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THE PASTOR MAGAZINE
Pastor is a specialty journal that examines key issues of contemporary art, art theory, literature, and philosophy. Along with the MANI Files and the MANI Papers, it represents the tradition of small-run publications of the Moscow Conceptual School. Founded in Cologne in January 1992, the journal is illustrated by contemporary Moscow artists. Publisher and editor: Vadim Zakharov together with Maria Porudominskaya
AUTHORS: Nikita Alexeev, Yuri Albert, Sergei Anufriev, Ilya Kabakov, Yuri Leiderman, Igor Makarevich and Elena Elagina, Andrei Monastyrsky, Vladimir Naumez, Pavel Pepperstein, Viktor Pivovarov, Dmitri Prigov, Larisa Rezun-Zvezdochetova, Vladimir Sorokin, Nadezhda Stolpovskaya, Alexander Yulikov, Konstantin Zvezdochetov, Ivan Chuikov and others
The Pastor Magazine
Pastor No. 1: Names. 1992
Pastor No. 2: Geography. 1992
Pastor No. 3: Our Polygraphy. 1993
Pastor No. 4: Our Future. 1994
Pastor No. 5: Emigration and Wayfarers. 1995
Pastor No. 6: How I Became an Artist
(with Yuri Albert). 1997
Pastor No. 7: Pathology and Norm
(with P. Pepperstein and A. Monastyrsky). 1999
Pastor No. 8: The Eastern Tradition in the Moscow Conceptual School. 2001
Print runs:
Pastor 1 – 30 copies,
Pastors 2–5 – 50 copies,
Pastor 6 – 60 copies,
Pastors 7–8 – 100 copies.
Contents of Pastors Magazines 1-8
Pastor 1 (1992)
Theme: Names
From the Publisher
Nikita Alexeev / Alexey Nikitin 7
Andrei Monastyrsky / Sabine Haensgen 11
Andrei Monastyrsky 17
Yury Leiderman 27
Dmitry Aleksandrovich Prigov 35
Ilya Kabakov 51
Sergey Anufriev / Pavel Pepperstein 61
Yuri Albert 69
Appendix 1 & 2
The list of authors is given in accordance with the order
in which materials were received
Pastor 2 (1993)
Theme: Geography
Vadim Zakharov FROM THE PUBLISHER
Vladimir Porudominsky NOTES ON PUSHKIN
Lev Rubinstein I AM HERE
Terry Atkinson THE INDEXING, THE WORLD WAR I MOVES, AND THE RUINS OF CONCEPTUALISM
Sergey Anufriev THE ENVIRONS OF MOSCOW
Pavel Pepperstein A BIRCH-BARK HUT AND AN ICE HUT
Andrey Filippov EAST AND WEST
Nikita Alekseev FROM KROPOTKINSKY ALLEYWAY TO THE ALLEY OF THE WHITE QUEEN
Yury Leiderman THE MEMORY OF WANDERINGS
Exhibitions, actions, projects...
A. Monastyrsky “A Journey to the West”
N. Panitkov, I. Makarevich, A. Monastyrsky “Beyond the Ring Road”
E. Romanova, E. Selina “Topography”
V. Fents “Art Motherland Art”
Archival Materials
S. Haensgen “Video Library”
V. Zakharov “Video Documents of a Family Chronicle”
Drawings on an assigned theme I. Chuikov, K. Zvezdochetov
Pastor 3 (1993)
Theme: Our Book Arts
From the Publisher
Ilya Kabakov A CONVERSATION WITH THE PUBLISHER
Alexander Yulikov A CONVERSATION WITH THE PUBLISHER
Dmitry Aleksandrovich Prigov A CONVERSATION WITH THE PUBLISHER
Yury Leiderman THE TOP HAS ALREADY FALLEN ON ITS SIDE
Viktor Pivovarov THREE LITTLE BOOKS IN A HEAVENLY GARDEN
Sergey Anufriev, Pavel Pepperstein LITTLE FRAME
Igor Makarevich UNTITLED
Erik Bulatov, Oleg Vasiliev ABOUT OUR BOOK ILLUSTRATIONS
Yuri Albert THE NEW BOOK ART
Nadezhda Stolpovskaya ON THE NATURE OF CHILDREN’S ILLUSTRATIONS
Andrey Filippov, Eduard Gorokhovsky, Vladimir Sorokin, Nikita Alekseev, Sergey Mironenko,
Maria Konstantinova, Irina Nakhova, Nikolay Kozlov, Vadim Zakharov
Archival Materials
Vladimir Porudominsky A LITTLE BIT ABOUT PUSHKIN’S CONTEMPORARY
Vadim Zakharov MANI FOLDERS
Andrey Monastyrsky ABOUT THE MANI PAPERS
Andrey Monastyrsky FIVE VOLUMES OF TRIPS TO THE COUNTRYSIDE
Gunther Hirt, Sascha Wonders A TALKING ARCHIVE
Exhibitions, actions, projects... L Gallery, Tryokhprudny Gallery
Boris Groys FROM THE CATALOGUE
Pastor 4 (1994)
Theme: Our Future
Vadim Zakharov From the Publisher
Boris Groys, Pavel Pepperstein PASTORIAL CONVERSATIONS – Theme: Our Future
Sven Gundlakh THREE KNOTS ON A WAFFLE TOWEL
Andrey Monastyrsky, Sabina Haensgen DIRECTIVE FOR THE FUTURE
Mikhail Ryklin
Nikolay Panitkov GATES
Dmitry Aleksanrovich Prigov TELL ME, BROTHER, ABOUT YOUR FUTURE, AND I WILL TELL YOU WHO YOU ARE, BROTHER
Yuri Albert DOES OUR PAST HAVE A FUTURE
Viktor Pivovarov PLAN FOR THE FUTURE EXHIBITION AN AGENT IN NORWAY
Sergey Anufriev, Pavel Pepperstein DUNAEV’S DREAMS ABOUT THE FUTURE. Selections from the novel
“The Mythogenic Love of Castes”.
Pavel Pepperstein. STALEMATE AND MATE. Commentaries on «Dunaev's Dreams about the Future.»
Igor Shelkovsky SHIFTS IN TIME
Ilya Kabakov NOT EVERYONE WILL BE TAKEN INTO THE FUTURE
Konstantin Zvezdochetov PREDICTIONS, VIDELICET PROUST'S ORACLE
Pastor’s Questionnaire: Nikita Alekseev, Eduard Gorokhovsky, Boris Groys, Elena Elagina, Francisco Infante, Ilya Kitup,
Igor Makarevich, A. M. and V.S., Konstantin Zvezdochetov, Andrey Filippov, Vladimir Yankilevsky
Illustrations on an assigned theme: Ivan Chuykov, Yuri Albert, Nadezhda Stolpovskaya, Vadim Zakharov, Vladimir Naumetz
Exhibitions, catalogues... Curves of the Year 2000
Pastor 5 (1995)
Theme: Emigration and Wanderers
Mikhail Sukhotin PAGES JUST IN CASE 5
Vitaly Komar, Vadim Zakharov CONVERSATION IN AACHEN 13
Viktor Pivovarov RECLAMATION OF LOST TIME 25
Ilya Kabakov, Boris Groys DIALOGUE ABOUT THE WEST 31
Vasily Shchukin THE WEST AS THE SPACE OF ‘ROMANTIC ESCAPE’ 55
Dmitry Aleksandrovich Prigov A VIEW OF A RUSSIAN GRAVE
FROM GERMANY 69
Leonid Lamm, Inessa Levkova-Lamm EMIGRATION AS A MEANS OF LIFE 85
Kharlampy Oroshakov WITH STEEL TEETH INTO THE LOST AVANT-GARDE 91
Vladimir Porudominsky LUEBECK 97
Nikolay Vasilievich Gogol LETTER TO A.V. and E.V. 101
Sergey Anufriev, Sabina Haensgen, Masha Chuykova LETTER TO MONASTYRSKY 104
Igor Burikhin ... ? TO WESTERN QUESTIONS 109
Editorial Insertion THE PUBLICATIONS OF RUSSIAN EMIGRATION 114
Natalia Nikitina, Igor Shelkovsky ABOUT A-YA 120
Igor Shelkovsky THE PERPETUAL TEENAGER SAVENKO 130
Pavel Pepperstein LITTLE CUSTARD PIE 137
Viktor Tupitsyn TEXTUALITY / TEXTANALITY (Emigration that is always with you) 149
Sergey Anufriev THE PARAMEN OF THE BORDER 162
Anatoly Zhuravlyov NOTES ON BRAZIL OR NOTHING SPECIAL 171
Actions, Projects... 175
Sabina Haensgen, Andrey Monastyrsky FLYING A KITE IN PRORA 177
Yury Leiderman VALENCE PROJECT 181
Vadim Zakharov SLUICE #3 - JAPAN 184
Rainer Gemahl TRAVELING LINGUISTICS 189
Exhibitions, catalogues, publications... 201
Appendix 207
Pastor 6 (1997)
Theme: How I Became an Artist
(In Collaboration with Yuri Albert)
Vadim Zakharov FROM THE PUBLISHER 5
Yuri Albert WHO I WANTED TO BE OR THE PARAMEN OF REAL
ART PAGE NUMBER
Vladimir Nemukhin MEMORIES IN COLOGNE 9
Oscar Rabin 21 • Yury Zlotnikov 23 • Mikhail Roginsky 28 • Ilya Kabakov 29 • Oleg Vasiliev 37 • Erik Bulatov 45
Ivan Chuykov HOW I BECAME AN ARTIST 47
Viktor Pivovarov BECAME AN ARTIST LIKE ME 61
Vladimir Yankilevsky HOW I BECAME AN ARTIST 68
Igor Shelkovsky FIRST IMPRESSIONS 71
Vitaly Komar HOW I BECAME AN ARTIST 14
Alexander Melamid 89
Dmitry Aleksandrovich Prigov ARTISTIC NOTES 97
Alexander Yulikov 120 • Francisco Infante 109 • Natalia Abalakova 113
Vladimir Naumez FIXATION ON FOUR POINTS 121
Andrey Monastyrsky HOW I STOPPED BEING AN ARTIST 125
Nikita Alekseev AN ARTIST? 127
Georgy Kizevalter HOW I BECAME AN ARTIST... 129
Mikhail Sukhotin IMPRESSIONS OF IMPRESSIONS 132
Konstantin Zvezdochetov 138
Larisa Rezun-Zvezdochetova HOW I BECAME AN ARTIST OR... 139
Vladimir Mironenko WHY DID I BECOME AN ARTIST? 141
Vadim Zakharov THE CONFESSION OF THE GRANDSON OF THE FIRST SECRETARY OF THE GORKOM AND... 143
Yury Leiderman 149
Xaralampi G. Oroschakoff WHY I BECAME AN ARTIST 150
Sergey Anufriev HOW I BECAME AN ARTIST 153
Pavel Pepperstein A MEETING IN THE MOUNTAINS WITH A CRETIN 167
Sergey Anufriev, Pavel Pepperstein PARAMEN 172
Andrey Royter ON HOW I BECAME AN ARTIST 190
Maria Chuikova HOW I BECAME AN ARTIST 191
Georgy Litichevsky 194
Anatoly Osmolovsky BRIEFING NOTE 202
Dmitry Aronov 203
Pastor 7 (1999)
Theme: Pathologies and the Norm
(In Collaboration with Pavel Pepperstein and Andrey Monastyrsky)
From the Publisher: THE FIGURE OF OMISSION IS THE NORM 5
Evgeny Vitkovsky CABLE 9
Vadim Zakharov CRIMINAL WALKS THROUGH PRAGUE 69
Andrey Viktorovich, Pavel Vitalievich THE ICE ROBOT 79
Sergey Anufriev, Pavel Pepperstein NARCISSUS AND A NARCOTIC 84
Igor Makarevich UNTITLED 103
Nikolay Sheptulin COZY LOST TIME 105
Anton Nosik THE COMPUTER AS THE ORIGIN OF PSYCHOLOGICAL DISORDERS 107
Alexander Suponitsky COFFEE IS OUT?! 116
Sergey Anufriev, Vladimir Fyodorov THE GENEROUS BARMIN 121
Sergey Anufriev UZUZUN-CHILD 125
Andrey Monastyrsky KD [COLLECTIVE ACTIONS] ACTIONS: LIKHOBORKA, NEGATIVES 127
Foreword of the Aeromonk Sergiy 128
Addenda to the Promotions of February 18, 1996 129
Questionnaire for issue #7 of Pastor and answers given by: Elena Elagina, Igor Makarevich, Ilya Kabakov, Viktor Tupitsyn 136
Vadim Zakharov PATHOLOGY AND NORM 143
Andrey Monastyrsky Foreword from the Editor 157
GLOSSARY OF TERMS OF THE MOSCOW CONCEPTUAL SCHOOL 160
Appendix Inessa Levkova-Lamm IN MEMORY OF LIDA SOOSTER 243
Pastor 8 (2001)
Theme: The Eastern Tradition in the
Moscow Conceptual School
Nikolay Panitkov, Vadim Zakharov THINGS OF ONE’S OWN AND OF OTHERS 5
Nikita Alexeev, Vadim Zakharov ORTHODOX BUDDHIST 21
Ilya Kabakov, Vadim Zakharov A CONVERSATION ABOUT THE EAST NEAR... 35
Pavel Pepperstein, Yury Semyonov, Vadim Zakharov PHANTOM SPACE 53
Pavel Pepperstein COMMENTARY ON THE EXHIBITION SHIZOKITAY 65
Andrey Monastyrsky ABOUT THE EAST 69
Andrey Monastyrsky THE HISTORY OF TZI-TZI 74
Sabina Haensgen, Andrey Monastyrsky SUN-UKUN IN MAGRITTE’S NATIVE LAND 78
Armen Bugayan UNTITLED 83
Yury Leiderman IRRIGATION FIELDS 87
Viktor Pivovarov MY CHINESE 107
Igor Shelkovsky JAPANESE SERIES 113
Dmitry Aleksandrovich Prigov IN THE PEARLY LAND OF BAO DAI 121
Dmitry Aleksandrovich Prigov TWENTY SIX SONG OF THE LITTLE
OLD ASIAN MAN 130
Natalia Abalakova FOR LACK OF A REASON... 137
Natalia Abalakova, Anatoly Zhigalov TWENTY ONE FINGERS 142
Francisco Infante IN THE DIRECTION OF THE EAST 147
Irina Pivovarova FROM THE CYCLE RUSSIAN-JAPANESE POEMS 155
Mikhail Sukhotin ДЫР БУЛ ЩЫЛ ПО У ЧЭН-ЭНЮ 161
Larisa Rezun-Zvezdochetova INDIAN NOTES 171
Konstantin Zvezdochetov THREE DAO QUESTIONS 177
Andrey Filippov UNTITLED 183
Nadezhda Stolpovskaya ON THE INFLUENCE OF THE EAST... 185
Vadim Zakharov JAPANESE NOTEBOOKS 189
Sergey Anufriev YELLOW HOKKU 209
Sergey Anufriev, Maria Chuykova, Sabina Haensgen LETTER... 212
Yuri Albert THE MAGICAL BRUSH OF MA LIANG 225
Vladimir Levashov AN EXPERIMENT IN SEMANTIC RECONSTRUCTION... 235
Vladimir Sorokin CHINESE WORDS AND EXPRESSIONS... 247