Unoccupied Centers in Moscow Conceptualism

Collective Actions’ Journeys into Nothingness

Abstract

In the following I am interested in looking at KD as embodied thinking, as a “philosophical practice”. I borrow this term (filosofskaya praktika) from the Dictionary of Moscow Conceptualism, which defines it as a “ritualized part of philosophy”, as a “type of activity or a quasi-ritual addition of a practical component to philosophy”. KD’s activities can be seen as concrete philosophy, which is expressed not in concepts but in concrete objects, sounds, performative actions etc. In the sixth volume of the Journeys, Monastyrsky writes that actions are “sort of self-sufficient philosophizings with legs, body, sounds".