Julia Petrovna Lezhnina

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Academic biography

Education:

  • Bachelor's degree (2012–2017). Pedagogical Education (Two Majors). Faculty of History, Management and Law, Chuvash State Pedagogical University named after I.Y. Yakovlev.
  • Professional retraining (2013–2016). Qualification: Teacher of English. Faculty of Foreign Languages, Chuvash State Pedagogical University named after I.Y. Yakovlev.
  • Master's degree (2018–2020). Master of Arts. Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences, St. Petersburg State University (Master's program «Curatorial Studies»).

Trained at the Russian Art Archive Network (2019). Participated in conferences with the following reports: «Curatorial Ethics in the Context of the Evolution of Social Practices in Contemporary Art: from the Society of the Spectacle to Participation Society» (2021), «Price and Value of the Art Work: the Main Philosophical Question of the Political Economy of Creativity» (2022).

Took part in the development of a number of courses: «Curating: from Professional Practice to Cultural Policy» (2020-21) — personally, «Art & Neoliberalism» (2022) and «How to Measure the Changes: the Philosophical and Sociological Dimension of Social and Artistic Projects» (2023) — in co-authorship.

Selected texts and translations:

The Jargon of Authenticity, or the Reproach of Art for Everything Good and Against Everything Bad

Jesko Fezer. (Un)social Community

Mieke Gerritzen, Geert Lovink. The Amsterdam Design Manifesto

Interests: social practices in contemporary art, curatorial ethics, critique of participation and participation society, neoliberal subjectivity and the practices of the self, dematerialization of labour.