https://avenirinstitute.info/blog daily 0.75 2020-10-30 https://avenirinstitute.info/blog/2020/10/31/the-pythian-school-of-futures monthly 0.5 2020-10-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55e2e62ee4b01c33a57a0145/1604141619522-HQEWTVNTMFI7FJONVHDV/Screenshot+2020-10-31+at+10.51.36.png Blog - The Pythian School of Futures https://avenirinstitute.info/blog/2020/1/20/the-trial-of-zeus monthly 0.5 2020-01-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55e2e62ee4b01c33a57a0145/1579531112437-9OF15LIUUO86TSVS6TAU/Picture+1.png Blog - THE TRIAL OF ZEUS https://avenirinstitute.info/blog/2019/9/20/aeropolitics monthly 0.5 2019-09-20 https://avenirinstitute.info/blog/2019/5/23/the-penelopiad-project-a-performative-introduction monthly 0.5 2019-05-23 https://avenirinstitute.info/blog/2019/5/15/the-pythian-games-of-futures monthly 0.5 2019-05-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55e2e62ee4b01c33a57a0145/1557936295249-JFT3F0Q3ABLH9WYY842X/Pythain+Games+of+Futures_image_lecture_Venice+2019.png Blog - The Pythian Games of Futures AVENIR INSTITUTE. “The Pronaia Foresight Centre and The Thrice-Born Avenirologic Centre”, 2019 https://avenirinstitute.info/blog/2018/12/21/avenirologic-hymns-to-orpheus-mnemosyne-icarus-andromeda-prometheus-and-dionysus monthly 0.5 2018-12-21 https://avenirinstitute.info/blog/2018/12/3/suprapolitics-1 monthly 0.5 2018-12-03 https://avenirinstitute.info/blog/2018/10/27/avenirologic-hymn-to-gaia monthly 0.5 2018-10-27 https://avenirinstitute.info/blog/2018/9/3/the-micropolitical-ecology-in-the-age-of-data monthly 0.5 2018-09-03 https://avenirinstitute.info/blog/2018/8/23/theoxenia-as-politics-for-shared-futures monthly 0.5 2018-08-23 https://avenirinstitute.info/blog/2018/8/5/xenia-as-protocol-ideography-for-shared-futures monthly 0.5 2018-08-05 https://avenirinstitute.info/blog/2018/7/16/futures-theogony-libretto-of-the-narrative-opera-in-4-acts monthly 0.5 2018-07-16 https://avenirinstitute.info/blog/2018/4/16/power-and-utopia monthly 0.5 2018-12-17 https://avenirinstitute.info/blog/2017/11/21/mythology-for-queer-futures-and-potentiality-of-athena-dionysian-justice monthly 0.5 2017-11-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55e2e62ee4b01c33a57a0145/1511258668640-PFQWT1ZFC71RN8UNSHQU/athenadion.JPG Blog - Mythology for Queer Futures and Potentiality of Athena-Dionysian Justice Marble head of Dionysos (from Piraeus, late 4th c. BC) / Marble head of Athena with Corinthian helmet (reign of Hadrian) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55e2e62ee4b01c33a57a0145/1511258897282-5AJM6RKJ1BZTAJGIQNJB/IMG_1310+3.JPG Blog - Mythology for Queer Futures and Potentiality of Athena-Dionysian Justice Andrea Brocca. Hera brings image of Eris in the mind of Zeus after his quarrel with Athena(from illustrations for Mythology for Queer Futures), London, 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55e2e62ee4b01c33a57a0145/1511258944362-83GBBQV27M00E4WU4ATU/IMG_1422.JPG Blog - Mythology for Queer Futures and Potentiality of Athena-Dionysian Justice Andrea Brocca. The “Other” Olympians before the storm: Athena, Dionysus & Hephaestus (from illustrations for Mythology for Queer Futures), London, 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55e2e62ee4b01c33a57a0145/1511259170946-K5DIWOHZL5UJ5KYOWWIK/IMG_1528.JPG Blog - Mythology for Queer Futures and Potentiality of Athena-Dionysian Justice Andrea Brocca. Nike emerges from the clash of thunderbolts (from illustrations for Mythology for Queer Futures), London, 2017 https://avenirinstitute.info/blog/2017/10/11/this-storm-is-what-we-call-progress monthly 0.5 2018-12-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55e2e62ee4b01c33a57a0145/1507720036406-I81CI9JP3KG7PC3TPR38/22338866_10155790521065967_2829604576121312877_o.jpg Blog - This Storm Is What We Call Progress Denis Maksimov/AVENIR INSTITUTE reading "This Storm is What We Call Progress" https://avenirinstitute.info/blog/2017/2/27/imperialism-post-ex-ante monthly 0.5 2018-12-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55e2e62ee4b01c33a57a0145/1488214153934-ZW9OPI3QGA67ES86TRQ6/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Imperialism post-ex-ante AVENIR INSTITUTE, 'Imperialism post-ex-ante', installation/lecture-performance, Projeto Fidalga, Sao Paulo, Brazil (2017). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55e2e62ee4b01c33a57a0145/1488215930618-PTYOAYY6MMHT3Z3TJYFM/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Imperialism post-ex-ante AVENIR INSTITUTE, 'Imperialism post-ex-ante', installation/lecture-performance, Projeto Fidalga, Sao Paulo, Brazil (2017) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55e2e62ee4b01c33a57a0145/1488215981052-TI07SXFZIYYXZ6QKGHH2/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Imperialism post-ex-ante AVENIR INSTITUTE, 'Imperialism post-ex-ante', installation/lecture-performance, Projeto Fidalga, Sao Paulo, Brazil (2017). https://avenirinstitute.info/blog/2017/1/10/post-vr-society-and-politics monthly 0.5 2018-12-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55e2e62ee4b01c33a57a0145/1484048225694-H2H6VX2HUYQHU946XWI4/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Post-VR: Society and Politics illustration by Denis Maksimov/AVENIR INSTITUTE https://avenirinstitute.info/blog/2016/8/12/present-visuality-and-thingness-of-trans-ethnography-in-the-context-of-unrealised-future-in-the-past monthly 0.5 2016-08-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55e2e62ee4b01c33a57a0145/1471014025437-4T6LT0E560K47BZ472N2/image.jpg Blog - Present Visuality and Thingness of Trans-Ethnography in the Context of Unrealised Future in the Past courtesy of Liva Dudareva (METASITU)   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55e2e62ee4b01c33a57a0145/1471014328585-ZRA0LPYB6I4R497R2KK7/image.jpg Blog - Present Visuality and Thingness of Trans-Ethnography in the Context of Unrealised Future in the Past https://avenirinstitute.info/blog/2016/8/4/bureau-for-public-insecurities-a-conversation-between-curators-denis-maksimov-dm-and-caroline-carrion-cc monthly 0.5 2016-08-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55e2e62ee4b01c33a57a0145/1470315633566-HTU80F0HC5OCY31MKA76/image.jpg Blog - Bureau for Public Insecurities: a conversation between curators Denis Maksimov (DM) and Caroline Carrion (CC) curatorial duo DNV [dan'etvɐzmoʐnə], Caroline Carrion and Denis Maksimov https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55e2e62ee4b01c33a57a0145/1470464446524-UDKJWN80TA7HIWF1E5QH/image.jpg Blog - Bureau for Public Insecurities: a conversation between curators Denis Maksimov (DM) and Caroline Carrion (CC) Giuditta Vendrame in collaboration with Fiona du Mesnildot, 'Mixed Passports', 2015 https://avenirinstitute.info/blog/2016/8/4/we-have-hardly-yet-begun monthly 0.5 2016-08-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55e2e62ee4b01c33a57a0145/1470306636550-9TX39YRU0IFTAJ9T1COT/image.jpg Blog - We have hardly yet begun image by Node Center for Curatorial Studies https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55e2e62ee4b01c33a57a0145/1470307134080-1ZY2O0PSPBGOETE70XR5/image.jpg Blog - We have hardly yet begun screenshot of We have hardly yet begun, 2015, Joseph Popper. Originally produced for The Victoria & Albert Museum, London © The V&A https://avenirinstitute.info/blog/2016/6/27/the-nationless-pavilion-for-the-future-of-community-after-nation-state monthly 0.5 2017-09-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55e2e62ee4b01c33a57a0145/1467013740075-NOW9BEYMIE1XMDD40ZGP/4_31.jpg Blog - The Nationless Pavilion: for the Future of Community after Nation State The Nationless Pavilion Laboratory heald by Denis Maksimov, image of the Leviathan, Sale Docks Venice 2015. Photo © Mohamed Keita https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55e2e62ee4b01c33a57a0145/1467014142012-ANMGAYCU2PNX7T791UZ1/5_32.jpg Blog - The Nationless Pavilion: for the Future of Community after Nation State The Nationless Pavilion, Nation 25 Under Construction, Installation view, Sale Docks, Venice 2015 © Nation25 https://avenirinstitute.info/blog/2016/6/10/the-dilemma-of-superposition-robot-companies-and-human-imperfections monthly 0.5 2018-12-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55e2e62ee4b01c33a57a0145/1465585184417-YDQ14NEUYMP6Q181I1E5/image-asset.png Blog - The dilemma of superposition: robot companies and human imperfections 'Ghost in the Shell', 1995 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55e2e62ee4b01c33a57a0145/1465585222278-F0WRF76B2078AHND67WP/image-asset.png Blog - The dilemma of superposition: robot companies and human imperfections Timo Tuominen/AVENIR INSTITUTE, 'AI-dentity', 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55e2e62ee4b01c33a57a0145/1465585439321-PFXRGB00FJPCDAQZ30TS/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The dilemma of superposition: robot companies and human imperfections 'Blade Runner', 1982 https://avenirinstitute.info/blog/2016/5/12/the-aesthetic-as-a-component-of-an-artistic monthly 0.5 2018-12-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55e2e62ee4b01c33a57a0145/1463209828675-GAW9E7Q6666NBOVB2KSP/image-asset.png Blog - The artistic in aesthetic and the politics of loyalty (c) The New Yorker https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55e2e62ee4b01c33a57a0145/1463211540827-6IO6TPH3N1ND6N1DEH0K/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The artistic in aesthetic and the politics of loyalty Denis Maksimov/AVENIR INSTITUTE https://avenirinstitute.info/blog/2016/1/11/essay-in-the-aftermath-of-the-workshop-starbucks-franchises-personally-managed-by-joseph-stalin-and-other-avenirs-of-the-internet monthly 0.5 2018-12-17 https://avenirinstitute.info/blog/2015/9/12/presentation-of-manifestion-at-the-creative-time-summit-in-venice monthly 0.5 2018-12-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55e2e62ee4b01c33a57a0145/1465586604174-ORHBQUPJ07C0HQMESDNN/image-asset.png Blog - Avenir Manifesto AVENIR INSTITUTE, 'Avenirology', 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55e2e62ee4b01c33a57a0145/1465586916528-YVWD8UCOLJRW7VRONQD0/image-asset.png Blog - Avenir Manifesto AVENIR INSTITUTE, 'Expanded Poetry', 2015 https://avenirinstitute.info/blog/tag/Peter+Osborne monthly 0.5 https://avenirinstitute.info/blog/tag/politics monthly 0.5 https://avenirinstitute.info/blog/tag/Hieronymus+Bosch monthly 0.5 https://avenirinstitute.info/blog/tag/Camille+Henrot monthly 0.5 https://avenirinstitute.info/blog/tag/Niccolo+Machiavelli monthly 0.5 https://avenirinstitute.info/blog/tag/Lucas+Cranach monthly 0.5 https://avenirinstitute.info/blog/tag/Berlin+Biennale monthly 0.5 https://avenirinstitute.info/blog/tag/Martha+Rosler monthly 0.5 https://avenirinstitute.info/blog/tag/Jon+Rafman monthly 0.5 https://avenirinstitute.info/blog/tag/aesthetics monthly 0.5 https://avenirinstitute.info/blog/tag/Katja+Novitskova monthly 0.5 https://avenirinstitute.info/works daily 0.75 2023-08-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55e2e62ee4b01c33a57a0145/1692481359126-23UMAM4BZVR3J70QFKYD/image-asset.png Works - State of Noland, ongoing https://www.stateofnoland.info https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55e2e62ee4b01c33a57a0145/1692481359126-23UMAM4BZVR3J70QFKYD/image-asset.png Works - State of Noland, ongoing https://www.stateofnoland.info https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55e2e62ee4b01c33a57a0145/1574688388695-GOBJX7EOLJ9C2FMIOQ67/Encyc+of+Unrealised+Futures.JPG Works - "Encyclopaedia of Unrealised Futures - Escaping the Everlasting Present", workshop, Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht (NL), 2019 History is a cemetery filled with the unrealised futures’ graves. It has the centralised monumental pathway which conveniently makes sense while leading towards the socio-political currents, which is presented as the logical outcome of historical processes. Biographies of Churchill, Hitler, Napoleon, etc that are re-published anew every year, solidifying the ‘main pathway’ of that spectacular graveyard. The reaffirmed meta-message is: there could not have been any other outcome and our fate is sealed. We are in a sort of bunker of an everlasting present where the only possible future appears to be walking along this monumental alley of overly celebrated (mostly male and white) figureheads that cross-justify one another. We need to escape it. The participants of this workshop are invited to revive the alternative futures in the past by collectively identifying, mapping and performing their “thingness” or potentiality: the reason of nostalgia and relevance, which often can’t be easily elaborated in wording. Each participant is asked to contribute an object that, according to them, contains “thingness” of the unrealised future that could have but yet didn’t happen. The choice of an unrealised future can be motivated by political, historical, personal, or any other subjective qualities. Turning these possible narratives into catalysers or ignition devices, we will be setting up a political theatre of alternatives as an escape from the bunker of the everlasting present. We will aim to create loopholes in the systems that constitute our given conditions and project ourselves onto that future(s) that were (and still are?) a possibility. Can the “thingness” be extracted and weaponised as a tool of resistance? Can it be synergised? The workshop nests in the context of Avenir Institute’s research seminar F(r)ictions aimed at the deconstruction of the aesthetic and narrative fabric of history, revelation of the alternative possible futures and building up the speculation as if they had happened. https://www.janvaneyck.nl/en/news/denis-maksimov/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55e2e62ee4b01c33a57a0145/1573983856313-TJW8XN9AAO3Q559PGWQT/Game+of+Futures+2.jpg Works - "The Game of Futures II", marble and plastic, 2019 A sculptural materialization of the game of power developed by Avenir Institute in St Petersburg: “The project departs from the critical theory and the theory of futures, embedded in gamification mechanisms from popular board games, played by the people of all generations. The board game consist of a board in the shape of the map of Russia, the game pieces representing the various centres of possible futures (medicine, communication technology, energy, etc.), the score coins that are distributed by chance, and political leader figures, whose function in the game is to close the towers of possible futures into one fixed ‘the future’ - a gesture that allows to claim the scores for players. Each player places pieces on the map, which is carefully balanced on an elevated stand. The higher the tower and the further from the centre of the map it is built, the more points the player claims at the point of topping the tower with a political leader. The players can build on each other’s towers, but the one who started the tower and the one who closed it with the political leader gets the most points. The players cannot put coins on the map arbitrarily and move their tokens as in Draughts (or Checkers). The players, while building towers, have to mind the balance of the platform: in case towers are not built carefully, the platform can incline and collapse “the game of futures” for everyone. The winner of ‘The Game of Futures II’ defines the core of the desirable future scenario: based on the type of events (avenirs) their tokens represent. None of the scenarios of futures is right or wrong: the competitive character and the critical nature of the game are reflected in the relativity of the gameplay and the role of luck along with strategic considerations - crucial for the resilience and balance of the platform.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55e2e62ee4b01c33a57a0145/1569058132903-C68B5C2YTI2ZBKLNZDGG/nx6a0020.00_38_43_14.still054.JPG Works - "The Trial of Zeus", performative dialogue, Copenhagen (DK), 2019 The performance was part of the event Queering the Museum at Ny Carsberg Glyptotek during Pride Week 2019. The event is curated by Michael Haldrup and Denis Maksimov. The text of The Trial of Zeus is written by Denis Maksimov. The performance of the wounded amazon is choreographed by Linh Le. Photos are from a film by Filip Vest. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55e2e62ee4b01c33a57a0145/1570628495742-64C52YI4X3VS0WFJMQUB/IMG_0243_color.JPG Works - “The Face of Power circa 2019”, 2019, marble A collage of the profiles of Angela Merkel, Jair Bolsonaro, Jacinda Andern, Xi Jinping and Narendra Modi — the faces of seemingly different power styles and geopolitically distant forces. This sculpture superpositions the profile of a leader with that of the king from the game of chess. Is there life after the king has lost? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55e2e62ee4b01c33a57a0145/1574687801951-FYU9XH5IPP0OEX5NN37H/nx6a0020.00_38_43_14.still054.jpeg Works - "The Trial of Zeus", performative dialogue, Copenhagen (DK), 2019 The performance was part of the event Queering the Museum at Ny Carsberg Glyptotek during Pride Week 2019. The event is curated by Michael Haldrup and Denis Maksimov. The text of The Trial of Zeus is written by Denis Maksimov. The performance of the wounded amazon is choreographed by Linh Le. Photos are from a film by Filip Vest. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55e2e62ee4b01c33a57a0145/1558873634031-BSZL0Y0K750WGOLT3W4E/qRscVmlw.jpg Works - "The Penelopiad Project: A Performative Reading Introduction" with Jeanne Pansard-Besson, lecture-performance, Venice (IT), 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55e2e62ee4b01c33a57a0145/1558873562033-LMUTXAKV1DSIX1PJ9YRV/IMG_4040.JPG Works - "The Pythian Games of Futures", lecture-performance, Venice (IT), 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55e2e62ee4b01c33a57a0145/1558628574723-W6TZ0OSWTYXWLM9UNG98/Pythain+Games+of+Futures_image_lecture_Venice+2019.PNG Works - “The Pronaia Foresight Centre and The Thrice-Born Avenirologic Centre”, 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55e2e62ee4b01c33a57a0145/1558874008447-Z7ACWMBOHYICY7H0WAYW/IMG_3340.jpg Works - "The Palace of (Soft) Power", panel talk with Alena Ledeneva, Jasmina Cibic & Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll; Venice (IT), 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55e2e62ee4b01c33a57a0145/1548497708964-L8HVUIV9S7V7689XH8M6/Screenshot+2019-01-26+at+10.14.35.png Works - "Avenirologic Hymns", poetry/video/enactment (with Florent Frizet, Macklin Kowal), Athens (GR), 2018 Avenirologic Hymns (video - http://hdkepler.net/en/projects) Text: Denis Maksimov Interpretation: Macklin Kowal Camera & Editing: Joshua Olsthoorn In the frame of Dedication, an exhibition by Florent Frizet Sub Rosa, Athens 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55e2e62ee4b01c33a57a0145/1545003627611-V21P6OF86BBKL3CT97F8/Queering+As+The+Agency+of+Revealing+Possible_Copenhagen.JPG Works - "Queering as Agency of Revealing the Possible", Roskilde University Centre, Copenhagen (DK) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55e2e62ee4b01c33a57a0145/1544423061770-3I1GIRVM134H4U4XPART/46831441_290449718255236_7469338931113230336_o.jpg Works - "Dramaturgia: Exporting Russian Machiavellianism", lecture, UCL Institute of Advanced Studies, London (UK), 2018 listen to the audio recording https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55e2e62ee4b01c33a57a0145/1544423292542-OY6XXKRA8QV3JT5IZ57F/46492044_1083830525124404_617031584612089856_o.jpg Works - "Anticipatory Design", lecture, The New School, New York (US), 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55e2e62ee4b01c33a57a0145/1544423487609-90J4H6PMSPM45QHHK1GQ/45320330_10156707071770967_3677688475890483200_n.jpg Works - "Anticipatory Mythography and Critical Ideography: The Case of Medusa", lecture, Institute for Art and Art Theory, University of Cologne (DE), 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55e2e62ee4b01c33a57a0145/1537527917041-Z62FP527I5JB2YD76K2N/image-asset.jpeg Works - "Comparative Anticipatory Mythography. Ireland and Greece", Fire Station Studios, Dublin (IE) Denis presented the method of anticipatory mythography for designing desirable futures of transnational socio-political imaginary, challenging the normalised geographical and historical limits. During his stay in Ireland, he explored potential of the comparative analysis of Ancient Greek and Ancient Irish mythographies. He also spoke about the interdisciplinary work of Avenir Institute with the subject of potentiality in futures, specifically focusing on ongoing projects within the dimensions of (un)known (un)knowns, desirable futures and freaktions. He elaborated on avenirology as futures-oriented transdisciplinary methodology and critical analysis aesthetico-political configurations in anthropology, theology and history in his curatorial, research and writing practice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55e2e62ee4b01c33a57a0145/1535962159018-3O6GJ4O6E73U6YFI9H54/image-asset.jpeg Works - "Suprapolitics and Micropolitical Ecology", 2018 Utopian thinking and alternative imaginaries, based on the grounds of contemporary art, wouldn’t of course replace or be a political struggle in any way. But they are capable and potent of confusing the norms and structures, that are appear in minds of majorities as physical, while in fact they are just fantasies, like nation states, cultures or hard borders. Utopian thinking through has to become pro-active in order to obtain the agency of inspiring and motivating too instigate fundamental change. It’s not the question of another cosmetic makeover: this won’t work any longer. Suprapolitics unites all approaches of decoupling political imaginary from the land as the tabula rasa. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55e2e62ee4b01c33a57a0145/1535473939834-UXC56T7XSL1R979IA11G/Screen+Shot+2018-08-28+at+18.31.08.png Works - "Xenia as Protocol for Shared Futures", Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw (PL), 2017 The talk was presented in the framework of the seminar “Hospitality as a Strategy of Building Communities” at Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art in Warsaw, PL, on July 1, 2018. Full panel - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsbEfgj43vE&t=2324s https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55e2e62ee4b01c33a57a0145/1533468186464-8JG16CTIC1NLNOQNPTWG/Screen+Shot+2018-08-05+at+14.17.33.png Works - "The Diplomatic Mission of State of Noland in The United Kingdom", multimedia installation, 2018 exhibited in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (UK), in June 2018. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55e2e62ee4b01c33a57a0145/1533467906904-WGR7B1C9EL0S8ZS44WVE/IMG_0605.JPG Works - "State(s) of Noland", digital video installation, 2018 shown as exhibited at the Victoria & Albert Museum in June 2018, London (UK). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55e2e62ee4b01c33a57a0145/1545777028347-W6HVW9G1O17WL88PNAF8/Screenshot+2018-12-25+at+14.30.08.png Works - AVENIR INSTITUTE, "State of Noland", state-after-state in progress, 2017-ongoing Become a citizen —> www.stateofnoland.info https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55e2e62ee4b01c33a57a0145/1533467984961-B1ZSRC67LA6TBBB66NTI/identity+card.JPG Works - "The Identity Card of a Nolandian", printed plastic, 2018 exhibited in CCI Fabrika in Moscow (RU), in May 2018; in Victoria & Albert Museum in London (UK), in June 2018. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55e2e62ee4b01c33a57a0145/1533467113463-B59PUR9KHE9ZEGCD68IO/image-asset.jpeg Works - "On hospitality", 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55e2e62ee4b01c33a57a0145/1533466236159-M00XLFXIT5HGV9VMF3CA/Ben%28d%29ghazi%2C+2018.JPG Works - "Ben(d)ghazi", digital collage, 2018 From the series Post-Normal Politics. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55e2e62ee4b01c33a57a0145/1533467477155-JATDH6NTL687QT69UT6O/State+of+Noland+in+Russia.JPG Works - "The Diplomatic Mission of State of Noland in Russian Federation", installation (24 aluminium prints and 2 printed flags), 2018 unique; exhibited at Agency of Singular Investigations in CCI Fabrika, Moscow (RU), in May 2018. The large rhizomatic map, consisting of 24 panels, is aesthetically resembling the illustration of Thomas More's Utopia. The largest panels (quadrat in shape) feature the eight fundamental elements of the nation state, named in Latin: "institutio" (institutionalised governance), "symbolum" (symbolic materialisation of the state, such as flag, anthem, coat of arms, etc), "cultura" (the designation of the national culture), "educatio" (national education system), "disciplina" (civil order), "tributa" (judicial system), "vis" (image of an external enemy, danger or evil), "hostis" (image of an internal enemy, danger or evil). All the panels feature imaginary lnadscapes, which are named in accordance with the leading thinkers, concepts, agents, events, etc that contributed to the naturalisation the imaginary of the nation state (for example, "Peak of Morgenthau", "Forest of Legitimacy", "River Westphalia", etc). All together, the conceptual map is a superposition of naturalised but imaginary elements that constitute materiality of the nation state. The map, which in itself acts as coat of arms (somewhat nullifying the imaginary of the nation state), is installed in between of the two hanging banners of State of Noland - which feature a joint representation of the superimposed symbols of the queer agents of power from Ancient Greek mythology, Athena and Dionysus (among them owl, panthers, pine cone). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55e2e62ee4b01c33a57a0145/1526388668115-1ZSQZ0K2E0YEG6X9L3W8/39930989590_4b839e843d_o.jpg Works - "steɪt əv nəʊlænd [State of Noland]: on potent futures post- sovereignty, nationalism & imperialism" The nation state is a modern fiction: a result of the conceptual intercourse between a sovereign introduced by Thomas Hobbes in “Leviathan” and the imperialist and nationalist ideologies of the nineteenth century. Despite all the criticism of it, it is approached as a fundamental component of the political order, an everlasting tabula rasa for (re)structuring power. We suggest an alternative ideology for political self-organisation: steɪt əv nəʊlænd [State of Noland]: a 'state of mind’ of not aligning with any geopolitical entity and a 'state-after-state’ as a constellation of practices that functionally replace nation-state monopoly. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55e2e62ee4b01c33a57a0145/1533468378928-VYKCZJC9HC40KPPMGXHE/State+of+Noland_symmetric+coat+of+arms.PNG Works - "The Coat of Arms of State of Noland", 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55e2e62ee4b01c33a57a0145/1533467331466-EWRQ6RRX2NUHBFNWCC4P/AthenaDionysian.jpg Works - “Athena-Dionysian Justice”, four 50 x 50 cm aluminium prints, 2018 unique; exhibited: “Queer Futures”, Mimosa House, London (March - May 2018). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55e2e62ee4b01c33a57a0145/1535472933877-LLATKU1T17KNW25LL9HG/Screen+Shot+2018-08-28+at+18.13.31.png Works - "Queering Mythography for Alternative Futures", Mimosa House, London (UK) Hesiod’s Theogony is a profoundly political poem that introduced deities to embody the concepts of justice, good governance, social peace, strife, war and others. These deities and the hierarchal relations between them, such as structuring the world around patriach-Zeus, left a fundamental mark on contemporary understanding and interpretation of socio-political imaginary and ‘normality’. In this lecture-performance, Avenir Institute presented this timeless context first introduced by Theogony. The focus is on Zeus, Athena and Dionysos, as representations of past, present and alternative futures. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55e2e62ee4b01c33a57a0145/1521715196522-PFNTB0KZLL2QPEH9WFHD/30D3FEEC-7D06-45D0-BD40-40179384201B.jpeg Works - “Zeusian Justice”, 50 x 50 cm aluminium print, 2018 unique; exhibited: “Queer Futures”, Mimosa House, London (March - May 2018). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55e2e62ee4b01c33a57a0145/1526471047297-8TYCG0XO6NY0V6RGZZW5/Screen+Shot+2018-05-16+at+14.43.31.png Works - "Political Ethics and AI: (Im)Perfect Futures", IV Ural Industrial Biennale of Contemporary Art, Ekaterinburg, Russia Может ли ИИ управлять политическими институтами? Способен ли ИИ стать правовым субъектом? Денис Максимов, независимый куратор, основатель фабрики мысли Avenir Institute (http://www.avenirinstitute.info/), рассуждает об этических коллизиях, связанных с ИИ. И немного внимания уделяет отношениям котиков и роботов. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55e2e62ee4b01c33a57a0145/1502366760355-JP799M4N1QRHD044TCRB/IMG_4973s2.jpg Works - "Less Than Three", book (limited edition, signed), 2017 "Less Than Three" is a 36-pages book, which defines the Ancient Greek terms for attraction before the introduction of the word "love" as a common denominator for all the possible diversity in the infinite range of possible feelings and relationships between people. Each type of affection (eros, agape, paignidi, philautia, philia, pragma) is defined in the encyclopaedic form and accompanied by a poem. The text is printed in a circular shape, allowing to create from each perfect-square page an origami of individual rose. The 6 roses will be presented alongside with the book. It was developed by Avenir Institute upon invitation by Brazilian artist Sandra Cinto and Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center (CAC) and will be on the permanent display in CAC from October 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55e2e62ee4b01c33a57a0145/1527857067741-43IFRTN6TE4MAYDWG2BX/state+of+noland+Brussels.jpg Works - "State of Noland - towards a post-nationhood world?", lecture-performance, Brussels (BE), 2017 Nation state is a modern fiction. We don't need alternatives - we need an alternative thinking about the alternatives. In the lecture-performance, Avenir Institute presents a concept of "organs without the body" in relation to statehood, reversing the proposed notions of Deleuze & Guattari and theatre of cruelty of Artaud. Audio: https://audioboom.com/posts/5898507-state-of-noland-towards-a-post-nationhood-world https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55e2e62ee4b01c33a57a0145/1545004800159-SUN4HJE4IL0UBTXIDPTI/Screenshot+2018-12-16+at+15.59.18.png Works - "Imperialism post-ex-ante", lecture-performance/installation, Sao Paulo (BR), 2017 The lecture-performance took place at the opening of the exhibition of Avenir Institute "Against the Future". The exhibition is a result of the residency of co-founders of the Institute, Denis Maksimov and Timo Tuominen, at Atelier Fidalga (Residência Paulo Reis) in February-March 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55e2e62ee4b01c33a57a0145/1489845023353-2LRH4L72RGGVPL5WAHSM/Against+the+Future+photo+book.JPG Works - "Against the Future", publication (limited edition, signed), 2017 The publication contains mind maps of futures thinking terminology and the selection of the texts, written by the Institute in 2015-2016 in different contexts, where the terms are directly or indirectly employed. The aesthetic form of the book is a "working paper": the reader is invited to deconstruct the book physically, intervene with her comments, writings and doodles; share pages or parts of the book. download pdf https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55e2e62ee4b01c33a57a0145/1540643855938-AAPGEE0ACEVU0KI5XBR8/Avenir+Institute%2C+Epistemological+Singularity%2C+2017.PNG Works - "Epistemological Singularity", 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55e2e62ee4b01c33a57a0145/1489844436364-9TUMFANM2P5ADQZE73BY/_DSC8518.jpg Works - "Institutional Twilight/Hemera & Nyx", black painted brass, 2017 Institutional Twilight /ˌinstəˈt(y)o͞oSH(ə)n(ə)l ˈtwīˌlīt/ a state of ambiguity, or gradual decline of the strict forms of organization at the intersec- tions between the respective areas of authority of a multiplicity of complex, hierarchical social and political institutions. Hemera /ˈhɛmərə/ the personification of day and one of the ancient Greek primordial deities. Her husband was her brother Aether (Light), with whom she gave birth to Thalassa (Sea), Uranus (Heavens) and Gaia (Earth). According to Hesiod's Theogony, Hemera left Tartarus just as Nyx entered it; when Hemera returned, Nyx left. Nyx /ˈnɪks/ the personification of night and one of the ancient Greek goddesses. A shadowy figure, Nyx stood at or near the beginning of creation and mothered other personified deities such as Hypnos (Sleep) and Thanatos (Death), with Erebus (Darkness). Her appearances are sparse in surviving mythology, but reveal her as a figure of such exceptional power and beauty that she is feared by Zeus himself. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55e2e62ee4b01c33a57a0145/1489843681478-ML4CVF410UUB32BSYSY5/_DSC8512.jpg Works - "The Temple of Futures Thinking", total installation, Sao Paulo (BR), 2017 As a summary of the think tank’s transdisciplinary researches between 2015 and 2016, Avenir Institute presents the total installation Temple of Futures Thinking. The political theologist Carl Schmitt argued about the nature of political as inherently religious. The belief in the sacred nature of the non-visualisable notions of ‘social contract’ or ‘democracy’ is quite proximate to the assurance in life after death, the existence of karma and so forth. Why then to settle for a limited one-dimensionality of monotheistic and autocratic teachings of the books? The Temple of Futures Thinking is critical: it does not o er answers on the eternal questions, but it twists the processes of re ection about their roots. Knowledges are in nitely plural as are the possible interpretations of thinking patterns. Just like in Ancient Greek mythology, the literal is poetic and the poetic is literal. It is the superposition of human intellectual and emotional intelligence. The total installation consists of 7 brass mind maps with the core terms for contemporary futures thinking introduced by the Institute, the lecture- performance “The Epistemology of Border”, which digs critically in the nature of enclosed systemic thinking, and the publication “Against the Future or Building the Temple of Futures Thinking”. In the midst of the socio-political search for a new modernity, triggered by the perceived collapse of the postmodern promise, and the settling for the convenient refuge in nostalgia, we o er a focus on futures thinking as the way to replace the blind simplicity with a beautiful and multidimensional complexity. If we are anthropologically inclined to believe in something, let it be the belief in the limitlessness of human potentiality. Presented in Projeto Fidalga in Sao Paulo, Brazil. download catalogue of the exhibition https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55e2e62ee4b01c33a57a0145/1487979349818-BBWYUCNC44REKLFJZDC4/Avenir+in+the+Book.jpg Works - "Do You Remember the Future?", lecture-performance, Brussels (BE), 2017 "It may be that the growth of science and engineering inevitably outstrips the development of political expertise, leading to disaster" - recently noted by Brian Cox, an Advanced Fellow of particle physics in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manchester. One of the paramount issues about futures of the humanity is its possible resilience to the socio-political paradoxes of behavioural (ir)rationality. While technological progress constantly multiplies the speed of changes and expands the vision of the 'possible', political staleness is resulting in an illusion of an everlasting present of anthropological time. The staleness and the illustion together keep the common conciousness (even if it exists) in a flat state. What are the perks of the expanding distance between technology and politics? Can epistemology and hermeneutics become pro-active agents? What role does art play in the constant misbalance? Lecture-performance was organised as a result of the research residency of Avenir Institute in January in Brussels, Belgium. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55e2e62ee4b01c33a57a0145/1482259663806-MEQ26TOO0I1GIEH9XYLG/Screen+Shot+2016-12-20+at+19.48.19.png Works - "Do You Remember the Future?", music mix (with Filthy French), 2016 "The think tank Avenir Institute has collaborated with Filthy French on a mood board / slow dance mix, which premiered at the opening of the installation “Moirai Realität” on December 1st 2016. The mix features voices of the Institute co-founders, a curator and critic Denis Maksimov (RU/BE) & artist and designer Timo Tuominen (FI). Critical texts 'Avenir Manifesto' and ‘We have hardly yet begun’ are intertwined with energetic and uplifting beats." Listen to it here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55e2e62ee4b01c33a57a0145/1482259123257-4200MVV0C3LTDDCQK7QD/Moirai+Realitat.JPG Works - "Moirai Realitat", public installation/performance. 2016 Moirai Realität is a mixed media performance and installation, developed upon invitation from Platform-Berlin. It is a critical reflection on the process of narrating, legitimising and consuming the subjective "real" in the age of media. As Nietzsche murdered the divinity and post-modernism granted access to ultimate freedom in designing one's values and perceptions, the new normal shifted towards somewhat confusing personalised pick-and-choose 'curation' out of the randomness of ever-increasing information flow. Moirai are the goddesses-witches in the Greek Mythology that stitch the carpet of fate for both wo(man) and Gods. They were among few characters feared even by the Olympians. The installation consists of the set of printed statements on the walls of the Platform and the numbered balls, which are drawn from the bowl to be turned into a fresh narration of a constructed reality. The order of drawing the balls by the performers sums up in a reason-consequence sequence, which is in fact randomly composed by impartial "moirai": beyond morals, strategies and schemes. The public installation is on display 24/7 from December 1 till 31 at U-Bhf Kleistpark upper level in Berlin Schoneberg.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55e2e62ee4b01c33a57a0145/1482261553299-YNIYCISXZBIP4NWWSX32/VR.JPG Works - "Post-VR: Society and Politics", lecture-performance, Futurice, London (UK). 2016 "...The single ’real’ is overpopulated. It is competitive, as of entering in conflict ethical and value systems, and polluted with ever-increasing amount of information about the world’s complexities from an infinite number of perspectives. The pressure of coexistence between the alternative visions of moral, ethical and political is becoming more unbearable both within and beyond the different political entities. For a example a cleavage of American and British electorate between pro-nationalist, pro-liberal and those who choose to abstain paint a picture of the fundamentally fractured visions of futures co-existing in the same time-space. What if the possibility to generate alternative realities will be offered for the situations where compromise is not obtainable? The VR fused with augmented reality set can provide to both Israeli and Palestinian opportunity to see Jerusalem as their sole capital..." (exerpt) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55e2e62ee4b01c33a57a0145/1478258937097-F0MAA729DQJ8FGO67FQH/PB010320.JPG Works - "The Game of Futures #2", sculpture/installation/board game, 2016 Avenir Institute developed 'The Game of Futures #2' together with the members of the youth club 'Sreda’ during the month of the residency in St Petersburg, invited by TOK Curators. The project departs from the critical theory and the theory of futures, embedded in gamification mechanisms from popular board games, played by the people of all generations, the young people in particular, in St Petersburg and beyond. ‘The Game of Futures #2’ is an installation, a sculpture and a board game that consists of a game board the shape of the map of the modern Russia, game pieces of several types, representing the various centres of possible futures (medicine, communication technology, energy, etc.). It also includes score coins that are distributed by chance, and political leader figures, whose function in the game is to close the towers of futures into ‘the future’ and claim the scores for players. The players have to mind the balance of the platform: in case towers are not evenly built, the platform can incline and collapse the game of futures for everyone. The winner in ‘The Game of Futures #2’ defines the core of the desirable future scenario: based on the type of events (avenirs) his/her coins represent. None of the scenarios of futures is right or wrong: the competitive character and the critical nature of the game are reflected in the relativity of the gameplay and the role of luck along with strategic considerations - crucial for the resilience and balance of the platform. The installation/game is produced at the Fab Lab in the St Petersburg State Polytechnic University. The fourth season of 'Critical Mass' is supported by: Sector for uth licy and llaboration with blic ganizations of the Administration of the Petrogradskiy strict Nordic Culture Fund FRAME Finnish Visual Art Foundation Taiga Space https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55e2e62ee4b01c33a57a0145/1477863808420-D4AJWC6QLJ1M2ZX95GDK/IMG_0927.JPG Works - "Critical Geopolitics", installation/sculpture. 2016 The installation/sculpture was presented in the group exhibition "Be a Guest in My Possible Future" (part of the Bonus Block of the 1st Worldwide Studio and Apartment Biennale) in Kotelnicheckaya Embankment Building in Moscow, Russia, in October 13-17, 2016. The installation was designed in Belgium and the United Kingdom and produced in London in 2016. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55e2e62ee4b01c33a57a0145/1476085146746-K4B27YUL2MBVNPI94ZNR/4oct+%282%29.JPG Works - "Critical Mass: Youth, Public Space and Mindsets", art talk, Taiga Art Space, St Petersburg (RU), 2016 Avenir Institute presented the concepts of ‘avenirology’ and ‘everlasting present’, that it has been working on since it’s initiation, as well as some of the projects it has been working on. The Institute Subjective Future Scenarios department’s methodology is the basis for developing the collaboration with one of the St Petersburg youth clubs as a part of the fourth season of The Critical Mass. Avenir Institute was invited by TOK curatorial collective to lead the art & theory laboratory as collaborative working process with local St. Petersburg youth club. The process will result in presentation of subjective future scenario(s), developed from the application of avenirology as methodological approach, in a form of performance, lecture or exhibition. The process will be based on critical reflection within the socio-political and cultural context. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55e2e62ee4b01c33a57a0145/1476085952060-OS00PX6S4KFJ5ZMA104W/160907_Secretaria+de+Inseguranc%CC%A7a+Pu%CC%81blica_3940.jpg Works - "DNV [dan'etvɐzmoʐnə]" (with Caroline Carrion), vinyl print, 2016 The work was produced in Sao Paulo (BR) for the exhibition "Bureau for Public Insecurities" (September 4-17, 2016) at SAO Art Space. The exhibition was organised in the context of 32nd Bienal de Sao Paulo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55e2e62ee4b01c33a57a0145/1476086091912-8PKZZCN1GK46YUNAGCGO/160907_Secretaria+de+Inseguranc%CC%A7a+Pu%CC%81blica_3941.jpg Works - "Game of Futures #1", installation: laser engraved acrylic plastic, playing dice, plinth, paper. 2016 The work was produced in Sao Paulo (BR) for the exhibition "Bureau for Public Insecurities" (September 4-17, 2016) at SAO Art Space. The exhibition was organised in the context of 32nd Bienal de Sao Paulo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55e2e62ee4b01c33a57a0145/1488218244293-TLI770Y1ISPH903EP7M3/Epistemology+of+Border+10.JPG Works - "The Epistemology of Border: Futures of bio-geo-techno-Politics", lecture-performance. 2016 The border is an invisible, imaginary, fictional line which essential to the process of self-identification, the basis of socio-political hierarchy. What does 'border' mean in complex societal context now and how it can diverge in possible futures? The lecture-performance was a part of the programme of The Nationless Pavilion in the programme of Biennale Urbana. It was staged in Teatro Marinoni on Lido in Venice during the 15th Venice Architecture Biennale 'Reporting from the Front'. More information https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55e2e62ee4b01c33a57a0145/1491128707008-PFR12M492X6JL2SPHEY2/FullSizeRender+16.jpg Works - "Fermeture exceptionnelle", photo book, Paris (FR), 2016 The book is the result of spontaneous photo project that was produced on the morning of November 14, 2015, following the night of so-called 'Paris attacks' that claimed lives of 137 people. It documents the life in the city several hours after the attacks. Traces of the media hype and official emergency safety measures (including closure of all public institutions) enter in dialogue with "business as usual" scenes of Parisian morning. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55e2e62ee4b01c33a57a0145/1486755925308-LCAM5LML187J5ZL0W65T/IMG_0320.jpeg Works - 'State(?)-after-State: Future Potentiality of Post-Nation. New Social Systems', mixed media installation, Cairo (EG), 2015 Exhibited as a part of the project 'A New Social Contract', curated by Elena Giulia Abbiatici in the programme of the Something Else / Cairo Off Biennale, that took place in November 28th, 2015 –December 30th, 2015 in Cairo. Something Else / Cairo Off Biennale was organised by Darb 1718 and curated by Simon Njami.       https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55e2e62ee4b01c33a57a0145/1462291314582-03YWPY0393GU0Z2GTPWM/Denis+art+%26+theory+laboratory+at+the+Nationaless+Pavilion%2C+Venice+Biennale+2015%2C+October+2015+-+2.jpg Works - 'State(?)-after-State: Future Potentiality of Post-Nation', art & theory laboratory, The Nationless Pavilion, Venice (IT), 2015 The group work during 3 days mediated by Denis Maksimov led to conceptual and artistic outcomes in the form of texts and installations, that formed exhibition of the Nationless Pavilion in the context of the 56th Biennale Arte 'All the World's Futures'. More information https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55e2e62ee4b01c33a57a0145/1461397391525-RU55F6A56TX3XYTQBXXT/Denis+presentation+at+the+Venice+Biennale+2015+-+1.jpg Works - "Avenir Manifesto", 56th Venice Biennale "All the World's Futures', lecture-performance, Venice (IT), 2015 Presentation of Avenir Institute Manifesto during The Creative Time Summit at the 56th Venice Biennale played the role of official launch of institution. Text of Avenir Manifesto https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55e2e62ee4b01c33a57a0145/1491386953872-2H6F1SDQZMMTFHDV4STX/Avenirology.jpeg Works - "Introduction of Avenirology: [blueprint] into metamodern futures", publication (limited edition, signed), Brussels (BE), 2015 This publication is a blueprint - figuratively, literally, aesthetically, conceptually. It is a preliminary speculations in investigation of notions of ‘risks’, ‘avenirs’ and ‘futures’, that I have been working on in the framework of the doctoral research in Political Science in Moscow and artistic research in Antwerp. This blueprint is a roadmap (what ‘blueprint’ literally means in the world of political expertise) - to futures in the alternative context of approaching them. It is ever-developing ‘draft’, an immanent ‘blueprint’. The tension between futures as composition of ‘risks’ and ‘avenirs’ is the centerpiece of this publication. Derrida’s definition of ‘the Future’ as a set of planned events is a contemporary narrative of approaching the analysis of events to come. The aim of this publication is to refocus the conversation towards ‘futures’ as something more than terrifying, dystopian picture of horrific risks which eventual realization will be the reason of every- one’s doom. It is about rediscovery of futures as the matter of potentialities beyond space and time. This analysis doesn’t include only theoretical and philosophical investigation. The dichotomy between ‘risk’ and ‘avenir’ is explored via blend of the strategies of transdisciplinary background - the book features artistic writings by invited contributors. The scope of it is quite larger than the offered theoretical frame. The blueprint is meant to act as rough introduction into more comprehensive and focused investigation of ‘avenirology’ as methodology of deconstruction of futures. Chapters ‘Focus’ and ‘Untitled’, as well are introductions to other Chapters, are written by me. Chapter ‘Context’ consists of the curated by the editor texts on the topic of ‘futures’ as it is approached by the opinion leaders of the contemporary cultural discourse. Chapter ‘Avenirs’ consists of original contributions. There are contributions by the contemporary art curator and critic Caroline Carrion, polymathic engineer and co-founder of Av- enir Institute Timo Tuominen and conceptual artist Bruno Moreschi. Their speculations about ‘futures’ open multidimensional view on the subject from the perspectives of con- text, object and medium of the address. Seemingly absent connection between the text loosely reflects immense richness of the ‘matter’ of the topic when it’s approached from different discourses of reflection and analysis. Analytical speculations and artistic writings are part of the unified flow of narration. All copies are numbered and signed. You can also download the .pdf of the book https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55e2e62ee4b01c33a57a0145/1545680063529-ZVHJEHQJF35BWEW0H3QQ/44750563_1935199863232028_508808944307666944_o.jpg Works - "Dante’s journey: purgatory", photo project, 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55e2e62ee4b01c33a57a0145/1545678715230-ZR1ME599ILRWOS3UN1C3/FullSizeRender%2B10.jpg Works - "Coexistentia II", .925 sterling silver, 2015 Coexistence II is the result of rendering and fusing symbolic representations of 6 religious, philosophical and mystical teachings: Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Confucianism, Atheism and Buddhism. The resulting pattern is aesthetically abstract, as our socio-political seemingly over-populated reality. This object is a part of Horsemen of Apocalypse project series. It is cast using 3D-printing in .925 sterling silver in Belgium and finished in the UK. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55e2e62ee4b01c33a57a0145/1545678981121-L3RMV5062C8Z4OD6C5QC/19238230_1646694695415881_1129549815037559047_o.jpg Works - "Contemporary Muses I", photo project, 2013 model - Iskandar Widjaja concept & art direction, styling - Denis Maksimov photography - Alina Rudya design direction - Timo Tuominen jewelry - Horsemen of Apocalypse clothing - Dandy of the Grotesque March 2013, Pergamon Museum, Berlin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55e2e62ee4b01c33a57a0145/1545679123980-WR0YEJLRI7CTGDN6MF4S/semper+%281%29.png Works - "semper eadem, semper in motu", .925 sterling silver, 2013 'Semper eadem' (always the same, lat.) was a personal motto of Elizabeth Tudor, the true queen of political symbolism. Her personal image and style significantly defined the epoch not only in England but in the whole Europe. 'Semper in motu' (always in motion, lat.) is a timeless Ancient Rome catch phrase, which tells about necessity of adaptation as means of staying competitive in the changing environment. The unison of these seemingly contradicting wisdoms represents a bold, very human paradox. This object is a part of Horsemen of Apocalypse project series. It is cast using 3D-printing in .925 sterling silver in Belgium and finished in the UK. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55e2e62ee4b01c33a57a0145/1545679230519-RPJWOP6FG6C48EO822RW/cave+%281%29.png Works - "Cave ab homine unius libri", .925 sterling silver, 2013 'Fear the man of one book' (lat.) warns us about those who blindly see only one 'truth', just one possible interpretation of an event. The ring consists of 7 mirror polished empty squares. Like a blank notebook, it represents bearer's openness to reflection. 7 is A symbolic number. In christianity, creation lasted 7 days. In hinduism, there are 7 worlds in the universe, 7 seas in the world and 7 rishies (gurus). The number of layers of the earth in islamic religion is 7, the number of hells is also 7. Buddha walked 7 steps at his birth. There are 7 main islands of mythological Atlantis. 7 is a lucky number in Chinese culture. This object is a part of Horsemen of Apocalypse project series. It is cast using 3D-printing in .925 sterling silver in Belgium and finished in the UK. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55e2e62ee4b01c33a57a0145/1545679291380-KNP3PFGMWQ0OU748D0XI/coexistentia_3.png Works - "Coexistentia I", .925 sterling silver, 2013 Religions and competing world views have been splitting humanity for thousands years. It is futility to even attempt counting how many have perished in a clash of opinions about who is the highest of the deities. The Coexistentia ring is a representation of critical tolerance and respect. This ring encompasses seven sides with engraved symbols of Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Atheism and Confucianism. One side is left blank, for the history of the world is not yet at an end and one should be open to the possibility of witnessing the rise of another revelation. This object is a part of Horsemen of Apocalypse project series. It is cast using 3D-printing in .925 sterling silver in Belgium and finished in the UK. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55e2e62ee4b01c33a57a0145/1545679366186-SKLQB03Y6855WWI0IHHU/autcaesar.png Works - "Aut Caesar, aut nihil", .925 sterling silver, 2013 "Either Caesar, or Nothing" is the personal motto of Cesare Borgia, one of the prominent members of the influential family of the Renaissance period. He devoted himself to an uncompromising approach in his political career, inspired by the credos of Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar. The history of his political and military endeavours still provides important lessons of political management had been methodologised by Niccolo Machiavelli in the widely spread classic of contemporary political science nowadays - "Il Principe". The ring features the signature "OF" symbol: the sword in front of the shield. It is, however, safe to take onto an airplane. This object is a part of Horsemen of Apocalypse project series. It is cast using 3D-printing in .925 sterling silver in Belgium and finished in the UK. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55e2e62ee4b01c33a57a0145/1545679729189-X1FUZ5G17EN8WZBJYPYU/audentes.png Works - "Audentes fortuna iuvat", .925 sterling silver, 2013 “Fortune favours the bold” – was coined by Virgil in Aeneid X, 284. A motto for self-determined, self-assured individuals ready for challenges ahead and having no fear of taking risks when the circumstances call for it. Allegedly, it was final words of Pliny the Elder before he left the docks at Pompeii to rescue people from the eruption of Vesuvius in 79. The ring is representing the signature OF symbol, curved around the finger in the elegant way. The versatility of the design and the shape of the ring gives you opportunity to choose the way it appears in front of yours and viewers sight. This object is a part of Horsemen of Apocalypse project series. It is cast using 3D-printing in .925 sterling silver in Belgium and finished in the UK. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55e2e62ee4b01c33a57a0145/1545679900183-89AEUI8QH6KG62NI5EA8/dual_ring+%281%29.png Works - "Nemera & Nyx", .925 sterling silver, 2013 In Greek mythology Hemera and Nyx, the Goddesses of day and night, are the primordial deities - the first beings that came into existence. They preceded the Titans and the Olympians, and together they embody the world. Hemera bathes the Earth in the shining light of heaven while Nyx lets the world rest and can be found in the shadows and only ever be seen in glimpses. The dynamic beauty of changing states, sunrise and sunset, signify the richness of their harmony. Hesiod wrote: "Nyx and Hemera draw near and greet one another as they pass the great threshold of bronze: and while one is about to go down into the house, the other comes out at the door." The rings depict balance and the creative power of the unification of opposites. The design of the rings is in reference to Doric Ancient Greece style, in the prime of its simplicity and strength. The piece can be worn either by one person as complementing rings or can be shared with someone special. This object is a part of Horsemen of Apocalypse project series. It is cast using 3D-printing in .925 sterling silver in Belgium and finished in the UK. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55e2e62ee4b01c33a57a0145/1545680540492-W9PRJLH6HJIZSWWQIOO7/5_momentary.JPG Works - "Surfaces: Momentary", photo project, 2013 Plato taught in Academia that objects as we see them are the mere reflection of their ideal forms, eidoses. these shadows of perfections are falling onto wall of platonic experimental cave, which he used to describe metaphorically an experience of the world of those reflections, that we see in the world we call “real”. Immortal, perfect soul of an object is perceived “real” through a contact with surrounding environment, a surface. As in Einstein’s relativism in physics, our aesthetic perception of objects is greatly influenced by a surface which plays the role of background for it. A Surface, unlike an object, hardly speaks for itself in a bold way. It can be strong, but will remain abstract. surface creates an aura around objects, playing vital role in defining particular character. Character of surfaces, presented in this exhibition, is in focus. you are invited to meditate on them, place your own imaginary objects onto them, play with your emotions and fantasies. Present is so short, so it’s almost inexistent. we exist on a razor line between always misunderstood Scilla of the past and immanently random Charybdis of a future. Capturing an immediate uniqueness of the moment is why photography became so influential and revolutionized visual arts, opening channels for liberalization of aesthetical expression. Here, birth, existence and death are meeting face to face - like Three Fates, Moirai, of Greek mythology, their metaphorical thread is a captured shadow of an eidos. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55e2e62ee4b01c33a57a0145/1545680647425-X0372QDYDJ4FB37UYUDP/14_fading.jpeg Works - "Surfaces: Fading", photo project, 2013 Plato taught in Academia that objects as we see them are the mere reflection of their ideal forms, eidoses. these shadows of perfections are falling onto wall of platonic experimental cave, which he used to describe metaphorically an experience of the world of those reflections, that we see in the world we call “real”. Immortal, perfect soul of an object is perceived “real” through a contact with surrounding environment, a surface. As in Einstein’s relativism in physics, our aesthetic perception of objects is greatly influenced by a surface which plays the role of background for it. A Surface, unlike an object, hardly speaks for itself in a bold way. It can be strong, but will remain abstract. surface creates an aura around objects, playing vital role in defining particular character. Character of surfaces, presented in this exhibition, is in focus. you are invited to meditate on them, place your own imaginary objects onto them, play with your emotions and fantasies. Changing state is a source of melancholy and philosophic reflection. Carpe diem importance is especially evident through observation of the fading surface. Emotional art movements, such as romanticism and impressionism, are conceptually bearing state of transformation in their core. They mean to inspire in us superiority of “intuit” above “rationalize”. “this too shall pass” was engraved on the ring of wise Solomon. In the end, the only constant is a change. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55e2e62ee4b01c33a57a0145/1465383804586-KUSK5BRUX1QRLX0Y6N0V/IMG_9308.JPG Works - Denis Maksimov. Curatorial parcours through 'Imprints' at Harlan Levey Projects, Brussels (BE), 2016 "In “The Human Condition,” political theorist Hanna Arendt speaks about “vita contemplativa” (contemplative, passive life) as the condition of Western society. It is a condition that opposes “vita active,”or dynamic living, where the subject produces reality, instead of passively consuming its established narratives. This dynamism can be seen as one of the grey lines connecting works in this exhibition. One recent video and an object or drawing was selected from 5 of our represented artists to shape an accidental exhibition built on a series of coincidences and the bonds that grew out of them. Other lines appear in what can be seen and what cannot. Presence is given to the invisible ashes, traumas and concerns that shape each piece in the show." - text by Harlan Levey and Denis Maksimov. The exhibition features works of Marcin Dudek, Amelie Bouvier, Petr Davydtchenko, TR Ericsson and Emmanuel Van der Auwera. More information.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55e2e62ee4b01c33a57a0145/1545681042994-C9GCK76FFAFNJB20PZG0/18_immanent.JPG Works - "Surfaces: Immanent", photo project, 2013 Plato taught in Academia that objects as we see them are the mere reflection of their ideal forms, eidoses. these shadows of perfections are falling onto wall of platonic experimental cave, which he used to describe metaphorically an experience of the world of those reflections, that we see in the world we call “real”. Immortal, perfect soul of an object is perceived “real” through a contact with surrounding environment, a surface. As in Einstein’s relativism in physics, our aesthetic perception of objects is greatly influenced by a surface which plays the role of background for it. A Surface, unlike an object, hardly speaks for itself in a bold way. It can be strong, but will remain abstract. surface creates an aura around objects, playing vital role in defining particular character. Character of surfaces, presented in this exhibition, is in focus. you are invited to meditate on them, place your own imaginary objects onto them, play with your emotions and fantasies. It is a harsh frivolity to name anything immanent. However, some changing states might go on for centuries, thousands, millions of years and thanks to this humanity is able to develop, building on the basis of experienced. We are empirical species and perhaps therefore human brain proves to be unable so far to imagine the concept of eternity. Surfaces of this kind are like ancient books, awaiting to be read and learnt from. 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[Sao Paulo] Bureau for Public Insecurities logo design by Luiz Guilherme https://avenirinstitute.info/events/2016/11/10/moiras-realitt monthly 0.5 2017-09-19 https://avenirinstitute.info/about daily 1.0 2023-11-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55e2e62ee4b01c33a57a0145/1476005264578-87QVE8HX7YBMJLOYREOJ/10534709_441642856009844_981840024496614876_n.png About https://avenirinstitute.info/contact daily 0.75 2023-09-07 https://avenirinstitute.info/people daily 0.75 2023-08-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55e2e62ee4b01c33a57a0145/1567412180189-4ERK9P0ZB2R6DV8NBD0V/IMG_7141g.jpg People Denis Maksimov works with the notion of aesthetico-political (encompassing ideography, rhetoric, and style) in cultural heritage. He develops future-oriented queer readings of ancient Greek mythology, epics, and tragedy. He has curated independent projects at art biennales, galleries and festivals. As a political consultant, he worked for various think tanks in Brussels and elsewhere. He teaches internationally, and his critical writing has been widely published in print and online. More about Denis - www.denismaksimov.com. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55e2e62ee4b01c33a57a0145/1567412282076-E9KN4T6KP85P4ZY458KO/IMG_7731+copy+copy.jpg People Timo Tuominen is interested in the potential of contemporary art as a space of experimentation with technology and imagining the future socio-economic and political infrastructures. Timo consults on and develops for large scale projects from conception to completion for clients. He implements complex and business-critical solutions, leads technical innovation projects and conducts feasibility studies beforehand. He published a book about functional reactive programming with Manning Publications in 2018. https://avenirinstitute.info/avenirology daily 0.75 2020-01-27 https://avenirinstitute.info/desirablefutures daily 0.75 2018-10-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55e2e62ee4b01c33a57a0145/1491728630853-LGCIUTDM1PCVKZYSEY8B/image-asset.jpeg Imaginary Design Avenir Institute. “The Temple of Futures Thinking” (detail), 2016 https://avenirinstitute.info/frictions daily 0.75 2019-12-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55e2e62ee4b01c33a57a0145/1545972367391-30KX35WRVJ1U8V6IEZSG/Screenshot+2018-12-27+at+20.44.53.png F(r)ictions Denis Maksimov/AVENIR INSTITUTE, Liva Dudareva/METASITU, Rana Ozturk. “Present Visuality and Thingness of Trans-ethnography in the Context of Unrealised Future in the Past”, 2016 https://avenirinstitute.info/critical-ideography daily 0.75 2020-01-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55e2e62ee4b01c33a57a0145/1534269362410-0F3THR5ZZGRN7SMUI68C/everlasting_present_square-03.png Critical Ideography "Freaktion", 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55e2e62ee4b01c33a57a0145/1534269480100-POBU9EOVK6AW7OCB7X52/everlasting_present_square-01.png Critical Ideography "Everlasting Present", 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55e2e62ee4b01c33a57a0145/1534269432338-PNY9XT0KUQD2S54KZ0D1/sentient+company.png Critical Ideography "Sentient Company", 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55e2e62ee4b01c33a57a0145/1534269473951-3BVFOG7T6DKYOKUL6YSE/everlasting_present_square-08.png Critical Ideography "Institutional Twilight", 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55e2e62ee4b01c33a57a0145/1534269534729-1SXQVQYP1MCFWQRBUR31/avenir.png Critical Ideography "Avenir", 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55e2e62ee4b01c33a57a0145/1571901365568-V6UCMCNDNAS0MG78GVT3/oecumene.png Critical Ideography “(Beyond the Metaphysics of) the West: Oecumene”, 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55e2e62ee4b01c33a57a0145/1571901569990-N6QJG276NJR4Z4NE466P/anti-cavial.png Critical Ideography “(Beyond) the Metaphysics (of the West): Anti-Cavial”, 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55e2e62ee4b01c33a57a0145/1534269552635-JHF7POUF9RNT4AOJ1KEA/everlasting_present_square-02.png Critical Ideography "Anthropological Gravity", 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55e2e62ee4b01c33a57a0145/1571901461970-4387RNBHYTZBKR1V71ZL/Osmosis.png Critical Ideography “Beyond (the Metaphysics of the West): Transpolitical Osmosis”, 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55e2e62ee4b01c33a57a0145/1571901726249-5M5RSMLCHI3EW2TWYGG0/transcendent+identity.PNG Critical Ideography “Transcendent Identity”, 2017 https://avenirinstitute.info/divination-and-futuring-methods daily 0.75 2018-12-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55e2e62ee4b01c33a57a0145/1545970560182-2ZEWPNOC684EGNYEE5K7/Screenshot+2018-12-27+at+20.14.57.png Divination & Futuring Methods Ruins of the Temple of Apollo, Delphi (GR) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55e2e62ee4b01c33a57a0145/1545970844550-CIEGB9JRLIF11FB6XUKY/Screenshot+2018-12-27+at+20.15.37.png Divination & Futuring Methods Ruins of the Theatre of Dionysus, Delphi (GR) https://avenirinstitute.info/the-political daily 0.75 2020-09-20 https://avenirinstitute.info/suprapolitics-stateafterstate daily 0.75 2018-12-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55e2e62ee4b01c33a57a0145/1545861951864-KMAAV8Q5APV82YNAZP49/stateafterstate.JPG Suprapolitics & State(?)-after-State AVENIR INSTITUTE. “State(?)-after-State”, seminar, The Nationless Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale Art “All the World’s Futures”, Venice (IT), 2015