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Inspection Medical Hermeneutics was an artists’ collective formed in Moscow in 1987 by Sergei Anufriev (born 1964), Yuri Leiderman (born 1963), and Pavel Pepperstein (born 1966).
Together they made installations and performances which experimented with language and meaning, imagining their work as an investigation of their culture at a time when ‘Glasnost’ was opening it up to the West. They described ‘Glasnost’ as a moment when ‘the sky opened up’, akin to psychedelic experience, when a rupture between systems brings anxiety as well as the promise of renewal. Their work drew from Russian traditions and fairy tales – often relating these to objects from Western visual culture – as well as psychedelia and pseudo-scientific methodology. In founding member Pavel Pepperstein’s words, Inspection Medical Hermeneutics produced ‘a thick mumble, white noise and other incomprehensible, unclear things’. undefined