VLADIVOSTOK SCHOOL OF CONTEMPORARY ART: LOCAL ARTISTS CALL FOR SELF-ORGANIZATION
The article analyzes the characteristics and leading motivations of selforganized art communities with Vladivostok School of Contemporary Art (VSCA) appeared in 2015 as an example. A lack of a regulation of relations within collective of artists, avoidance of a bureaucracy and the right (even an encouragement) to make a mistake are being investigated from the standpoint of possible consequences for such a closed community and its members. The article reflects on the boundaries which maintain the autonomy of self-organized communities and considers Vladivostok School of Contemporary Art to be an example of an experimental artistic organization, rhizomatic in its structure, created thanks to grass-roots initiative and characterized by horizontal, non-hierarchical way of its members’ contribution and interaction - of young artists, curators at the beginning of their career and future art critics of Vladivostok. Participants of this educational unity interact with each other according to the principles of equality, accountability and open participation as an alternative to the stable institutional system of education and art. The article tries to analyze how emerging artists manifest themselves as the collective body and aim to unite.