SLOWDOWN
Video program of the Baltic Branch The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts / Baltic Branch NCCA (Kaliningrad, Russia) / Day 2
Adam W. Brown (in collaboration with Robert Root-Bernstein). Origins of Life. 2010–2016. Mixed media reenactment. 8’24”. With special thanks to Maxine Davis, Thomas Palazzolo, Thomas Hudson, Barry Tigner and Scott Bankroff; Dmitry ::vtol:: Morozov. Guest. 2019. Multimedia installation. 6’27”. The project was created with the funds of the NOVA ART Grant (St. Petersburg) and with the support of the Zarya Center for Contemporary Art (Vladivostok); Saša Spačal, Mirjan Švagelj, Anil Podgornik. Myconnect. 2013. Multimedia installation. A symbiotic interspecies connector. Production: Kapelica Gallery. Supported by the Ministry of Culture of Republic of Slovenia, Municipality of Ljubljana – Department for Culture and ŠOU – Ljubljana; Yury Vasiliev. The Waiting Room. 2012. Video installation. Sound track: Alex Hamburger. 17’44”. Supported by the Russian Ministry of Culture and Nordic Culture Point; Florian Tuercke. URBAN AUDIO. 2013. Single-channel video. 5’05”; Alexander Vozhich. Human Reducer Drive. 2020. Single-channel video. 5’29”; Natalia Tikhonova. Sometimes Behave So Strangely. 2019. Single-channel video. 7’00”. Courtesy of the artists
The Baltic Branch The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts / Baltic Branch National Center for Contemporary Arts (Kaliningrad, Russia) presents the video program “Slowdown”. This video program, compiled by curators and researchers of the Baltic Branch (hereinafter referred to as the branch), includes works by Russian and foreign artists united by the themes of rethinking the concepts of time and solitude, searching for new ways of experiencing everyday life and space, as well as exploring invisible strings that connect people and technology.
The program consists of two parts that are broadcasted on August, 26 and 29, at 7 PM Moscow time (works remain available for 24 hours from the start of the broadcast). The video program “Slowdown” is composed in such a way that each of the curators represents the direction in which they are engaged in the artistic activities of the branch.
In the second day of the program, we will propose to dive into the study of such an art direction as “deep media art” that is at the interface with philosophy and science and to which Dmitry Bulatov, artist, art theorist, curator, specialist of the Art Programs and Creative Projects Department of the branch devoted his part of the program and to watch three video works: “Origins of Life” (2010–2016) by Adam W. Brown (in collaboration with Robert Root-Bernstein) (USA), “Guest” (2019) by Dmitry :: vtol :: Morozov (Russia) and “Myconnect” (2013) by Saša Spačal, Mirjan Švagelj, Anil Podgornik (Slovenia).
Irina Chesnokova, curator, specialist of the Art Programs and Creative Projects Department of the branch, will show how a public art installation becomes a metaphor of human loneliness. Irina will present a contextual video installation “Waiting room” (2012) by Yury Vasiliev (Russia) that was specially created and inscribed in the space of the real waiting room of the main train station of Kaliningrad.
Danil Akimov, artist, curator, specialist of the Art Programs and Creative Projects Department of the branch, will invite you to see or rather listen to the methods of acoustic reading of the urban environment by watching “URBAN AUDIO” (2013) by Florian Tuercke (Germany), who has been creating for fourteen years a series of instruments that transform ambient noise into musical sound.
As part of the direction to support and develop local young contemporary art, Nadezhda Blazhko, curator, leading specialist of the Art Programs and Creative Projects Department of the branch, will demonstrate the works by young artists: “Human Reducer Driver” (2020) by Alexander Vozhich (Russia) and “Sometimes Behave So Strangely” (2019) by Natalia Tikhonova (Russia) dedicated to slowing down and rethinking of the space.
