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Jameel Library Readings | Michael Rakowitz on "The Man Who Flew Into Space from His Apartment"

Jameel Library Readings is a series which invites visitors, friends and collaborators of the Jameel Library to read and respond to texts from the collection. In this video, Michael Rackowitz reads an excerpt from Boris Groys text, 'Ilya Kabakov: The Man Who Flew Into Space From his Apartment', published by Afterall books in 2006. 'Ilya Kabakov's 1988 installation The Man Who Flew into Space from His Apartment presents an isolated dreamer who develops an impossible project - to fly alone in outer space. Having built a makeshift slingshot, the hero apparently catapults through the ceiling of his shabby room and vanishes into space. For Boris Groys, The Man Who Flew into Space from his Apartment presents an individual appropriation of a collective Soviet project and the official Soviet propaganda connected to it - where cosmic vision and the political project of the communist revolution are seen as indissoluble.' Visit our online catalog at library.jameelartscentre.org to browse through our collection.