The Communist Revolution Was Caused By The Sun
Artist
Anton Vidokle
(Russian, born 1965)
Date2015
MediumHD video (colour, sound)
Dimensions34 minutes
Credit LineCollection of Remai Modern. Purchased with the support of the Frank and Ellen Remai Foundation 2017.
Object number2017.1
Classificationsvideo
On View
Not on viewThe Communist Revolution Was Caused by the Sun is the second work in Anton Vidokle’s trilogy about Russian cosmism and the poetic dimension of Soviet biophysicist Alexander Chizhevsky’s (1897–1964) research on the sun. Chizhevsky spent the majority of his career researching the correlation between heightened solar activity and mass social excitability. Shot in Kazakhstan, the work emphasizes that the goal of early Soviet space exploration emerged less from technical acceleration than it did from the struggle against the limitations of life on earth.
