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Gagarin´s Tree

Gagarin´s Tree
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    • Gagarin´s Tree
    • Copacul lui Gagarin
  • 2016
  • video, color, sound
  • 22min, 58sec
“Gagarin’s Tree. An Interview with Ovidiu Tichindeleanu” tackles issues of space exploration, imagination and propaganda in the socialist utopia, regarding the post-communist condition as liberal colonization. In the interview, philosopher Tichindeleanu departs from the unstable nature of today’s ruins. He addresses the mechanisms of how socialism attempted to write a history divergent from that of Western modernity with the belief in a transformative potential, and the dream to bring people together and to create another history in the future. K.R.