the great dead art is not only classical realism. specially for the afterlife biennale, the russian pavilion proudly presents an icon of moscow actionism of the 1990s – oleg sobaka and alexander brener's performance “kulik-man” (also known as “mad kulik” or “cerberus,” 1994). moscow actionism has long since entered the treasury of great russian art, in other words, the arsenal of special cultural operations (the distance from a mad dog to a police dog isn't all that great). as lyudmila bredikhina wrote (“deep into russia,” 1997), “the russian tendency to transcend the human and its problematic proximity to some kind of primordial spirituality found an extravagant continuation in the works of oleg sobaka, who unexpectedly transformed into kulik... the aggressiveness of kulik the dog is nothing more than the desperate moralizing of a man disillusioned with the values of modern [western] culture, its prospects, and linguistic possibilities...” in other words, you cancel us – and we bite you #некробиеннале #necrobiennale