Artistic culture of Yakutia: modern processes in search of identity

Abstract

The article is dedicated to the analysis of the contemporary state of the artistic culture of Yakutia at the turn of the 20th — early 21st centuries. The convergent stage, which determines the search for a new «identity» has become relevant for understanding the modern processes in Yakutia since the 1990s. The cultural modernity of Yakutia is considered from three angles: 1) the «sublated» content — a departure into the cultural «past» in Andrei Borisov’s theatrical productions; 2) the «current» content — the yet unfinished work of fashion designer A. Filippova with the representation of national forms of clothing; 3) the «potential» content of the arts outlines the staging of the future of modern culture in the 2010–2020s. This «potential» layer of culture should include projects of Yakut cinematography. Analysis of the convergent stage in the development of art in the region allows us to suggest that at the beginning of the 21st century, cinema consistently and quite naturally becomes the leader in the morphology of art in Yakutia, which in its cultural genesis integrates the possibilities of mass culture with the professionalism of all forms of art that have developed in the region.