Anna Titova and Stanislav Shuripa founded Agency of Singular Investigations (ASI) in 2014 to
take a stand on the dramatic changes in Russia's political reality and cultural atmosphere and
to respond to the advent of the postfactual age by thinking about alternative ways of
harnessing images and means of communication for the construction of identities and worldviews.
The publication's core is an extensive conversation between the artists and the curator Maria
Lind about the political situation the power and function of language artistic strategies
and their exhibition On New Thinking and Other Forgotten Dreams at the Secession. The dustcover
is an intervention by the artists and refers to two works in the exhibition. The handmade
cutout shows a young woman who appears to be dancing in reality she was brutally arrested by
police at an antiwar protest in Moscow in 2022. In the diagram Lavender Mist of History (2023)
the artists sketch a web of events that illustrates the history of decline and sclerosis in
Russia over the past several decades.
