Orgy of things,
7th Moscow international biennale parallel program
20 September – 1 October 2017
curators Vladimir Logutov, Ilya Samorukov
Studio of V.Smirnov and K. Sorokin Foundation, Moscow
Orgy of things,
7th Moscow international biennale parallel program
20 September – 1 October 2017
Studio of V.Smirnov and K. Sorokin Foundation, Moscow
curators:
Vladimir Logutov, Ilya Samorukov
artists:
Anton Bundenko, Aleksander Verevkin, Ivan Gorshkov, Ilya Grishaev, Aleksandr Zaitsev, Oleg Zakharkin, Anastasya Kizilova, Petr Kirusha, Denis Koshkarev, Anna Rotaenko, Kirill Makarov, Roman Minaev, Alek Petuk, Igor Samolet, Andrey Syaylev, Igor Shuklin, Egor Fedorychev, Dmitry Fedorov, Vlad Yurashko
text by vladimir logutov:
Everywhere we are surrounded by things: goods, products, artefacts, objects. If capitalism turns a thing into a commodity, then art takes the thing from a utilitarian context to an aesthetic one. It shows us the thing as something which falls out of the regime of practical use. After Duchamp, any object can be considered in the contemporary art system. Exhibitions turn into collections of things and sometimes resemble supermarkets. Once there, the object is endowed with cultural value, but loses its "materiality".
Once produced, on the other hand, the object interacts with other objects. Unique and inherent connections emerge, between things, the number of which is constantly increasing. Things fill and overflow the world, mix, break, threaten. The bonds between things can be strengthened. "The orgy of things" is what we call the most intense connection between objects. Things find their own place, forming a network of relationships that can exclude the human producer of these things. Within this orgy of things, things are liberated from their original purpose, objects of art are liberated from their purpose of being art. We propose not just to 'return to things', but to liberate them from their pre-established relationships with people and other things and to make this liberation, this celebration of things, visible.
We would like there to be more viewer participation in the exhibition, more discussion of the artworks. So we make the viewer a participant. Right at the opening on September 19 we invite the viewers to become public interpreters of the "things" we present. The opening will be a "parade of interpretations". Things will speak through people. And this simple "speaking of a thing" will become a visible and audible contact with art objects, intensifying the connection between man and thing. The interpreters include representatives of the art community, journalists, critics, theatrical figures and simply interested people.
view of the exhibition
2017
view of the exhibition
2017
view of the exhibition
2017