Far East Chronicles Archive

The Far East Chronicles archive covers contemporary cultural processes and the activities of artists, curators, and institutions in three cities of the Far East (Vladivostok, Khabarovsk, Nakhodka). Today, the archive focuses on materials related to individuals and organizations who began working in the 2010s and 2020s and on events linked to them.

The archive was founded by Maria Zhuravleva and Rada Smolyanskaya, artists of the Far East Homewreckers (DVR) movement.

The archive is structured like a family photo album, a personal chronicle or a family tree, incorporating a specific group of individuals and initiatives in an attempt to reflect the system of links and mutual influences within a relatively small artistic community. Such a structure enables future archivists and researchers to expand it chronologically and geographically and define the threads that connect the young generation of artists with the history of how artistic processes developed and with older generation cultural figures from the region.

The aim of the archive is to collect and organize information about cultural actors of the younger generation, to initiate the direct transfer of information from individuals, and to set out the history of young art in the Far East as experienced by those involved.