Anastasia Tarasova
Research Fellow
Project Discuss Data
Room 3760
tarasova@uni-bremen.de
Current Projects
Since July 2023 contact person in the project to build a community space ‘Dissent & Samizdat in the Soviet Union’ by Discuss Data:
- Discuss Data II - Community Space for Dissent and Samizdat in the Soviet Union, funded by the DFG
Responsible for the development of the Community Space "Dissent & Samizdat in the Soviet Union", the cooperation with external partners, user support and community involvement
Research interests
- Contemporary art, art activism, unofficial culture of Soviet Russia
- Digital Humanities
- Art Archives, Digital Archives
- Museology, the inclusive museum
- Archaeology of the Ancient Near East and the Northern Black Sea Coastal Regions
Short biography and education
2012 - 2023 Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow - Research Department, Head of Archives, incl.:
Coordination of the Russian Art Archive Net project (incl. the IT + Archivists working group for database software development and design of the online platform);
Membership of the European Art Net (guest since 2013, joined 2018); collaboration with Wikimedia on the development of the Russian-language section of Wikipedia on "Contemporary Art" (GLAM Wiki, 2016-2019);
Carrying out inventory management, conservation work, digitisation, budgeting and storage;
Establishing contacts with archives and museums at home and abroad;
Coordinating and co-initiating events for researchers in the archive, e.g. Archival Summer;
Participation in the production of retrospective exhibitions (Garage archived (co-curation); Reconstruction 1, 2; Russian Performance: Cartography of the History; The Family Tree of Russian Contemporary Art, among others);
Expert advice to domestic and foreign cultural institutions, topics: Organisation of archival work, selection of database software for archival collections;
Author of concept and leader of monthly training course for archivists;
2020 IFA CrossCulture Programme Fellowship / Topic: Digital Civil Society
2020 Product manager qualification (advanced training course), Higher School of Information Systems, HSE Moscow
2019 Culture of Dissidence Summer Course (research approaches in digital humanities); NEP4DISSENT
2018 Malaga / 2nd edition of the Digital Art History Summer School (group of Dr. Prof. Harald Klinke), University of Malaga
2012 1st run of Curatorial School, student, RSHU, Moscow / V-A-C Foundation, Moscow / theme: making exhibitions political, guest lecturer: WHW Collective2014 Designed and coordinated the 1st international workshop for staff of cultural institutions working with visitors with visual impairments (Invisible Experience);
2011 Project coordination and co-edition a creative game for children under 13 about local contemporary art;
2009-2010 Gerda Henkel Research Fellowship / Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle an der Saale (Germany) / Seminar for Oriental Archaeology and Art History of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg;
2007-2008 DAAD Research Fellowship / Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle an der Saale (Germany) / Research Residency / Seminar for Oriental Archaeology and Art History of the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg / Extraordinary Studies of the Institute of Ancient Near Eastern Studies (University of Leipzig);
2001-2005, 2010-2011 Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow; preparation of documentation for temporary exhibitions (domestic and foreign); inventory of collections in the Oriental Department; participation in the production of archaeological exhibitions of the Oriental Department (permanent exhibition, temporary exhibition "Mir v miniature").
2005-2010 Doctoral studies / Lomonosov Moscow University, Moscow, Faculty of History, Department of General Art History (passed qualifying examinations for doctoral status in 2006) / Topic: Stages of development of Near Eastern glyptics in the 3rd to 1st millennium BC on the material of Russian collections / On pause;
Before 2001: librarian at MIPT and MSU; teacher of inclusive art practices at two secondary schools for children with disabilities and orphans (Moscow);
1999-2005 Specialised studies in Art History at the Lomonosov Moscow University, Faculty of History, Department of General Art History + Seminar of Akkadian Language / 2004-2005 Extraordinary studies at the Institute of Oriental and Classical Studies RSUH
Publications
Between Art Practice and Protest: Russian/Soviet Alternative Art in the Prism of archives of the Russian Art Archive Net (RAAN)/Entre practiques artistiques et contestation: l'art alternatif russe et soviétique au prisme du Réseau des archives d'art russe, in: Critique d' art. Actualité internationale de la littérature critique sur l'art contemporain 57 (2021), 2, 188-215 (zusammen mit Anastasia Tarasova).
[russische Fassung: Между художественной практики и протестом: русское/советское альтернативное искусство в зеркале архивов сети RAAN, соaвтор: Анастасия Тарасова];
Why Archive? On the Concept and History of Garage Archive Collection, in: February Journal (2021), 3, 82-117, Russisch;
State of the Art Archives (2017) 317-320, English;
Collection of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow (2022), 20;
Mir v miniature. Exhibition catalogue. The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow (2012), 20-49.