CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
                                                                          IN OPEN ARTISTIC PROJECT
                                                                          "NO SEX/ NO DRUGS / NO R&R
                                                                          (the exhibition of art passed by the censor) or ARTISTS FORBID"
                                                                          Novosibirsk, Russia
                                                                          February 22 ,2001
                                                                          ENTRY DEADLINE : FEBRUARY 15, 2001

                                                                          Organizer:
                                                                          Yury Kondratyuk's Foundation, not-for-profit organization, Novosibirsk in the
                                                                          frames of "The New House of Culture" project (under the support of Ford
                                                                          Foundation)
                                                                          Chief curator : Konstantin Skotnikov
                                                                          Co-curators : Dmitry Bulnygin, Slava Mizin
                                                                          Technical support : Alexey Tarkov, Igor Popovitch
                                                                          Project Conception: In the period of several post war decades in the USA and
                                                                          Europe , as well as in Russia in the 90-ties, the ultra radical tendencies such as
                                                                          situationism, actionism, contecstualism played a prominent role in contemporary
                                                                          arts. The violation of any taboo existed in the society has become the basis of
                                                                          these artists' activities. This practice can be justified from a certain experimental
                                                                          point of view, namely : so far as the psyche of a contemporary person is
                                                                          subjected to the destructive influences of sociogenic character radical art has to
                                                                          offer its audience the original vaccine against social syndromes. But not prepared
                                                                          audience consider this vaccine as an intoxication.
                                                                          The neo-radical tendency proposes to refuse from art-vaccination of audience,
                                                                          from radicalistic representation of different painful aspects of life in art , namely :
                                                                          violance, death, blood, criminal, sex, perversion, taboo vocabulary, everything
                                                                          that is to be adopted by censors.
                                                                          To participate in the project the artists are invited to present their artistic works
                                                                          where in any case "sex", "drugs" and "rock-and-roll" are forbidden, blamed or
                                                                          ostrasized. The motto of the exhibition is : ARTISTS FORBID! So, the actual
                                                                          artists have the opportunity to come to meet the cenzoring discourse of
                                                                          guazi-loyal audience.
                                                                          The first presentation of the project in multimedia format is to be on the
                                                                          expositional spaces of the "Black Widow" club and Yury Kondratyuk's Foundation,
                                                                          Novosibirsk (the exact dates are to be announced on the site
                                                                          www.inart.newmail.ru).