Works
Rebel Karaoke, 2011-2013, Interactive Video Installation
Rebel Karaoke is precisely what it says it is: a sing-and-shout-along machine for engaging in revolutionary songs and chants. All of them were recorded on a street near you… This audiovisual installation includes material from the latest political events and demonstrations … Continue reading
Art Activism
Graphic novel, 2013. Eight (double sided) A2 prints, and thirty-one A3 prints on the wall. Art Activism (in comics) is a graphic novel about activist art events in Russia since 2000 composed and illustrated by Alexey Iorsh. The English translation … Continue reading
The Chto Delat? Newspaper Archive
Installation of all covers of the newspaper of the Chto Delat? collective since its inception in 2003. Wall of the Re-reading Room, 2013. The 10th anniversary of the Chto Delat? Workgroup and its newspaper coincided with the idea of installing … Continue reading
Plan of Escape from the Donetsk Region
Graphic prints (B/W) 4,4 m x 4,0 m; series of printed photos (sizes variable); acrylic on wall; 3 helmets with head-lights. Roman Minin’s detailed graphic work and series of photos laments the disappearance of his native Donetsk mining culture. Entering … Continue reading
Re-Reading Room
Textual, discursive and educational formats form an important aspect of “re-aligned”, political or engaged art. Here is a space for the RE-READING of these materials. It also gives a room for the potential discussion and re-activation of the ideas they … Continue reading
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
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
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
