video, 27min 04 sec

There was a turning point in 20th-century Russian art history when everything could have turned out differently, until the situational victory of Moscow Conceptualism (the art group Collective Actions and A. Monastyrsky, Yuri Albert, and Nikita Alekseev) over the literary occultism of the Yuzhny Circle and the nonconformists (magical realism, Y. Mamleev, E. Golovin, and G. Dzhemal) in the 1970s.