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Flag Washing Machine (Carousel), 2013, Installation
Location: Kurant Gallery, Søndre Tollbodgate 17, 9008 Tromsø Opening on the 14th of September, [time] The installation has a form of rope way on roller skates with the flags of different countries. The flags are spinning in a circle, getting into … Continue reading
Translit
was founded in 2005, and is a literary-critical anthology, publishing outfit and community of poets, philosophers and humanities scholars, who bring forward various fields of confrontation in contemporary literary theory and the literary process.
Pussy Riot
Ekaterina Samutsevic had experience at the Moscow Power Engineering Institute and a defense enterprise behind her, when she decided to study art. Joining the actionist current in autumn 2011, she was a core co-founder of Pussy Riot. Of the three … Continue reading
Denis Limonov
is a Belarusian artist and activist of the Mogilev-based Lime Blossom group. “Drawing public attention to the problem of constitutional fascism in the republic,” he notoriously claimed responsibility for a terrorist act in Minsk, in an attempt to disrupt the … Continue reading
RE-ALIGNED ART. Programme of the Opening Days, Tromso 13-16 September
RE-ALIGNED ART PROGRAMME of the OPENING DAYS AND SYMPOSIUM Tromsø 13-16 September 2013 RE-ALIGNED ART at Tromsø Kunstforening runs from 13 September – 10 November 2013 Friday 13 September, 2013 20:00 Exhibition opening, RE-ALIGNED ART at Tromsø Kunstforening, Muségata 2 … Continue reading
Three Chairs
Installation of wooden high-chairs with plastic seats, seat belts and other accessories; windows of the TKF with materials, including clay putty, markers and wood. Three “thrones” facing three windows, tower high off the ground in this witty, pleasurable and practicle … Continue reading
Figure #1: Stability
In a mockery of “stability”, the prized acheivement of the Putin regime following the “wild 1990s”, the pyramid built by Tima Radya and his crew in this video is a precarious stack of heavy metal riot shields. Slightly angled on … Continue reading
Monument
2:30 min, video loop, 2012. Re-Reading Room. The documentary short-film Monument shows the hard labour of jackhammer-workers dismantling an enormous Soviet-era monument in Kharkiv, Ukraine. As part of the programme of modernizing public space for the EURO 2012 football championship, … Continue reading
RE-ALIGNED +MEDIAIMPACT at the Moscow Biennale 2013
Moscow’s leading platform for activist art and the RE-ALIGNED project are joining forces for the second time (the first was in Murmansk). These events in Moscow built on the RE-PUBLIC, in Helsinki, when the Finnish hip-hopper Paleface and the revolutionary … Continue reading
P.S.
Acrylic on 10 Sheets of plexiglass and wall, 2m x 3m x 5mm, 2013. (first realised in 2011) The penitential system of Russia has not changed significantly since Soviet times. There are more than 10 types of different penal institutions, … Continue reading
