A Node Is Placed at a Site of State Power

The KARAGODIN® Investigation establishes a mesh node in Tomsk — giving form to presence — KARAGODIN.ORG (KGNg)

A Position Is Established
Node Above the Archive (Project Statement)

KARAGODIN® Investigation
There are places designed to remain closed — structures that do not refuse access outright, but absorb it, delay it, return it unchanged.  

In Tomsk, in the interior of Siberia, such a place holds the records of executions, preserved and withheld at once — long enough to appear settled, beyond disturbance. It is meant to remain that way.

And yet, something shifts — not inside the archive, but in how it can be approached. The attempt to gain access takes another form, and in doing so, alters the conditions that were meant to contain it. What follows begins where entry ceases to be possible.
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The KARAGODIN Investigation (KARAGODIN.ORG) as ‘The Past as Action’

Karagodin Investigation (KARAGODOIN.ORG)

The KARAGODIN Investigation (KARAGODIN.ORG) is examined by historian Ivan Kurilla* as an example of ‘the past as action’ in his book The Battle for the Past: How Politics Rewrites History.

This text is a chapter from Ivan Kurilla’s book in which he discusses the Karagodin Investigation project. In the book, the project and its author, Denis Karagodin, are placed in the section ‘The Past as Action’. Kurilla shows that Denis Karagodin’s project has a deep system-forming, institutional character, with far-reaching institutional implications for Russian society.

The full text is published with the author’s permission.

The Battle for the PastHow Politics Rewrites History

The Battle for the Past
How Politics Rewrites History by Ivan Kurilla

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