Presentations by Streams

Since the early 2010s a new sensibility has emerged in Russia's cultural mainstream, neither quite modern nor fully postmodern, but rather characterised by a constant oscillation between these two. Some scholars have called this new practice 'metamodern': with, between and beyond the (post)modern. Conscious of the impossibility of grand narratives but striving to create one nonetheless, metamodern art is characterised by ambiguity, affect, recycling of the (Soviet) past, as well as oscillations between irony and seriousness, patriotism and protest, endorsement and criticism of the status quo, political engagement and apoliticism. In this panel, we therefore discuss the main features of this new sensibility, analyse some of its most representative visual and musical artefacts, as well as connecting them to the broader sociopolitical picture.