The first season continues the Garage Archive Commissions program, which involves the creation of new works by artists as a result of their involvement with Garage Archive Collection.

Looking at the history of nonconformism and the musical underground, such as Siberian noise and electronics, Krasnodar poetry performance, the chronicles of the Leningrad Rock Club or the archives of Pirate TV, the authors explore the countercultural practices of the (post)Soviet era and reconstruct little-known episodes.

The project is part of Garage Archive Commissions, where artists create new works based on materials in Garage Archive Collection.

Archive consultants: Irina Gakhova, Anastasia Tarassowa, Maria Udovydchenko

Cover image: Viktor Pivovarov in Prague, 1999. Still from a working version of Yulia Ovchinnikova’s film Viktor Pivovarov: Artist and Personality, Garage Archive Collection (Nina Zaretskaya archive, TV Gallery)