PARAINSTITUTIONS AS A LATENT STRATEGY OF INSTITUTIONAL CRITIQUE IN CONTEMPORARY RUSSIAN ART

The article is devoted to the Russian realization of a conceptual art movement known as institutional critique. In many countries of the Western world and in some others the tradition of institutional critique is an important component of the local context. At the same time, institutional critique as a global phenomenon had a decisive influence on art in the last quarter of the 20th century, but it has never been systematically studied in Russia. Two strategies of Russian institutional critique – manifest and latent – are distinguished by the author. The latent strategy is implemented through the creation of parainstitutions – speculative organizations. Based on the results of analyzing the principles of work of the selected parainstitutions, it was assumed that artists began to use the institution as a medium. This trend can be characterized as one of the main vectors of institutional critique in the conditions of the so-called “postcritical turn”.