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Inspection Medical Hermeneutics (Инспекция Медицинская Герменевтика) was a pioneering artists’ collective formed in December 1987 in a squat in Furman Lane in Moscow. == History == The founding members of the group were Pavel Pepperstein, Sergei Anufriev, and Yuri Leiderman. An associate of the group, the journalist Anton Nosik, originally coined the phrase 'Medical Hermeneutics'. According to the OED, hermeneutics is the branch of knowledge that deals with interpretation, especially of the bible or literary texts. The group created installations and performances which experimented with language and meaning, imagining their work as an investigation of their culture at a time when Glasnost was opening it up to the West. They described Glasnost as a moment when ‘the sky opened up’, akin to psychedelic experience, when a rupture between systems brings anxiety as well as the promise of renewal. Their work drew from Russian traditions and fairy tales – often relating these to objects from Western visual culture – as well as psychedelia and pseudo-scientific methodology. Asked to explain the term Medical Hermeneutics, Sergei Anufriev answered: “The essence of it is the following: a collective mindset constantly directs consciousness into the outer regions - ideology, criticism, back to ideology. This creeping development is not an evolution but rather a kind of disease, that is, something that should be treated. The therapy may reveal things not related to the stated issues, a bit like a spill-over”.〔V.Tupitsyn, Inspecting the Inspectors, Flash Art, Issue No1, Moscow, 1989〕 In Pepperstein’s words, Inspection Medical Hermeneutics produced ‘a thick mumble, white noise and other incomprehensible, unclear things’.〔Pavel Pepperstein cited in Ulli Moser, 'Inspection Medical Hermeneutics' (trans. Patrick Kremer), Kunstforum, no. 118, 1992, p.372.〕 In his book on Moscow Conceptualism, (Professor Matthew Jesse Jackson ) writes, “Uniting, according to Pepperstein, the camaraderie of John Landis’s ''Blues Brothers'' and the method of Deleuze and Guattari’s Anti-Oedipus, the inspection combined western mass culture with the rigorous analysis of collective actions, styling itself as an alternative monitoring agency, a quasi-institutional entity designed to resist the recent invasion of foreign “experts”. Soon the group set up its own inspection team to visit artists' studios and other locales around Moscow (and the Soviet Union). Employing a variation on the five-point grading mechanism of the Soviet educational system (dubbed the Higher Evaluative Category), the Med-Hermeneuts juxtaposed their childish grading to the supposedly learned opinions of Western ‘specialists’ “. He continues: “A typical undertaking occurred in May 1988 at a presentation in which Pepperstein encouraged members of a Moscow audience to don a stethoscope to listen to the beating heart of an infant depicted on an empty box of Soviet baby-food. Such actions synthesised the absurd, therapeutic and analytical motivations of the inspection”.〔M. Jesse Jackson, The Experimental Group: Ilya Kabakov, Moscow Conceptualism, Soviet Avant-Gardes, University Of Chicago Press, 2010, p 230.〕 In 1991 Yuri Leiderman left the group, and Vladimir Fedorov joined. In 1998 the XI issue of the influential Russian art journal ''Mesto Pechati'' was dedicated to the tenth anniversary of Inspection Medical Hermeneutics.〔Mecto Pechati, No 11, Obscuri Viri, Moscow 1998〕 The group officially ceased to exist on September 11, 2001, the day of the terrorist atrocity in New York. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Inspection Medical Hermeneutics」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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