Ilya Kabakov The Man Who Flew into Space from His Apartment

"Ilya Kabakov's installation presents an isolated dreamer who develops an impossible project - to fly alone in outer space. Having built a makeshift slingshot, the hero apparently catapults through the ceiling of his shabby room and vanishes into space. The book presents an individual appropriation of a collective Soviet project and the official Soviet propaganda connected to it - where cosmic vision and the political project of the communist revolution are seen as indissoluble."--BOOK JACKET.Groys, Boris is the author of 'Ilya Kabakov The Man Who Flew into Space from His Apartment', published 2006 under ISBN 9781846380211 and ISBN 1846380219.