Authors

Katerina Pavlidi¹;  ¹ University College Dublin, Ireland

Discussion

This paper investigates how Conceptualist artists employ calendars as material mediators of time, exploring their capacity to challenge conventional temporal frameworks. Focusing on Dmitrii Prigov's late-Soviet calendar poetry and Lev Rubinshtein's An Entire Year. My Calendar (2018), the study highlights how these works reimagine time as deep, multilayered, and cyclical rather than linear and progressive. Through a comparative analysis, the paper examines the interplay between text, form, and historical context, revealing how calendars become tools for questioning dominant narratives of temporal progression. The late-Soviet milieu of Prigov's work and the post-Soviet cultural landscape of Rubinshtein's piece frame distinct yet interconnected temporal imaginaries. Ultimately, this paper argues that such Conceptualist representations of time offer a critique of their respective historical and cultural moments, suggesting an alternative way of understanding temporality that transcends traditional linear models.