Ilya Kabakov

The Man Who Flew into Space from his Apartment

Boris Groys (Global Distinguished Professor, New York University)

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English

Afterall Publishing
05 May 2006

Installation art; Individual artists, art monographs

Series: Afterall Books / One Work

An illustrated study of one of Ilya Kabakov's most fantastic installations.

The fictitious hero of this 1984 installation is a lonely dreamer who develops an impossible project- to fly alone in cosmic space. But this dream is also an individual appropriation of a collective Soviet project and the official Soviet propaganda connected to it. Having built a makeshift slingshot, the hero apparently flies through the ceiling of his shabby room and vanishes into space. The miserable room and the primitive slingshot suggest the reality behind the Soviet utopia, in which where cosmic vision and the political project of the Communist revolution are seen as indissoluble. The Man who Flew into Space from His Apartment also raises questions of authorship in modernity. All of Kabakov's work is made in the name of other, fictitious artists. This reveals a hidden rule of the modern art system- only an artist who doesn't want to be an artist or who doesn't even know that he is an artist is a real artist-just as only an artwork that does not look like an artwork is a real artwork. The installation is a narrative, the documentation of a fictitious event. Afterall Books are distributed by The MIT Press.

By: Boris Groys (Global Distinguished Professor New York University)
Imprint: Afterall Publishing
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: 1
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 13mm
Weight: 227g
ISBN: 9781846380044
ISBN 10: 1846380049
Series: Afterall Books / One Work
Pages: 56
Publication Date: 05 May 2006
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Boris Groys is an art critic, media theorist, and philosopher. He is Global Distinguished Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies at New York University and Professor of Philosophy at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland. He is the author of Art Power, History Becomes Form- Moscow Conceptualism (both published by the MIT Press), and other books.