June 25 — July 1, 2018
Minsk, Belarus
This year WORK HARD! PLAY HARD! invites you to join a week of events from 25 June to 1 July where we will navigate along the axes of several “parameters”, physical and conceptual spaces, the logics of temporality and themes. The system of parameters is rather flexible, referring to cross pollination, a cube-rubik or kaleidoscope: extensions, national academy of sciences as witch, High-Tech Park, pharmachoreography, places of transparency, political dancefloor, protocols of self-organisation, sanatorium, self-destructing structures, speculative synthesis, terror of relationship, tongue and teeth of creativity, etc.
βSCHEDULEβ
βMONDAY / 25 JUNEβ
β‘Cityβ‘
13:00, 15:00, 17:00, 19:00
Alisa Oleva. Reflections walk / one-to-one session. Registration required. Please specify the time and your phone number: alisaoleva@gmail.com
Reflections can multiply reality, confuse it or, on the contrary, act as a confirmation of existence in reality of that which is reflected. this walk will be just between me, you and the endless reflections. i am inviting you to refocus your optics and be ready to get lost in between the real and the reflected / to look through and to glance / to observe me and yourself in the reflections / to feel how the glass texture of urban modernity attracts and repulses, at the same time allows to approach and refuses entry.
Alisa Oleva. Born 1989 in Moscow. Based in London. Her practice aims to offer an alternative way to experience and engage with the everyday urban life around us by merging the sense of real and imaginary within the cityscape. She treats the city as her studio and urban life as material, to consider issues of private and public, visible and invisible, urban choreography and urban archeology, traces and surfaces, borders and inventories, voids and silences. Her projects manifest through participatory performance, urban interventions, walkshops, audio walks and photography.
12:45 — 15:00
Roman Aksionov. On both sides of the horizon. Excursion / Gathering from 12.45 to 13.00 on the street near Masherov 11, in a small grove nearby. Please do not be late, you will not be able to enter on your own later. Mobile phone for those who will be lost: +375291986594
On both sides of the horizon - a walk along the corridors of the already rented, but still not publicly opened hull of the plant. Old infographics, destroyed or supplemented with new meanings, views of the city through dusty windows, spying on the crack of abandoned factory operating departments, a rich variety of tablets with simple names of those who rent, a photo exhibit about the glorious past of the plant, a couple of options for an unexpected narrative domesticated monument, marginal graffiti and a small installation at the end of the tour in the studio, rented in this building. Balancing on the verge of a new "life" and "death" in its past status, the building appears in some most defenseless form.
Roman Aksionov is an artist, lives in Minsk. He practices different forms of traditional and contemporary art.
16:00 — 17:30
Anastasya Kizilova. Cybernetic Plants (PCP) / Start: near the main entrance into Youth Palace
Meeting of the reading group "Succulent therapy" with the involvement of people and plants, in particular succulents in one of the places of transparency in Minsk. The project explores the posthumanistic and non-humanistic culture and is based on building a communication platform and aimed at rethinking the situation of endless interspecific inequality, overcoming the limitations of vocabulary, and developing ways of interacting with other species.
The main artistic strategy of Anastasya Kizilova is creation of the open research field for interaction and communication. Artistsβ projects dedicated mainly to the questions of air-tightness of art society and itsβ autonomy. One of the goal of her projects is to implement into Russian and international art scenes alternative economic models. She is often trying to initiate processes which is never going to end, to create communication structures which can exist without her and to research human borders and borders of an art community (for example, through reading groups with plants participants). Since 2013 she is sewing identical uniforms for artists (even for those who are in the conflict between each other), constantly positioning herself in the art field as an art worker. Since 2016 she collects βFound Projectβ, archive of the unrealized art ideas which authors share gratuitously and anonymously with everyone to take the idea on realization.
β‘ECLAB ul.Oktyabrskaya 19B, 3rd floor, the audience number 12. Scheme how to get thereβ‘
21:00 — 21:30
Karen Karnak, Π’Π°Π΅ ΠΡΠ΅h. Lecture on Asemic Writing.
At the introductory lecture on asemic writing we will cover the practice itself, when it started, what goals and aims asemic writing pursues as a post-literate phenomenon. We will provide examples of early and contemporary asemic practices and quotes from the interviews with leading asemic theoreticians and artists. Time: 10-15 minutes
Ekaterina Samigulina, b. 1988, poet and asemic worker, member of Lipovy tsvet art group, creator and member of KYU literart band and Asemic International, partner DAMTP. Participated in Alytus Biennale 2011 and 2013., Marginal art festival 7-31 March 2014 (Liminal Gallery, Roanoke, VA). Publications: βCowβs Deathβ poem was published in Antipodes (11.11.11) and βIdiotβ almanac (2012); Asemic translations project was published in βTranslitβ journal (May, 2011) and Antipodes (2011); poems were published in βIdiotβ almanach (2006, 2011, 2012). In 2014 released a collection of poems βThe Cowβs Deathβ.
In 2012 graduated from Mogilev State University named after A.A. Kuleshov (specialty βrussian philologyβ). In 2014 graduated from the magistracy of BSPU named after M. Tank (specialty βliterary criticismβ). Now I am a graduate student of the first year at the department of russian and foreign literature (BSPU named after M. Tank).
Karen Karnak — asemic worker, poet, non-artist. Born in 1985, in The Republic of Belarus, Mogilev. Location — Minsk. In 2008 graduated from the Belarusian-Russian University. From 2008 to 2010 worked as a master at the factory Mogilevkhimvolokno. Founder and participant of the group βLipovy Tsvetβ and Asemic International, partner of DAMTP. Participated in Alytus Biennial 2011 and 2013 and in Marginal Arts Festival 7-31 March 2014 (Liminal Gallery, Roanoke, VA), in the exhibition βFour Cornersβ contemporary Art of Belarus 4-16 November 2014 (Luda Gallery, St.Β Petersburg)
21:30 — 22:30
Alexandra Novozhenova. Arithmetic of mobilization. Lecture.
"5X5 = 25", an exhibition of constructivist artists in 1921, already by its name brought to the fore the radical self-evidence of materialistic equality. Equality in the title can be understood not only arithmetically, but also as the underlying constructivist definition of the construction: a balance of multidirectional forces, which determine its stable existence in physical space. The arithmetic of the first five-year plan, with which artists dealt a decade later, radically differed from the straightforward truth of the constructivist equation. Two plus two now equated five, by which expressing the truth of mobilization.
An art critic, art historian, and lecturer. In her early studies Novozhenova focused on Soviet avant-garde theories and methodologies as well as on late-modernist Soviet art discourses and their post-Soviet aftermath and recontextualization.
βTUESDAY / 26 JUNEβ
β‘Secret sanatorium near Minskβ‘
Registration is required via email work.hard.play.0@gmail.com till 24.06
before sleep
Gleb Napreenko. Podcast "Work and rest in psychoanalysis". The work of truth, the price of knowledge. ***LISTEN PODCAST HERE***
Suppose a patient comes to a session of psychoanalysis and lies on the couch. Does he/she work at this time? Does he/she rest? Or, more precisely, what is inside of him that does a work in the process of analysis? And from what does he/she rest at the session? Finally, what does he/she pay for?
What is the specificity of the work of a psychoanalyst?
In what relations is it with hard work of a scientist - for example, Faust?
How does the psychoanalytic concept of pleasure relate to the modern neoliberal conditions of production, labor and leisure?
Gleb Napreenko will not let you sleep until you are up to.
Borned in 1989 in Moscow. Psychoanalyst, art historian. In 2016-2017 — the editor-in-chief of the journal βDisagreementsβ. Teacher of history and theory of art at the Rodchenko School and the Baza Institute. Based in Moscow.
βWEDNESDAY / 27 JUNEβ
β‘Secret sanatorium near Minskβ‘
Registration is required via email work.hard.play.0@gmail.com till 24.06
10:00
MUTRO ART GROUP. FIZ-RA.
The goal is to feel oneβs own body as perfected after a temporary constraint of oneβs movement and feelings.
Participants of the happening will dress each other in constraining clothes, after which there will be a good old favourite βfiz-raβ session.
Mutro Art group was found in 2010 by two artists — Timothy Maxymenko and Vano Sai — but each time collaborates with new artists. Group works in the field of contemporary art in different media such as performance, new media art. Our artistic practice is related to different topics and contexts from experiments with language and word itself, performative interactions in public to works which question such matters as relativity of time and space, metamorphosis of information and a role of modern human in the world.
14:00 — 16:00
Union of Convalescents. Two and a Half Essays on the Aesthetic Economy of Psyche.
First essay: Calculating Mental Disorder.
Demand transition to a new construction of psychiatric normativity! Accelerate production of disorders, diagnoses and therapies. Multiply and aestheticize them!
Union of Convalescents will try out a newly proposed unconventional diagnostic routine. Based on certain clinical tests that blend aesthetics and bureaucracy such as the test of an invented animal and MMPI, a 558-question-long quiz, we aim to reappropriate and detourn the conventions and assembly lines of souls.
Being more narrow non-specialists than psychiatrists or psychologists, we claim to see psychic life differently. We shall produce by displacing diagnoses, poetically, appealing to nonknowledges of alternative or para- psychologies. These studies are directed not only to the psyche, but also include faith beyond any principles.
The dialogic performance will produce diagnoses and prescriptions.
Second Essay: Egor Sofronov "Towards a Ruthless Critique of Everything Existing, Version 2018." A report in abeyance of disillusionment.
Why did Charles Baudelaire ask us to conceive as properly modern "an artist perpetually in the spiritual condition of the convalescent," always in attempt to supplement the edge of insanity that haunted him? This artist experiences urban modernity and the modernist culture inhabiting it as psychically traumatic in affects irreducibly negative, while trying to capture these affects in "things, even the most trivial in appearance."
The report is about writing in art, or practicing criticism. Why does the word "critique" mean negative affects and destructive operations? If in its systematic origin in Kant critique was understood as a juridical architecture for discernment and reason, then in later decades and until now critique has become a medium of specifically modern affect of negativity.
Union of Convalescents is a collective artistic initiative to explore constructions of psychiatric normativity. Privileging immaterial production and interdisciplinarity, its practice unfolds in local specificity and continuous, participatory engagement. The initiative was launched in 2014 as part of the MediaImpact festival.
Natalia Nikulenkova is an artist. She was born in 1987 in Nizhny Novgorod. Cofounder of the Union of Convalescents. She lives in Moscow and Nizhny Novgorod.
Egor Sofronov is an art critic. He was born in 1989 in Yakutsk. Editor of Moscow Art Magazine. He teaches at Baza Institute. In 2018β2019 he is a leading instructor in the newly launched Laboratory of Art Criticism at CCA Winzavod. Cofounder of the Union of Convalescents. He lives in Moscow.
18:00 — 18:10
Natalia Rebelo. Performance βFontana de Trevasβ.
Β«Fontana de TrevasΒ» is a performance piece. The name is inspired by Fontana di Trevi in Rome, but Trevi is transformed into trevas, which means murk in Portuguese. It is a voice and sound piece.
Natalia Rebelo is a visual artist based in Stockholm doing the MFA at Kungl. KonsthΓΆgskolan. Her work consists mostly of text, voice, sound and installations. Before WHPH she was in Mexico City doing a residency at Biquini Wax and worked on a performance piece temporarily named Fontana de Trevas.
18:20 — 19:00
APART. Sensitive antennae. Performance
Performance is some kind of collage of texts we created last year and are hyperconnected, changed, customized for Work Hard! Play Hard!. Last year we were focused on topic of Precarity, Labor, Full automation so the narrative is based on two stories, one is more practical, focused on NOW and our personal experience with collectivity, neoliberal critique in post-soviet country which fluenty will pass to imagination of full automated society. AI called ADA is speaking about new society and what she had to change. The story worked with theories as Russian Cosmism, Xenofeminism, Slovak neo-avantgarde and problematize concept of laziness.
Collective of artists APART arose in 2012. Since the beginning, its main program content is publication activity going under the name APART LABEL, which is mapping artistic expressions in their local environment. It focuses on selected tendencies of contemporary art forms, observes their and dwells on building an archive of this specific environment. Our ambition is not to map artistic activities in their full spectrum. We focus our attention on such outputs and researches of art forms, which in some cases reflect our own interest in specific themes.
In close connection with publishing activities, we are organizing Situations. Their realization is in forms of lecture, presentation, projects, exhibitions or they can accompany introduction of a book or they can exist as a single art piece. Their main attribute is performative character β work with various forms of temporality, ephemerality and unrepeatable character of the work.
Parallax is an intersection of our activities from the position of being artists. It includes exhibitions which we are attending as exhibiting artists, mostly it is collective presentations of APART collective, oftentimes in collaborations with close circuit of artists. Onwards it includes exhibitions, which are organized in our conception and projects, which we organize or contribute on their organization; often with international overlaps.
Publishing publications, organizing lectures, projections, curatorial projects are not seen from position of publisher, curator.., but from an artistβs perspective as an undetachable par of our artistic praxis. Today we consider the wide-spectrum of artistβs field as inevitable and last but not least collective cooperation, undergoing and evolving in constant dialogue.
19:00 — 20:00
Masha Kotlyachkova. Biobar βTango of psychobioticsβ.
A bar for you and your non-human friends, the morning after which you will feel neither sad nor apathetic.
Initiator of artistic relationships, former curator of Pikene pΓ₯ Broen residency (Norway). At the moment curating Camp As One in the south of Russia in august. Favourite formats of relational art productions — residencies and bars.
before sleep
Gleb Napreenko. Podcast "Work and rest in psychoanalysis". The work of truth, the price of knowledge. ***LISTEN PODCAST HERE***
Suppose a patient comes to a session of psychoanalysis and lies on the couch. Does he/she work at this time? Does he/she rest? Or, more precisely, what is inside of him that does a work in the process of analysis? And from what does he/she rest at the session? Finally, what does he/she pay for?
What is the specificity of the work of a psychoanalyst?
In what relations is it with hard work of a scientist - for example, Faust?
How does the psychoanalytic concept of pleasure relate to the modern neoliberal conditions of production, labor and leisure?
Gleb Napreenko will not let you sleep until you are up to.
Borned in 1989 in Moscow. Psychoanalyst, art historian. In 2016-2017 — the editor-in-chief of the journal βDisagreementsβ. Teacher of history and theory of art at the Rodchenko School and the Baza Institute. Based in Moscow.
βTHURSDAY / 28 JUNEβ
β‘National Library of Belarus / Nezavisimosti ave, 116β‘
IMPORTANT: To attend the events you need a library card, in case you do not have it, please take your passport with you and 2,24 rubles. Sessions will begin exactly at the appointed time, unfortunately those who are late will not be able to enter the hall.
13:30 — 15:00
Problem Collective. The Method of Reading / Meeting point: the foyer on the 1st floor.
Inspired by and deconstructing the methods of the early Soviet reading groups aimed at self-education of peasants and workers, and also discussing contemporary state of reading and text, the "Problem Collective" invites to the session of collective reading. The PC offers to read the "List of MOPR Pavilion Exhibits" - a historical document found in the national archives of the Republic of Belarus. The document lists the exhibits that were placed in the MOPR Pavilion at the First All-Belarusian Agricultural and Industrial Exhibition in Minsk (1930). The MOPR Pavilion was built and designed by the artist and constructor Aleksanteri Ahola-Valo, who in the experimental display recorded the history of political violence.
Image: Ahola-Valo A. Sketches of the MOPR pavilion. Paper, pencil. Minsk, 1930. The archive of A. Ahola-Valo in HΓ€meenlinna, Finland.
The βProblem Collectiveβ is an artistic and research group, formed in Minsk in 2016 by Aleksei Borisionok, Uladzimir Hramovich, Alesia Zhitkevich and Olia Sosnovskaya.
14:30 — 17:00
Cara Tolmie. βGender of Soundβ Listening Session / Meeting point: the foyer on the 1st floor.
For the listening session each participant is asked to bring a sound or piece of music that you wish to discuss in relation to gender. You will not be expected to present these to the group as an expert, rather the object of this session will be to excavate all the signs and associations that we can from each sound together in discussion.
Attempting to find ways to listen together with specific emphasis on how we might hear these sounds through a frame of gender, these sessions will endeavour to find a collective language in order to reflect upon what we hear, how it affects our bodies, its poetic dimension, its political implication and how this might relate both to personal and collective experience. These are open sessions that hope to learn and find a shared language from a wide range of listeners. It is important to us that this project lay its foundations on a wide range of testimonies from friends, peers and strangers. All experience or inexperience, passion, scepticism, excitement and taste towards music is welcomed.
Gender of Sound is a research project led by Susanna Jablonski and Cara Tolmie that explores past, present and future debates on the position of gender, performativity and resistance within sound. It is supported and funded by the Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm 2017-19. More information here
Cara Tolmie works from within the intersections of performance, music and moving image. Her practice probes the site-specific conditions of performance-making by finding ways to vocalise and place her body in order to access the political and poetic capabilities of physical, written and musical languages.
β‘Secret place / Events via registrationβ‘
19:00 — 19:15
Valentina Petrova. The series of lectures on soviet working posters in the era of late capitalism. Registration is required via email capediat@gmail.com
The performance extended in time and space.
Artist and feminist.
19:20 — 20:20
Postanatomical theatre Maailmanloppu. βCircumcision of the Boundless Fleshβ Musical-installation / Registration is required via email pistolettcentr@gmail.com
Borderless, foreskin, scalpel, circumcision β performance about the surgery, happiness and futuristic forecasts, bio-hacker, love as an ethical art. the musical move. "Endless Circumcision of the Flesh" / βCircumcision of the Boundless Fleshβ
Borderless, foreskin, scalpel, circumcision β installation of tinkling bodies.
Borderless, foreskin, scalpel, circumcision β Musical-installation.
Texts for singing are written by text- generators, libretto- generators, synopsis- generators ).
TEXTUAL example:
If I were your body, I would never let you sew this on.
I'd run from you by my arms, you'd never be alone. I could be your heart, anything you want.
If only I could be your body, I would never let you sew it on me.
Baby, baby. I thought you'd always be mine.
When I met you, my nose did like this: knock-knock like hippos ran over my fingers. And despite the fact that our love battle is all that we have, we have to stand still, lying on top of the mountain.
Hey!
nanananananananaahnanananananananaah biological object βββββββββ
So, sometimes tinkling lying bodies sounds like this during the performance. The project makes an attempt to popularize knowledge about the human body beyond the concept of healthy lifestyle, beyond the body, beyond smh else ... .Also, it accumulates new knowledge.
-Ivan, are you circumcised?
- How can I be circumcised, my foreskin is endless Β»
The musical as programm is proceeding according to the plot: diagnosis -pain -anesthesia -operation-cyborg-teleportationβ re - rudimentation - new body with new functions -what?
It is a project that offers to read the text and sing songs (projection on the ceiling), created by a text generator. In St. Petersburg, it existed as a performance, with spectators and real performers. At this stage, we are interested to create collective immovable musical with participation of human voices themselves, gravity, body weight and mass of speech. Performative text of the project came through some kind of teleport (formal connections) so finally we got blocks separated. Afterwards we reconstructed textual base and got the plot:: diagnosisβpainβanesthesiaβsurgeryβcyborgβ teleportationβ RErudimemtation β new body with new functions - what?
What can happen if my rudiments recover to its true functions after teleportation??
Alexandra Abakshina with Alina Shklyarskaya created the Post — anatomy theatre Maailmanloppu https://www.facebook.com/manloppu/
We call ourselves the radical branch of modern theater. We are interested in practical transdisciplinarity.
Post- anatomy project theater MAAILMANLOPPU — forms mobile alliances, creative groups, integrates various types of knowledge and practices to study the phenomena of modern reality. The authors argue that only modern theatrical practices can present a phenomenon (including a scientific one) in the form of real experience. The groupβs artistic practice is a situation of shame (crude style), an emergency situation, abandoning the image, preferring the literal to provoke the spectatorβs view / hearing, without involving.
βA piece of meat activated by electric waves of desire, a text written by the unfolding of genetic encodingβ. Rosi Braidotti
Teratologies: Montrous Technoscapes 2000
21:00 — 23:00
Apparatus 22 and Sergey Kantsedal. Party-marathon βPositive Tension (on curating)β / Registration is required via email kantsedalserghei@gmail.com
Can a party, a marathon and an alternative school be squeezed as one in a small paper bag? Apparently it is possible. Here comes Apparatus 22βs Positive Tension (on curating): a brown bag with several hundreds of confetti plus a set of instructions both serious and hilarious. All these lay the prerequisite for a party β a celebration with a twist since the confetti in eye candy colors are inscribed with 130 questions of various kinds β from analytical to intuitive, from abstract to very precise β on countless topics (including myths, taboos and rules) about curating, turning the work | party into a marathon of critical thinking. Curators and cultural workers are invited to participate.
Apparatus 22 is a transdisciplinary art collective founded in January 2011 by current members Erika Olea, Maria Farcas, Dragos Olea and Ioana Nemes (1979 — 2011) in Bucharest, Romania. Since 2015 working between Bucharest and Brussels, Apparatus 22 think itself as a collective of dreamers, researchers, poetic activists and (failed) futurologists.
Sergey Kantsedal is a curator from Kharkov (Ukraine) based in Turin (Italy). He currently is a curator of a non-profit association Barriera and working for OGR YOU (Young Adults) CLUB & TALKS — new program for teenagers.
β‘City / backyards of the hotel DoubleTree.β‘
00:00 — 00:30
Valentina Petrova. The series of lectures on soviet working posters in the era of late capitalism.
The performance extended in time and space.
Artist and feminist.
00:30 — 01:30
atom. a walk through.
today, when the city has become a territory designed by urbanists and filled with crossings, benches, flowerbeds and fences, we invite you for a late-evening parkour session. our movement will be based on a game invented by Yamakasi, which is called βfollow the leaderβ. in it a group of people moves in silence, following the changing leader through the streets. everyone overcomes all encountered obstacles in whatever way they can. this will allow us to feel anew our own bodies in relation to space: we will touch, overcome, jump, step, balance, hold, make our way through. all abilities wellcome.
atom is an art group, which consists of Alisa Oleva and Timothy Maxymenko. we move, listen, trespass, infiltrate, climb, jump over, overhear, touch and invite you to join us.
βFRIDAY / 29 JUNEβ
β‘Dance Studio / Very Horuzhei, 3β‘
13:10 — 14:10
Frida SandstrΓΆm. Inburst. Discussion and movement session.
By claiming the present, dance is always beyond its own work. In the very same moment as it takes place, dance is un-working. The difficulty to call it an art(work) can be traced historically, where itβs work is also its artwork: ergon is parergon, production is product. This separates dance from all other artforms.
This talk will trace what we can learn from an artform where the frame of the piece is under constant negotiation: economically, spatially and temporally. What does the history of dance say about the self-sustaining precarity of a contemporary body at work, today?
The talk will be held in english.
Frida SandstrΓΆmβs practice takes place in the intersection of art criticism and the pedagogical, with writing and performance as its core. She is one of the editors of Paletten Art Journal and a frequent writer in Swedish cultural journals and magazines. Frida currently studies a masters program in aesthetics at SΓΆdertΓΆrn University.
β‘National Library of Belarus / Nezavisimosti ave, 116β‘
IMPORTANT: To attend the events you need a library card, in case you do not have it, please take your passport with you and 2,24 rubles. Sessions will begin exactly at the appointed time, unfortunately those who are late will not be able to enter the hall.
15:20 — 16:05
Valentina Petrova. The series of lectures on soviet working posters in the era of late capitalism / Meeting point: the foyer on the 1st floor.
The performance extended in time and space.
Artist and feminist.
16:10 — 17:00
Puchkova Sasha. (im) possible object. Discussion around. Self-destructing systems. Performative seminar.
The research group is an experimental fluid formation. That is part of the project (im) possible-object wich will present at the CCI "Fabrika" in July 2018 as part of the Moscow International Biennale for Young Art.
The main goal of the group is to formulate possible laws for the existence of some unknown object of the future.
In this case, the "object of the future", it is also (im) possible-object can be different for everyone. The laws could be speculative and hey are not supported by a critical theory. RG tries not to generate or reproduce encyclopedic knowledge, but that want to travel on scraps of assumptions. RG is not contain a fixed number of participants and is not tied to the exact place of action.
It does not contain a fixed number of participants. The group is not tied to the exact place of action. Each new place where the participants gather is making its own contexts and features into it. Only the schedule of meetings is more or less constant, but it is also capable of updating
It does not contain a fixed number of participants. The group is not tied to the exact place of action. Each new place where the participants gather is making its own contexts and features into it. Only the schedule of meetings is more or less constant, but it is also capable of updating.
At WORK HARD! PLAY HARD! will be an online session with RG "(Im) possible-object. Discussion around: Self-Destructive Systems."
Speculative talk / or monologue will be devoted to systems that can destroy themselves in the quest for a perfect solution. And also periodic nullification as a (natural?) experience of existence.
Artist, lives/works in Moscow, student of the Rodchenko School. Interests: Media as a tool for regulating personal and public space, sound and impact of sound on communication, performative practices, speculative practices of future production
β‘Club-Bar Luch / 3 floor, Tolbuhina 4β‘
18:00 — 18:40
Lika Kareva. NEED FOR SPEED. Lecture.
Π lecture on Nick Landβs 90βs Accelerationism, using Need For Speed video game as a metaphor.
Graduated from Literature Institute in Moscow, xenopoet, a member of Russian cyberfeminist collective.
18:50 — 19:30
Pavlo Mitenko, Eugene Markin. Dispositive is the message / theoretical and dance jam with a DJ on the dance floor.
Rave-philosophy, installation, choreography on dancefloor. It is about a term βdispositiveβ (Foucault) and its influence on contemporary aesthetico-political analysis and practises.
Pavlo Mitenko is a researcher, artist, activist. He is working on thesis on Moscow actionism. Member of working group of MediaImpact festival and antipsychiatry interdisciplinaty group Union of The Convalescents
Eugene Markin is a musician, sound artist, DJ.
18:50 — 19:30
/ parallel / Ilya Firdman. Injections of Pure Time. Interactive performance.
No one has ever enough time. Time is taken away from us by job that we love, is taken away by job that we hate, by oneβs everyday functions and bad habits. For freeing our time we can reorganize everyday life or political reality, but situation can become so urgent that one have to get an injection of pure time here and now. Ilya Firdman, researcher of Idleness Research Institute, offers you a replacement therapy developed by him: you get a pill containing time and can dive into pure idleness for some minutes while the therapist taking over your time-robbing business.
Researcher at Fundamental Minimization of Action Department of n i i c h e g o d e l a t (SRI for doing nothing) Ilya Firdman is working with text installations and interactive performances, is interested in problematics of mindfulness and its edges.
n i i c h e g o d e l a t (SRI for doing nothing) is a network of horizontal laboratories, which stands for a world without labor.
19:40 — 20:00
Valentina Petrova. The series of lectures on soviet working posters in the era of late capitalism.
The performance extended in time and space.
Artist and feminist.
20:10 — 20:22
Marina Russkikh and Helga Zinzyver. Boring Dance.
After a night of insomnia, the body grows weaker,
Becomes beloved, and no oneβs, - not even your own.
Just like a seraph, you walk, smiling at people,
And arrows, stuck in slow veins, continue to moan.
(By Marina Tsvetaeva)
Having failed in a field of curating and criticism in the sphere of the contemporary art, the former pensioner, and nowadays a researcher at RI for doing nothing Marina Russkikh had endured a severe nervous breakdown which led to insomnia and procrastination. The woman tries to recover from an illness with help of medicamentous and other means.
n i i c h e g o d e l a t (SRI for doing nothing) is a network of horizontal laboratories, which stands for a world without labor.
Researcher at Delay Department of RI for doing nothing Marina Russkih researches a practice of small movements as experimental method of doing nothing which allows to overcome enslaving rates of capitalistic oppression. Let yourself be slow. Feel the touch of air against the back of your palm. Hang inbetween.
Researcher at Delay Department of RI for doing nothing Helga Zinzyver is a Dj and sound artist. Helga works with sound in performative practices, studies body and sound interactions. Interests: changing perception of time using sound, the intuitive connections between musicians, dancers and listeners, sleep, old records, new ways of sound production, speech like music, disco for tired people.
20:40 — 21:20
Cara Tolmie. Syringa. Performance.
Syringa is a recent performance work using voice, fragile touch and music. It is a delicate balancing act, fluttering on the blurry shift between interior and exterior positioning. Syringa is a disposition that listens to and learns from small sounds, repetitive operations, skipping records, self soothing hands, non-human rhythms and explosive sampling.
Image: from Incongruous Diva, Performance at Norberg Festival 2017
Cara Tolmie works from within the intersections of performance, music and moving image. Her practice probes the site-specific conditions of performance-making by finding ways to vocalise and place her body in order to access the political and poetic capabilities of physical, written and musical languages.
21:30 — 22:40
Helga Zinzyver. DJ set βSleeping musicβ.
Flowing waves of sound fill the sleep space. The air is woven from fragments of conversation, popular compositions, unknown improvisations.
The experience of the excluded DJ: Can you play more cheerful music? We canβt dance. - Ok, you donβt have to dance. This is a disco for tired people.
You donβt have to move at all, you can watch the pulses of the cerebral cortex. You can talk, sing, keep silent, dream, to be present here and now, there and then, inside and after. You can dance, of course, too. If you want.
In performative-sound practice Helga proposes to stretch the concept of "disco" and move (or not move) guided by internal sensations from sound waves.
n i i c h e g o d e l a t (SRI for doing nothing) is a network of horizontal laboratories, which stands for a world without labor.
Researcher at Delay Department of RI for doing nothing Helga Zinzyver is a DJ, sound artist. Helga works with sound in performative practices, studies body and sound interactions. Interests: changing perception of time using sound, the intuitive connections between musicians, dancers and listeners, sleep, old records, new ways of sound production, speech like music, glitch, disco for tired people.
22:50 — 23:50
The Center for the Research on Intimate Interfaces (Polina Shilkinite, Sasha Pistoletova, Jozhi Stolet). JOY: DATABASE OF DANCE MOVES FOR RAVE.
This project is a production of acceleration. We understand acceleration as a ride with the wind in a burst of pure joy. During raves we donβt use other technologies except our own bodies and bodies of other people. We offer to ride on your body and on a strangers bodies for the production of pure joy. Each Teenage MUTANT NINJA TURTLE has its own type of weapon and methodology for this weapon, same way every dancer has his own best move for dancing and for body automatization.
Algorithm:
1. Biohacking without surgery and medicine (except for doping): you can put on rollers and go (the body moves itself), you can implant the chip, and the door will open by itself. We suggest that you use someone else's movement and its repetition, hack the body.
2. Pure joy is produced by repetition. Repetition of someone else's movement is like a machine or a car that moves without purpose. When I repeat for you, my body moves itself. Your dance moves is my machine.
3. The database will be presented in the form of a website on google server and in a form of a practice at a party/rave/social evening WH!PH!. Approximate time 1.5 hours.
Practice: first we dance of dance moves from the site's base, then everyone can offer their dance moves, which then we put into the database.
Individual dance moves will be collectivized!
The Center for the Research on Intimate Interfaces was founded in 2017, the group of cyberfeminists from Moscow and St.Β Petersburg. The composition of the group does not have clear outlines and includes designers, poets, independent researchers, directors and so on. At the moment, this is the first project of CRII, which will be executed in the form of happening.
00:00 — 01:00
bitchcoin, data sabotage. Dj-set βThat's Me Me Me. Please be SsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSs. I Have A Message For Youβ by bitchcoin. Visual intervention by data sabotage.
Intimate DJ set of queer and fem musicians and an interface for the playlist in vkontakte: https://bitchcoin.in/.
Exclamations and glued spots by bitchcoin. Speculative disco where music converts into the text and vice versa. The time of an intimate message reading is not equal to the time of set listening.
Visual intervention by data sabotage exploits VJ-set as a space where diffused affects born on the dancefloor can be politicized through alienation and discomfort.
bitchcoin is an alter-ego of artist Dzina Zhuk who works with voice, audio and sci-fi synth, deconstructed club, future beats.
data sabotage works with political potential of affects using dancefloor as a space for experiments.
βSATURDAY / 30 JUNEβ
β‘Cityβ‘
12:00 — 15:00
Andrei Karpeka and Nastia Tulayeva. A walk through the semicircle. / Places are limited, register at minskurban@gmail.com until 29.06. Please send the name and phone number.
The semicircle is an artificial canal and a complex engineering structure that seems to be an accidental natural artifact. Its material forms embody the rationality to which the socialist city was subject: the maximization of production, the improvement of health, the provision of leisure. To make nature work for the city, it was necessary to build a large-scale engineering and landscape-architectural system, which it is now unable to support.
We invite you for a walk to the architectural dream, which could be fulfilled only under socialism.
Photo: Dmytro Soloviov
Andrei Karpeka is an urbanist and researcher. Nastia Tulayeva is an architect, co-editor of urbanist.by. Participants of the Minsk Urban Platform.
15:00 — 16:00
Marina Maraeva. Pyosball / Tram stop βDS Zialiony Luhβ.
Collective modification of football game rules that will be done by humans and at least one dog.
Marina Maraeva — lawyer, independent researcher, cultural worker.
Research interests: dialog, decision making, justice, collective subject, weak connections, frame theory, public health, cosmism, feminist writing, gender studies.
β‘Dance Studio / Very Horuzhei, 3 / Main entrance, Kusturitsa studioβ‘
18:30 — 19:30
WORK HARD! PLAY HARD! working group. Fatigue and pharmachoreography. Performative seminar.
During the seminar the working group of WH!PH! invites you to play-test protocols of collectivity to explore the notions of fatigue and pharmachoreography, affects and discipline, creativity and corruption. What is to be controlled and programmed and what is to be kept spontaneous or βunsafeβ?
WORK HARD! PLAY HARD! working group consists of Aleksei Borisionok, Olia Sosnovskaya, Nicolay Spesivtsev and Dzina Zhuk, who sustain it on a relatively regular but constant basis.
19:35 — 20:10
Anastasia Vepreva. The ideal formulation of the refusal of the artist. Lecture.
Recently, the artist increasingly needs to be able to build into the bureaucratic system of international residences, grants and prizes, invent as many unique projects as possible and write tons of boring applications. However, the competition in this field is very strong and most often the artist receives only a refusal in response instead of explanation. Refusal can be cold, neutral or even friendly - it is invented by workers of institutions sitting on the other side of the barricade. It's hard for them, too.
The lecture will analyze the particularity of the use of certain formulations of refusals to the artist, various approaches to refusal are highlighted, and a copy will be developed of an ideal, pleasant from all directions, not an offensive, - creative refusal to the artist.
Anastasia Vepreva, specialist, based in St.Β Petersburg. MA in Bureaucratic Speech Science in Northern (Arctic) Federal University named after M.V. Lomonosov.
20:15 — 20:55
Daniil Bolshakov. HTP and βzone of offensive opacityβ
With the help of the Andrew Culpβs βDark Deleuzeβ project, weβll try to describe HTP as an βcharge that will explode that will explore, make fall what must fall, make escape what must escapeβ (Anti-Oedipus). But HTP doesnβt undermine the structures of βjoyfulβ productivity and connectivity society, rather it withdrawing post-socialist ideological and repressive apparatus, which is close to dark by their nature. Will it manage to do this by the means of spreading horizontal organization and flat ontologies, someway similar with ontologies in computer science?
Faculty Of Philosophy And Social Sciences, BSU student. The sphere of interests: XXth century continental political philosophy; the ontological turn in contemporary continental thought.
21:05 — 21:20
Valentina Petrova. The series of lectures on soviet working posters in the era of late capitalism.
The performance extended in time and space.
Artist and feminist.
21:30 — 22:30
Lena Klabukova. BE WATER MY FRIEND. Workshop.
In the information world, the main commodity, tool and weapon is an individual's attention. In order to effectively confront the world of effectiveness, you need to get in contact with this world, dissolve your own internal blocks and your self or at least control them. Direct combat is the most inefficient way of fighting. Love your enemy, understand her, become her, defeat her.
Multilevel distributed work with information requires special preparation and daily exercise on the physical and mental levels. On the infoyoga workshop we will get acquainted with a complex of traditional practices for working with attention, updated by the author for working with information. Concentration, dispersion, distribution, deep acceptance, relaxation, improvement of permeability, subconscious work. The result will be an increase in the effectiveness of your creativity.
Each participant will receive individual recommendations on personal comprehensive practice.
Dress comfortably.
Lena Klab β person of melted identity, punk improviser, theory lover, practice lover.
β‘Cityβ‘
all day
Roman Osminkin. Dance However You Can. Series of street political hip-hop sets.
The dancing body becomes a political body in a place not intended for dancing, as it blurs the boundaries of the private / public by its own presence. Street dance in the midst of everyday practices refers to a collective dancing body that can be gathered at any time in any place of the city. Our linguistic abilities are reconnected with our bodies in the performative assembly, simple fisicality becomes social and meaningful without losing its materiality - plasticity and the identity of each body. This collective-in-division, urban-anthropological assemblage, connects different identities in a specific place and time, to point out the artificiality of any assembly, and therefore the possibility of rebuilding our bodies on new ones-not hierarchical, non-toxic grounds.
Saint Petersburg based poet, performer, art theorist. Author of poetry and short prose books, Comrade-Thing (Kraft, 2010), Comrade-Word (Kraft, 2012), Texts with external objectives (NLO, 2015), Not A Word About Politics! (Cicada Press, NY, 2016). — Winner of the POETRY SLAM SPb, 2006, 2010 and the video-poetry festival Β«Fifth legΒ» 2010, 2016. Member of the editorial board of the Β«TranslitΒ», the most influential leftist journal of poetry and literature theory in Russia. His musical project Techno-Poetry performs regularly at festivals and art openings. Tehno-Poetryβs music albums published: Β«Think of your SoulΒ» (2012), βto People of Laborβ (2014), Β« No presupposition clausesΒ» (2017). Osminkin frequently acts as an invited lecturer in various institutions in Russia and around the world.
βSUNDAY / 1 JULYβ
β‘City / Meeting near the monument to Marat Kazeiβ‘
11:30 — 12:50
Welcome To The Dollhouse!. Π‘atechism for the Mass on dresser (on physical medium!)
"Welcome To The Dollhouse" proudly presents the new project: Π‘atechism for the Mass on dresser (on physical medium!). Our official confessional writing, the heralding edification, the small and dangerous book containing basic doctrines which we will introduce during the luxuriant Mass solemnly preceded with Donna Jeanne Haraway words: "I regretted not being able to be a bat boy in the same way I regretted not being able to be a Jesuit, so I heard my dollsβ confessions in my closet with the sliding doors and said Mass for them on my dresser. I have changed since then from a junior Catholic theologian to a much less innocent feminist scribbler, from a parochial school basketball forward, to a writer of her own game stories."
Welcome To The Doll House! is a collaboration between Uliana Bychenkova & Zhanna Dolgova. Welcome to the doll house! has begun in 2016 during their study at School of Involved Art in Saint Petersburg established by art collective Chto delat? (What is to be done?). Their artistic activity takes forms of fi ctitious institutions, video postcards, holidays and feminist writings. As artists describing, βthe main goal of the artistic duo is development (most of the time with a usage of aesthetics of awkwardness) of female subjectivity and female sensuality; school experience and school sensuality; secret (girlfriends) pleasures. By experiencing radical feminist chaos, creating structures (for erotisation) of language, and using artistic practice for dramatic purposesβ.
β‘Waste land in place of demolished VDNH. ul. Ya. Kupaly, 27β‘
13:00 — 15:00
Uladzimir Hramovich. In Search of fragments of the Crystal Palace. Archeological picnic and conference.
The event will take place at the waste ground in the city center, on the site of demolished building VDNKh (builded in 1968). This "Crystal palace" became an example of destruction of public spaces, spaces for exhibition and self-exposure, of opportunity to be a viewer and to be seen. The goal of the event is to retrieve this space for a short time, make the territory visible and become visible ourselves with help of archaeological picnic. To collect the splinters, to make arrows.
Uladzimir Hramovich is exploring the development and the influence of the ideology and social transformation on βthe matterβ in his works: whether it is in lithography, historical documents and in the cityβs structure. He is interested in the stuck of the memory in the copies and reproductions between freshly paved stone blocks, where there is no more any βauraβ but there is something which is absent in the original.
β‘room 3/0/2. Lenina st. 50-302. Video programme.β‘
16:00 — 16:10
Oleksiy Radynski. βThe film of Kyiv. Episode oneβ, 2017.
Podilsky Bridge in Kyiv is one of the worldβs largest abandoned construction sites. The locals have adapted the uncompleted bridge to their own needs - from sports and leisure to risky parcour-style attempts at getting from one river bank to another. In the meantime, Kyivβs mayor Vitaliy Klitschko is trying to figure out a way to complete the unfortunate project - with a little help from German politiciansβ¦
Oleksiy Radynski is a filmmaker and writer based in Kyiv. He is a participant of Visual Culture Research Center, an initiative for art, knowledge, and politics founded in Kyiv, 2008. His films have been screened at Oberhausen IFF, DOK Leipzig IFF, e-flux (New York), S A V V Y Contemporary (Berlin), Royal Institute of British Architecture (London), and other venues. He recently gave talks and presentations at Berlinale Forum Expanded, Museum of Modern Art (New York), Shtab (Bishkek), Institute for Contemporary Arts (London), and UdK (Berlin). His texts have recently been published in Proxy Politics: Power and Subversion in a Networked Age (Archive Books, 2017), Art and Theory of Post-1989 Central and East Europe: A Critical Antology (MoMA, 2018), and in e-flux journal.
16:10 — 16:25
Ju Toman. βF247 ' plankton-karaokeβ, 2018.
Structuralist video experience of transparency and mechanisms of the invisible control, encrusted in the glass walls of business centers. Corporate ethics of visibility, gloss and smart design of enslavement, chips and sunlight shining through the roof. What if something happens to me?
Ju Thoman / film researcher, video essayist, translator.
16:25 — 16:35
Sasha Zubritskaya. βWork/life balanceβ, 2017 and βWorkersβ choreographyβ, 2017-2018.
'Work / life balance': Workerβs daydream. Distracted and bored bodies are present at their paid jobs, yet wishing to slip away, attempting to achieve work/life balance right at oneβs workplace. Fill in the pause or make the pause happen.
'Working choreography': Urban-dance, collective movements keeping your city fit and growing. Post-Soviet mise-en-scene: acting soloist and several observers in the corps de ballet providing emotional support.
Born and based in St.Β Petersbrurg, Russia. BA in applied arts (textiles). Works with various media, investigating intersubjectivity, sexuality and aesthetics of (mis)fortune. Member of βFemInfotekaβ (grass-root feminist library) collective.
16:35 — 16:40
Maria Rybka and Yuriy Kuzmenko. βPlants will be everywhereβ, 2018.
In the body of capitalism, efficiency and the creative economy there are gaps. Empty shiny pavilions store the remains of former luxury - gold letters and mannequins in bright T-shirts. Nearby are still selling fantasy pantyhose and pre-owned phones, but you can see less desire to consume it, the new forms of consumption and recreation replace the old good
Consuming in malls, where you need to communicate with shop assistants, asking for the necessary size, price - starting dialogue.
The tower of the shopping center is empty, at the mallβs apex people drink beer in the billiard room in 12 AM, in the same time boutiques with the inviting inscription "RENT" are occupied by plants. There are a lot of them, they are different, they sprout through the wasteland and fill them.
New green tenants change the quality of space, turning it from a place of interaction and consumption into a place for contemplation, stopping steps and time of rare mallβs guests.
Maria Rybka is an artist, mainly working with textiles, a member of the creative association βNADENKAβ.
Yuriy Kuzmenko is an artist, designer, mainly using digital images (photography) and video.
16:40 — 17:00
Alesia Zhitkevich. βIn the gentle embrace of the speculative worldβ, 2018.
βSitius! Altius! Forty!β β the slogan of the Olympics can perfectly describe our contemporary being. Be better, more beautiful, richer, happier, stronger, smile, and consume β all that the capitalist formation provokes us to, in fact, does not make us happier, but generates a feeling of anxiety and prostration. What will happen to us in the future? Will such concepts as transhumanism help alleviate human suffering? Can we radically increase the level of human happiness in a humane way? How effective are psycho-practices and means for fighting suffering?
Artist. The main artistic activity is based on the correlation of art and philosophy. Works with graphics, video and texts.
17:40 — 18:00
Valentina Petrova. The series of lectures on soviet working posters in the era of late capitalism.
The performance extended in time and space.
Artist and feminist.
18:00 — 18:35
Virgile Novarina. "Inner Telescope, a Space Artwork by Eduardo Kac", 2017 / French with English subtitles.
Created by the artist Eduardo Kac to exist in weightlessness and to be made on board the International Space Station by French astronaut Thomas Pesquet, the work Inner Telescope lays the foundation for a new form of art and poetry, freed from the constraints of gravity. The film "Inner telescope, a space artwork by Eduardo Kac", takes us on an artistic and scientific journey from the conception of the work in Eduardo Kac's studio in Chicago to its realization in orbit by Thomas Pesquet, 400 km away from Earth, during the Proxima mission of the European Space Agency.
With Eduardo Kac, Thomas Pesquet, GΓ©rard Azoulay, Hugues Marchal and Thierry Duquesne. Directed by Virgile Novarina. A production of the Observatoire de lβEspace, the art-science lab of the French Space Agency (CNES), with the assistance of ESA and the support of the Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation.
After studying Mathematics and Physics, Virgile Novarina (born in France in 1976) devoted himself to the artistic exploration of his own sleep through writings and drawings, and the sleep of others through photographs and films. He has published seven books of Nightβs Writings and Drawings, and has exhibited his work in France, Germany, Portugal, Belgium, Poland and the United States. Since 2006 the very act of sleeping has become an integral part of his work, through the βEn Sommeβ series of performances, during which he sleeps publicly in shop windows, galleries or museums.
In 2002 Virgile Novarina befriended the painter Jean-Olivier Hucleux, whom he regularly filmed from 2005 to 2009. βJean Olivier Hucleux, from the work to the artworkβ (60β, 2012, a.p.r.e.s production) is his first documentary. Previously he made βAround sleepβ (2004, 12 min.), a short film unfolding on the course of one day whose only characters are sleepers and yawners. In 2016 he directed βDeep into Sleepβ (39β, a.p.r.e.s Production), a literary and philosophical descent into various sleep states, with Michel Butor, ClΓ©ment Rosset, Pierre Pachet, and Jean-Luc Nancy. His last film, βInner Telescope, a Space Artwork by Eduardo Kacβ (35β, Observatoire de lβEspace, 2017) takes us in a journey from earth towards the International Space Station for the creation of the first spatial poem conceived by Kac for weightlessnessβ¦
β‘Cityβ‘
19:00
Tae Ateh. Asemic Intervention in the Forest / Registration to the workshop is required till 1.06 via email: katya.samigulina@gmail.com
We are planning to collectively create one or two asemic rooms in a forest. After randomly choosing a place in a forest, for example using psychogeografy and situationist practices. We will assign random GPS coordinates and travel through the forest until we reach the destination (obviously within 5-10 km outside Minsk beltway). Number of participants is limited to 8 at most.
Examples of similar practices: Asemic room created during the Alytus Biennale in 2015.
The goal of this kind of practices is to explore collective sensibility and expose new media of communication between the asemic and nature Β interaction of the languages of nature and art in their closest approach. Asemic writing is by itself very close to natural phenomena that are impermanent, mutable, interdependent, ageing and dying.
We might also interact with grass and trees using paint as if zoning the space.
All in all, the point of the collective practice is to elaborate new forms of interaction.
The result is photo and video documentation made in 1 or 2 years, which will allow for recording of natureβs impact on art.
In 2012 graduated from Mogilev State University named after A.A. Kuleshov (specialty βrussian philologyβ). In 2014 graduated from the magistracy of BSPU named after M. Tank (specialty βliterary criticismβ). Now I am a graduate student of the first year at the department of russian and foreign literature (BSPU named after M. Tank).
β‘"Lohvinau" Book Store / Nyezalyezhnastsi ave. 37Π°β‘
20:00 — 21:00
Your motherβs maiden name. Feminist piano rap.
Your motherβs maiden name (Saint Petersburg, Russia) performs profeminist piano rap. This is an art- and pedagogical research project with feminist agenda and focus on continuous reflection around horizontal relationship and regulation on relationship between classes.
40-50 minutes.
Anna Tereshkina β vocals. Artist, feminist activist, curator of the communal gallery Yegorka, and Shvemy sewing cooperative participant. Araik Vietinghoff β piano. Composer, multi instrumentalist, co-founder of Ikalto Micro Art Residence.
βALL DAYSβ
Anya Scherbyna. Neon Cuckoo Bee or Parasite-artist. Artistic research.
βIn 1909, the entomologist Carlo Emery noted that social parasites among insects tend to be parasites of species or genera to which they are closely related. For instance, the many lineages of cuckoo bees lay their eggs in the nest cells of other bees in the same family. Females of cuckoo bees do not make their own nests. Also, they lack the special long hairs which collect pollen.β
Neon Cuckoo Bee or Parasite-artist is an artistic practice-research of methods of adaptation in the art world through the concept of parasitism. Overcoming shame and fear, to penetrate into otherβs statements not to level, but to use their resources for the sake of survival in the art field.
Lazy artist, artisan, lives and works in Kyiv.
Vera Kavaleuskaya, Sasha Smirnova. Golden Apple Ltd.
You are young and beautiful, and all doors are open for you. Are you able enough to start controlling the time entirely?
Safely invest in your eternal youthhood with Golden Apple Ltd.. Donβt miss your chance, we are officially open from June 25 till July 3 on www.goldenapple.today
Golden Apple Ltd. is a speculative startup existing in the near future, where ageing becomes no longer an option under constraint of neoliberal ideology.
Contemporary art curator and journalist Vera Kavaleuskaya, researcher and visual artist Sasha Smirnova are working collaboratively to pose questions about intricate human relationships with novel technologies in the near future and now.
Maria Sarycheva, Elena Ischenko and Blue 321. Secret car.
Could Car possible became your close relative? Could Batmobile expect to have something bigger with Batman? Could you stop to think about Car only in terms of transport? Could you legally marry her, or she will always remain your lover? Could you acknowledge her labour?
Secret Car is an object in digital reality with a purpose to challenge gamers to research new territories and to go beyond gameβs plot. But what if Secret Car is the one with whom you spend most of your free time? What if Secret Car is an intimacy territory? What if Secret Car is a shelter, long waited rest? During Work Hard! Play Hard! Maria Sarycheva and Elena Ischenko is going to practice not included collectivity. We are with you but we are not here. We communicate with each of you. We probably know more than you although we are not participating fully. We are going to kidnap the one who tired with a purpose to learn about new recreation locations, to find lost leisure and together with Blue 321 to have some rest beyond scenarios of Work Hard! Play Hard!
Maria Sarycheva is an independent curator working on territory of Russia mainly; co-editor of an independent online magazine aroundart.org.
Elena Ischenko is a curator at Typography Krasnodar Center of Contemporary Art; co-editor of an independent online magazine aroundart.org.
Blue 321 is a cultural worker trying to establish connections between different cultural fields of Russia. In 2017 she developed communication between artists from Murmansk, Voronezh, Rostov and Krasnodar.
βEntrance to all events is freeβ
βThe schedule may changeβ
Working group:
Aleksei Borisionok curates a series of exhibitions and events related to the concept of "event" and writes for the magazine Kalektar.
eeefff (Nicolay Spesivtsev and Dzina Zhuk) works with emotional effects of new economic regimes, driven by computation. The group combines artistic practices with research, sociality of computer science, science-fiction of critically understood startup culture, software and hardware hacks.
Olia Sosnovskaya works with text, performative and visual practices; develops interest in the problematics of the celebration, pleasure and political.