Anton Polsky (Make) is a street artist, urban researcher and an art historian from Moscow. He has been involved in street art, DIY and urban planning projects in Russia.
Russia finds itself in a challenging political situation, the brain drain tendencies strengthened during the last monts. Pussy Riot visited Norway in May 2015 and recently in October to get the Vaclav Havel Prize at Oslo Freedom Forum. However, it is less known that Pussy Riot grew up from a broader environment of young artists and intellectuals in Moscow, who are working collectively for bringing changes to their country. If the democratic society starts with a civil involvement instead of passivity, and if a creative act instead of a direct aggression, so this is the case. Anton Polsky will share some of the methods he and his colleagues have been using in Moscow and other cities.
Make has taken part in DIY-festivals "Delay Sammit"
http://delaisam.org/cities/moscow/976 festival of activist art Media Impact
http://4th.moscowbiennale.ru/en/program/special_projects/impact.html street art and urban planning platform
Partizaning.org. http://partizaning.org/
