"War" is a modern Moscow art group operating in the field of conceptual street art. The group is known for some scandalous performances. It's no less than sixty persons - poets, artists, linguists, journalists, students.They collaborate with a variety of artistic and political structures and they consider that their teachers in modern art are Alexander Brener, Andrey Monastery and Vadim Zakharov. One of the founders of Moscow Conceptualism Dmitry Prigov was close to early composition of the group.
The "War's" performances include provocation, violation of generally accepted standards of morality in public places, public disorderly conduct, obscene language, and sometimes even damage to property. Its first action was held on May 1, 2007. Then the activists threw cats in the McDonalds in Moscow. On March 2008 they carried out an orgy in the Zoological Museum in honor of electing a new president. After that the group hung guest workers and homosexuals in the Auchan in honor of Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov. Also they "captured" Government House and organized a banquet in memory of Dmitri Prigov in a subway car.
I like what makes the group "War". Yes, I agree that they destroy the artistic context, but somehow this context must be torn away from the glamor. Without the destruction does not work. It seems to me, "wounds" inflicted by the war is not deadly. They heal quickly.
Marat Gelman, a gallery owner, 2009
The shares of these urban crazies smell bad.
"Komsomolskaya Pravda" (Russian newspaper), 2008
In the beginning of 2010th an activist of "War" Leonid Nikolayev with a blue bucket on his head climbed on the roof of the car with flashing lights at the walls of the Kremlin. It was a protest against the government signals on the cars, there're much more than normal such cars in Moscow. And a couple of days ago, on the night of June 14, "War's" activists painted a huge dick with white paint on the bridge in St. Petersburg. At night the bridges are raised so this art object was looking directly at the FSB building.
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