by Hannelore Fobo, 2017 / 2018
Part One
Sergey Kuryokhin and Friends: Leningrad Collective Improvisations 1983
Vladimir Boluchevsky (Владимир Болучевский), Igor Butman (Игорь Бутман), Arkady Dragomeshenko (Аркадий Драгомощенко), Vyacheslav Gayvoronsky (Вячеслав Гайворонский), Boris Grebenshikov (Борис Гребенщиков), Alexander Kondrashkin (Александр Кондрашкин), Hans Kumpf (Ханс Кумпф), Sergey Kuryokhin (Сергей Курёхин), Sergey Letov (Сергей Летов), Timur Novikov (Тимур Новиков), Ivan Sotnikov (Иван Сотников) and Vladimir Volkov (Владимир Волков).
page 1 • Preliminary Remarks
page 2 • Hans Kumpf and Sergey Kuryokhin
page 3 • 1980-1981: the first meetings
page 4 • Leningrad Collective Improvisations 1983: pictures and text
page 5 • Timur Novikov and Ivan Sotnikov: the Utiugon.
page 6 • Leningrad Collective Improvisations 1983: music and audio recording (4min 12s fragment)
page 7 • Hans Kumpf: description of the first part (German / English)
page 8 • Sergey Kuryokhin: Introduction (4min 37s) to the first part. Voice recording and transcription with English translation.
page 9 • Sergey Kuryokhin: introductions to the second part. Transcription with English translation and audio fragments.
page 10 • Reference list for Part One and Part Two
Part Two
Pop Mekhanika in the West
Table of Contents >>
page 1 • Pop Mekhanika chronology 1984-1995 >>
page 2 • Touring the West. Expectations and legends >>
page 3 • The three principles of Kuryokhin’s “action on a totally global scale” >>
page 4 • The principle of spontaneity >>
page 5 • Geese and goats as antithesis >>
page 6 • Why shouldn’t one play with a funny nose on? The “styob” >>
page 7 • The formal side of anarchy >>
Part Three
Interviews about Sergey Kuryokhin:
Bernhard Druba «Диалоги промежуточного времени» /“Dialogues in an Interim Time”
External link at Colta Specials, 17 January 2019, in Russian: Бернард Друба об учебе в предперестроечном Ленинграде, знакомстве с советским андерграундом и дружбе с Сергеем Курехиним. / Bernhard Druba about studying in pre-perestroika Leningrad, the Soviet underground and his friendship with Sergey Kuryokhin.
(E-E) Evgenij Kozlov: About Leningrad's Art and Music Scene
– Sergey Kuryokhin, the New Composers, and Tanzpol, the first Russian Techno Club (2023)
Sergey Kuryokhin: Articles
Михаил Трофименков 'Красная магия, или Здравствуйте, девочки …' 1995
Mikhail Trofimenkov, Red magic or Hi, girls … 1995 (in Russian)
Сергей Курехин 'С Новым годом Зверя!' 1996
Sergey Kuryokhin 'Happy New Year of the Beast!' 1995 (in Russian)
Александр Полищук 'Поп-механика в ДК Ленсовета' 1995
Aleksandr Polishchuk, 'Pop-Mekahnika at the DK Lensoviet' (PM 418), 1995 (in Russian and English)
Videos
• Sergey Chubraev about Sergey Kuryokhin. A Lecture at the Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz, Poland, 2016 (in Russian)
• Sergey Kuryokhin and Friends – Leningrad Collective Improvisations 1983: Fragment, with “Utiugon"
• Hannelore Fobo: 'Popular Mechanics – Insect Culture' and 'stiob'
A lecture at the Institue of Advanced Studies, UCL, London
Alexander Titov about 'Aquarium' - 'Kino' - 'Pop Mekhanika'.
An interview with Hannelore Fobo, London, 2018
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