The Red House Centre for Culture and Debate and Goethe- Institute Bulgaria present:

Enlightenment vs. Fundamentalism. Whom Belongs the Language of Art?

public lecture by Mikhail Ryklin, with screening of the film “Responsible for everything!” (Anna Alchuck, documentary, Russia, 11 min.), followed by a discussion

In his talk Mikhail Ryklin will describe and analyse the events around the destroyed exhibition “Beware, Religion!” (Moscow, January 2003) in an
attempt to foresee what consequences it will have for the future of contemporary culture. Who has the right to interpret artworks? Is one (i.e. the artist) entitled to use the religious (Christian) symbols in his work without paying regard to their ritual role in the church? Should artist take risks defending his language or should he just obey to the law of the strongest (in the most cases the strongest is one, who gets the support of the State, the market etc.)?

Mikhail Ryklin is a philosopher, Honorary member of the Zenrtum fuer Literaturforschung, Berlin; Leading Researcher at the Department of Philosophical Anthropology, Insitute of Philosophy, Moscow; former Fellow of the Baltic Center of Writers and Translators, Gothland, Sweden; Contributor :Postcommunist Condition, Karlsruhe, ZKM, Kulturstiftung des Bundes; Senior fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Bristol. Author of many books, amongst which are “The Eternal Russia. Cuistine and Dostoevski”, Logos Publishers, Moscow, forthcoming 2008; “Uneinnehmbare Festung” Walter Benjamin in Moskau. Suhrkamp, Fr.-a-M., forthcoming 2007-2008; Svastika, krest, zvezda, Logos Publishers, Moscow, 2006, Mit dem Recht des Staerkeren, Suhrkamp, Fr.-a.-M, forthcoming 2006; Svoboda i zapret. The Soviet intellectual Experience in the Western Context, Logos Publishers, Moscow, forthcoming 2006.-2007; Pisma iz Moskve, Beograd, Biblioteka XX vek, 2006; The Time of Diagnosis, Logos Publishers, Moscow, 2003; Die verschwiegene Grenze, Diaphanes, Berlin, 2003; The Spacies of Jubilation. Totalitarianism and the Difference. Moscow, Logos Publishers, 2002 (tranlated into German, Suhrkamt, 2003, forthcoming in Itatian, Bollati Boringheri, 2006); Deconstruction and Desrtuction. Conversations with Philosophers (Derrida, Quattari, Baudrillard, Nancy, Lacoue-Labarthe, Rorty, Zizek, Groys etc.), Moscow, Logos Publishers, 2002 (translated into German, Diaphanes, Zuerich, 2006, forthcoming in Corean, 2007); Art as Obstacle, Moscow, Ad Marginem, 1997; The Frame Group Performances, Moscow, Obscuri Viri, 1995; Jacques Derrida in Moscow. The Deconstruction of a Voyage, Moscow, Kultura Publishers, 1993 (abridged French Translation by Editions de l’Aube, 1995); The Logics of Terror, Tartu, Eidos Publishers, 1992

The photographs are part of the official web site of the Andrey Saharov Museum and Public Centre. For more information: http://www.sakharovcenter.ru/museum/exhibitionhall/religion_notabene/

September 24 (Monday), 6.30 p.m.
In Russian with translation into Bulgarian.
Tickets: 3/2 BGN

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