Pavel Arsenev is an artist and theorist. His joint artistic and research interests include the history of poetological and linguistic ideas, media ecologies and material cultures of the avant-garde, the technical history of literature and empirical science, and contemporary political poetry & (post)socialist independent publishing and counter-archives. He is now part of artistic research group agent_étrangers in Marseille.

Pavel’s main interest in art lies in the graphic aspects and materialisation of poetic texts. He is the co-founder of the Laboratory for Poetic Actionism and has participated in numerous art exhibitions, including Manifesta 10, Matadero (Madrid), «Disobedient objects» (Victoria and Albert Museum), Büro für kulturelle Übersetzungen (Leipzig), Kunstraum Dreiviertel (Bern), Subvision Kunst festival (Hamburg), Shedhalle (Zürich) and many others.

Pavel is one of the founding editors of the theoretical and literary journal [Translit] that unites an independent community of poets and scholars in post-Soviet countries and abroad. In 2012, he was awarded the oldest independent intellectual prize in Russia — the Andrei Bely Prize. His volumes of collected poems and essays have been published in Russian, English, Italian, French, German, and Greek. In 2021, he received his doctorate from the University of Geneva.

Pavel’s email: lartpaulars@gmail.com