Evgenii Umanskii ATTIC OF RECOGNITION Aleksandr Sologubov STOVES Dmitrii Vyshemirskii MAN AND WOMAN Lana Vyshemirskaya THE SMALL SCULPTURE "GIRL" ON THE STREET Evgenii Umanskii CHANUKAH Aleksandr Popadin CUBIC PAVEMENT Igor Isaev, Dmitrii Demidenko SEWER HATCHES Aleksandr Popadin THE FIRE HYDRANT Irina Kozhevnikova TRADITIONS Kalle Brolin, Kristina Muntzing POTENTIAL PLACE Aleksandr Popadin THE WATERFALL HERACLES' BOLT V.I.P. (Very Interesting Person) Manuela NATASHA POTERYASHINA. Inteview ATMOSPHERE Aleksandr Sologubov TO BE IN THE MOOD FOR PACKING Aleksandr Popadin ALL-WEATHER KALININGRADIANS Dmitrii Bulatov, Pavel Savel'ev ACEPHALUS: OPTICAL MODELS Mark Borozna LIGHT THE CRYSTALS OF KALININGRAD! THE HARBOR Evgenii Kazannik PORT Aleksandr Ponomarev THE GATES SUBURBS Avenir Ovsyanov THE BRIDGE THAT THE "RUSSIANS COULDN'T PULL DOWN" Elena Tsvetaeva THE ROAD TO BERLIN: FROM EPIC TO BANAL. Interview with Valerii Bugrov Aleksandr Popadin HOAR-STONES AND BOUNDARY SYMBOLS Aleksandr Popadin MUSCOVITES ARE HANGING Anders Kreuger BEFORE THE CITY |
ART-GUIDE: KOENIGSBERG/KALININGRAD NOW ORGANISERS Kaliningrad Branch of the National Centre for Contemporary Arts NGO Agency for the Support of Cultural Initiatives "Tranzit", Kaliningrad, Russia Project Conception: Sergei Sazonov, Elena Tsvetaeva Project Director: Elena Tsvetaeva Curators and Managers: Danil Akimov, Iuliia Bardun, Anastasiia Karpenko Web Design: Evgenii Palamarchuk Participants: Evgeny Umansky, Yury Vasiliev, Dmitrii Bulatov, Elena Gladkova, Irina Pokrant, Aleksandr Popadin, Aleksandr Sologubov, Irina Chesnokova PROJECT REALISED WITH THE GENEROUS SUPPORT OF The Federal Agency for Culture and Film (Russia) The European Cultural Foundation (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) The Ford Foundation (Moscow, Russia) CREDITS Editor-in-Chief: Elena Tsvetaeva Editor: Ivan Chechot Editor and Proofreader for English Edition: Erika Wolf Co-Editors: Anastasiia Karpenko, Danil Akimov Designers: Iurii Vassil'ev, Evgenii Umanskii Image Processing: Konstantin Baryshev Cover Photograph: Konstantin Baryshev TRANSLATION Natal'ia Andreeva, Iuliia Bardun, Elena Gladkova, Anna Matveeva, Sergei Mikhailov, Andrei Portniagin, Liza Shevchenko, Nina Shtok, Inga Vassil'eva, Ol'ga Zaiachkovskaia MEDIA SUPPORT Kaskad Independent TV and Radio Company (Kaliningrad) State TV and Radio Broadcasting Company (Kaliningrad) "pH" Pro-Contemporary Art Edition (NCCA, Kaliningrad Branch) GTRK Kaliningrad ENGLISH EDITOR'S NOTE ON THE TRANSLITERATION SYSTEM: With a few exceptions, Editor has used the Library of Congress system of transliteration, without diacritical marks, throughout this volume. Exceptions are in the case of well-known Russian words or names, such as Yeltsin. © 2005 The authors: text, photographs THE ORGANISERS ARE GRATEFUL FOR THE SUPPORT AND ASSISTANCE OF Leonid Bazhanov, Mikhail Mindlin, Pavel Filippovskii, Dmitrii Machabeli (NCCA, Moscow) Vanessa Reed, Esther Claassen, Philipp Dietachmair (European Cultural Foundation, Amsterdam) Irina Iurna, Ekaterina Solomina (Ford Foundation, Moscow) Ol'ga Kotovskaia, Igor Rostov, Mark Borozna, Svetlana Kolbaneva, Ekaterina Karpenko, Karina Pintiiskaia (Kaskad Independent TV and Radio Company, Kaliningrad) Wolfgang Eichwede (Bremen) Lara Eichwede (Technische Universitat, Braunschweig) Ol'ga Bolytcheva (Rossiiskaia gazeta, Kaliningrad) Tat'iana Bykovskaia (St. Petersburg) Thomas Wohlfahrt, Raik Stolzenberg (Literaturwerkstatt, Berlin) Deirdre Glynn (Kaliningrad - Galway) Monika Gruetters (Stiftung Brandenburger Tor, Berlin) Il'ia Dement'ev (Youth for Freedom of Speech NGO Centre, Kaliningrad) Ol'ga Kovaleva (State TV and Radio Broadcasting Company, Kaliningrad) Anatolii Makhlov (Iantarnyi Skaz Publishing House, Kaliningrad) Sergei Matveev (TENAX Ltd., Kaliningrad) Andrei Popov (Department of Culture of the Administration of the Kaliningrad Region) Sergei Sazonov (Moscow) Anna Maria Svensson (Swedish Institute, Stockholm) Gennadii Semenov (Curonian Spit National Park, Kaliningrad Region) Tat'iana Suvorova (Amber Museum, Kaliningrad) Alla Fedorova (State Archive of the Kaliningrad Region) Nina Iarygina (Kaliningrad) Special thanks are due to Ivan Chechot, Aleksandr Popadin and Erika Wolf for their active assistance in preparation of the edition. PRESENTATION On 4 May 2005 a formal presentation of the project took place within the framework of the round table "Jubilee as a chance? 750 years of Kaliningrad and Koenigsberg" at the Max Liebermann Haus, Berlin, Germany. This roundtable was organised by the Berlin organisations Literaturwerkstatt and Stiftung Brandenburger Tor. On 5 July 2005 the formal presentation of the project "Art-guide. Koenigsberg/Kaliningrad Now" took place at the Kronprinz Tower, Kaliningrad, the future residence of the Kaliningrad Branch of NCCA. On 15 December 2005 presentation of english version of "Art-guide. Koenigsberg/Kaliningrad Now" took place at "Royal gates" centre, Kaliningrad. CONTACTS Kaliningrad Branch of the National Centre for Contemporary Arts 236000 Russia, Kaliningrad, P.O. Box 1582 fax/tel: +7-4012-595105, 595109 e-mail: tsvetaeva@ncca.koenig.ru http://www.ncca-kaliningrad.ru/art-guide Agency for Support of Cultural Initiatives "Tranzit" 236000 Russia, Kaliningrad, Dm. Donskogo st. 7/11 office 512 fax/tel: +7-4012-578802 e-mail: ybardoun@yahoo.com |
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