TV GALLERY: AN OFFICIAL STATEMENT
april 1993

Rigvava Gia, author and performer

From Press Release

Identity: Post-Soviet.

The term "Post-Soviet" – formerly used in political mass-media for setting up only temporal limits, now has gained some definite contest.

One can hardly doubt the fact that structural spheres of now non-existing state – the USSR, are still the leading ones, e.g. science and education, armed forces and nuclear potential, and, of course, culture.

The indivisibility of these spheres and the absence of any serious competition on the part of similar new-born formations are the reason of long and almost untroubled living of the mentioned structures, hence there appeared quite a new situation, due to lack of state limitation policy.

Previously, in the USSR, art machinery was replalced by political one: just because of the fact of being opposite to the official sphere one could qualify some work as a work of art, and today it is absolutely groundless, because it has nothing to do with cultural identification.

Nowadays, when the process of integrating into world culture and of using common values as a criterion, has been increasing, more and more artists and cultural workers accepting new conditions of openness and thus creating a new post-Soviet identity, have been showing theirselves.

Gia Rigvava

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