“Маня Фест”: идеологемы трансфуризма

In this paper the author sketches some basic principles of Transfurism, the later Avant-Garde movement led by Ry Nikonova and Sergei Sigei, the main platform of which became the samizdat journal Transponans. An important difference from the historical Avant-Garde, especially Futurism, is the absence in Transfurism of any orientation on the future and utopianism. To illustrate his argument the author provides some examples of both negative criticism of Transfurism and a defence, notably by the late Dmitrii Prigov.