Description language for "Soviet" in Russian conceptualism: Methodology of ethnographers and archaeologists
The article is dedicated to methodological problems of constructing the Soviet culture, which were represented in Soviet conceptualism. The special attention is paid to technologies, legitimated directly by participants of artistic movement of 1970-1980s: the practices of “ethnographic” and “archaeological” research. As examples of this often competing strategies there were selected installations, actions paintings and sculptures, that make up the world archive of Moscow conceptual art.