Petr Kirusha
"Afterparty" (2012)
While creating his performance, the Russian artist Petr Kirusha wondered how it feels to have fun when you have no idea what awaits you tomorrow
Artists and curators share their own methods for taming time
While creating his performance, the Russian artist Petr Kirusha wondered how it feels to have fun when you have no idea what awaits you tomorrow
Curator, specialist of the Baltic Branch of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts (NCCA Kaliningrad) Alexandra Artamonova and Russian artist Alexandra Mitlyanskaya propose to slow down and to immerse in the contemplation of the life of those memorable things that fill the house of each of us.
In his video work, a Russian artist Sergey Katran investigates the possibilities of representation and perception of the most replicated parts of Michelangelo's “David” which is considered among the most famous statues in the world.
Russian artist Natalia Toropitsyna turns to the language of calligraphy and wonders what meaning our mind finds in numbers
Giuliana Cunéaz, an Italian media artist, tells a story of her peculiar neighbour whom she found in the library, and shares the way the uninvited guest helped her to finish an artwork
What is going to happen if the artist is listening to Johnny Cash during the isolation? An answer is in a video of an Italian sculptor Mimmo Paladino
Joe Kilroy, a contemporary poet, goes above the world’s gossip and tells about adventures of a parrot and a cat named Trotsky
Instructions for documentation of "magical" Russian landscapes by the main artist of commuter neighbourhoods Roman Mokrov
Vladislav and Ludmila Kirpichev, architects, designers, founders of studio school EDAS, offer a visual instruction on filling the emptiness and cultivating silence within oneself
Gino Rubert, a Spanish artist of Mexican origin, creates a metaphorical self-portrait in the mirrors and invites everyone to follow his advice to look into one’s inner world
Miralda, a multidisciplinary artist from Spain, offers his window as a tv-screen to connect with the outside watching empty trains passing by
American photographer Taj Forer shares his research of new logic of time exploring (un)changing nature
James Clar, an artist working with light and technologies, shares a 3D-copy of his room (the most attentive viewers can find an artist sleeping)
Portuguese video artist Vasco Araújo suggests all of the viewers remind themselves of eternal and external freedom more often
A literal immersion into the essence of things in a poetic video sketch of a Spanish artist Darío Urzay
A stop-motion broadcast from the studio of a mural artist Mina Hamada, where one can see the art come into being (this time on a canvas, not on a wall)
American artist Jane Hammond gives a tour of her quarantine wardrobe and invites to a journey to the other side of dreams
Dynamic video collage on one quarantine day from an American artist Michael Bevilacqua set to a track from The Chemical Brothers
An opportunity to look from over the shoulder of a German artist Karin Kneffel to see the birth of a painting (a simulator for riding on the swings as a gift)
Anthony Goicolea, an American artist and photographer of Cuban origin, invites everybody to see a silent film inspired by the impressions of isolation
Spanish painter Jorge Ferré suggests finding serenity in nature and re-filling juices of life
“Every Sound Is a Form of Time II” (2020)
How do the mountains sound like? And clouds? And veins in the human body? Searching for an answer, Cuban media artist Glenda León suggests turning to one’s own fantasy
Roger Ballen, South African artist and photographer, shares the way coming back to old skills can open up new possibilities
Famous Spanish artist and sculptor Jaume Plensa with an amiable message on overcoming borders from Barcelona
Bulgarian artist Luchezar Boyadjiev invites everyone to join him on his trip to Moscow from his childhood memories. What is the last time you used your memory as a time machine?
Photographer Sergei Nikolaev looks 30 years back in time and shares the NONsterile prints of his photographic junk. What is he going to find there? NONsterile, NONdigital print left junk after itself...
Alexandra Paperno shares a psychological portrait of her studio to English Baroque music
MASBEDO artistic duo sends their camera onto a trip around the studio and beyond. What would a camera tell about your interiors?
What it feels like to be in the middle of a sandstorm? What awaits us when the sand settles? What is the world around us going to be? Danish media artist Kirstine Roepstorff sets the viewer up for reflection on the future in her lyrical sketch
Swiss artist Gabriella Gerosa shares her pet hare's 'commandments' and shows the ways meanings can be born from silence
Russian photographer Zhenya Mironov creates Suprematist portraits bearing the seal of eternal internal self-isolation
How can wiggling ears save a life? Bulgarian artist Nedko Solakov offers an ironic response to the horror of the pandemic and trains non-obvious muscles of the body. And what parts of your body can you wiggle?
Guido van der Werve, media artist from the Netherlands known for his experiments with physical abilities, suggests coming down with him to the deepest ocean and coming up to the extreme heights (from home)
One of the most renowned media artists Dutch Marnix de Nijs offers to join him in a journey to the world of no dimensions
How do planets move? Elena Gubanova, artist from Saint Petersburg, finds an answer to that questions with an experiment conducted without leaving a couch. What discoveries can you make staying in a comfortable position?
A successful attempt of escaping into reality out of online from Ludmila Belova, artist from Saint Petersburg. Instruction for an escape is attached, apply after the end of self-isolation
Iconic French curator Jean-Hubert Martin creates a new world full of bright colours
An appealing offer from Andrei Blokhin and Egor Kuznetsov for those who have long wanted to break the interior with the works of art and organize a home exhibition
Cameraman? Baker? Waiter? Plumber? Israeli artist Shahar Marcus shares what video artists really do (an instruction on becoming a video artist is included)
Curator of the Cosmoscow Foundation for Contemporary Art Alexander Burenkov tells about contemporary artists and online-services offering new formats of solo and collective meditative practices
Shirin Neshat, Silver Lion of the Venice Film Festival winner, deprived of access to her studio, creates "sketches of future ideas" from everyday objects
Quarantine series from Andrei Silvestrov, founder of the International Kansk Video Festival (Kansk, Krasnoyarsk Territory)
French media artist and director Clément Cogitore suggests coming to the verge of self-isolation
The classic of minimalism Phill Niblock and media artist Katherine Liberovskaya share simple but useful advice for living in still times
Spanish media artist Cristina Lucas reflects on the base for the division of time, counting in dozens during one minute even parts of it, and shows the maximum amount of issues that our hands can count
Monica Studer and Christoph van den Berg, Swiss media artists and researchers of digital reality, plead to look at self-isolation from the point of view of digital devices
Artist Ulyana Podkorytova, keeper of magical thinking, shares her anti-virus spell and recommends everyone to take a break, as the best cure is a little bit of eccentricity
Artist-gatherer Vladimir Arkhipov suggests spending time in self-isolation with inspiration from handymen
The main traveller of the Russian art – artist and poet Alexander Ponomarev – on comprehension of art in solitude
Natalia Lyakh, artist from Saint Petersburg, suggests re-sounding the reality around and finding out the reason why soap sounds like the wind
Belgian director and artist Jan Fabre shares his catechism for not only quarantine times
Galina Myznikova and Sergey Provorov on insensibility to time
Enviable example of self-organising in isolation from artists and professors in the field of media art Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau
Artist Irina Nakhova creates art to a tune and advocates for taking care of one’s hands as if of an artist’s most delicate instrument
Intellectual conversation on the separation of the senses from media artist David Claerbout, a master of emerging into the meditative. Illustrated by the author
What does the liner hides? (Il)legal migrants? Happy vacationers? New virus carriers? Pioneer of Australian media art Derek Kreckler suggests having a closer look at a surrounding reality and creates his quarantine self-portrait
Argentinian artist Mariano Sardon whose works are based on years of scientific research suggests everyone conduct one’s own experiment with time
Master of interaction with the audience Semyon Alexandrovsky offers an instruction to become an artist through a series of simple steps
Norwegian artist Marianne Heske, expert in the field of social isolation, shares an example to look up to
Media artist Alexandra Dementieva on finding positive sides to self-isolation even if you are alone (or not?)
Master of reality transformation Dmitry Bulnygin encourages not to be afraid and throw art into the fire (but only the art specially designed for that)
Shi Zheng, one of the most prominent Chinese media artists, suggests to try on the routine of Brian Eno