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Kirill Medvedev
Medvedev performing in July 2013
Born(1975-06-19)19 June 1975
Moscow, Soviet Union
Notable workIt's No Good (poetry collection)
Websitehttp://kirillmedvedev.narod.ru/

Kirill Medvedev (Russian: Кирилл Феликсович Медведев; born 19 June 1975) is a Soviet and Russian activist, musician, and author who notably gave up the copyright to all his works in 2004.[1]

Early life and education

Kirill Medvedev in Moscow on June 10, 2018 in a rally "For a free Russia without repression and despotism".

Kirill Medvedev was born in Moscow. His father was a well-known post-Soviet journalist.[2]

Career

Medvedev published two collections of poetry in his midtwenties: Everything is Bad (or It’s No Good) and Incursion; these were dismissed by some critics as not really poetry, because unusual in Russia, they were autobiographical free verse. He translated Charles Bukowksi into Russian.[2]

In 2003, he renounced his copyright in his "Manifesto on Copyright".[3][2] Literary scholar Annette Gilbert has interpreted Medwedew’s manifesto and his turning away from the established literary world as a continuation of the resistance of Russian authors against a state-regulated publishing system and samizdat.[4]

In 2007, Medvedev founded the Free Marxist Press, which publishes the works of Ernest Mandel, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Herbert Marcuse, Terry Eagleton, and Russian authors.[2]

In 2012, It’s No Good: poems/essays/actions a collection of poems, essays, and actions were published in English for the first time, by n+1 / Ugly Duckling Presse.[5][2] In it he described his perspective in and among the mainstream poets, the inextricable "link between politics and culture," and how refusal of copyright or recognition for his works is part of a fundamental role of art to challenge existing power systems.[6][7]

For an artist to take part in this system is to support and encourage it, even as he justifies himself with the idea that 'pure art is outside ideology and politics.'

— Kirill Medvedev, "Brecht Is Not Your Aunt", It's No Good (2012)

Musician

Medvedev has been performing vocals and guitar in the Arkadiy Kots Band, a riot-folk band based in Moscow which formed in 2010,[8] and is named after Russian socialist poet Arkady Kots.[9]

Activism

In the early 2000s Medvedev joined a small socialist party called Vpered ("Forward").[2] In 2017, Medvedev announced he was running in the municipal electionsin the Meshchansky District.[10] On 12 September 2017, he announced on the party's Facebook page that he received about 11% of the vote (379 votes) and was not elected.[11]

Reading his poems at the Moscow Poetry Biennale 2019

Personal life

In 2015 Medvedev said, that for several years he "was a stay-at-home father; more recently I have worked as a delivery man for several companies as well as a freelance book editor".[1]

References

  1. ^ a b Kirill Medvedev (September 17, 2015). "Why I gave up my copyright: Kirill Medvedev". The Guardian. Retrieved March 3, 2018.
  2. ^ a b c d e f Lucy McKeon (April 8, 2013). "New Emotion: On Kirill Medvedev". The Paris Review. Retrieved April 9, 2018.
  3. ^ MEDWEDEW, KIRILL (2020). ANTIFASCHISMUS FUR ALLE : manifest, essays und gedichte;manifest, essays und gedichte (in German). Translated by Matthias Meindl, Georg Witte (1ST ed.). Berlin: MATTHES & SEITZ Verlag. ISBN 3-95757-649-0. OCLC 1139663155.
  4. ^ Annette Gilbert (2021-10-10). "Kampf gegen das Urheberrecht". Deutschlandfunk Nova (in German). Retrieved 2021-10-14.
  5. ^ Medvedev, Kirill (2016). It's no good (Second ed.). Brooklyn: Ugly Duckling Press. ISBN 978-1-937027-82-7. OCLC 937392721.
  6. ^ Dwight Garner (March 20, 2013). "A Litany of Betrayals, Petty Yet Terrifying". New York Times. Retrieved April 9, 2018.
  7. ^ Chris Cumming (March 13, 2013). "Revolting Russians". BOMB Magazine. Retrieved April 9, 2018.
  8. ^ "Arkadiy Kots Band official site". Retrieved April 9, 2018.
  9. ^ Robert P. Baird (September 30, 2013). "Kirill Medvedev's Personable Provocations". The New Yorker. Retrieved April 9, 2018.
  10. ^ "In Russia, a poet declares his candidacy". Melville House. May 24, 2017. Retrieved April 9, 2018.
  11. ^ "Штаб Вместе на Мещанке". Facebook page. September 12, 2017. Retrieved April 9, 2018.
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