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Collective Exhibition – Friday, March 15 to Friday, March 29

Joseph Bakstein Institute of Contemporary Arts, Moscou

Russia / 8'50
Galerie Dolet, Crous Clermont Auvergne, 25 rue Étienne Dolet, Clermont Ferrand

The Joseph Bakstein Institute of Contemporary Art was founded in 1992 by a group of curators and artists.
The main task of the Institute is to create optimal conditions for the professional development of young artists, curators and theorists working in the field of contemporary art.

Website : https://icamoscow.ru/en/about

Course presentation :
Teacher : Stas Shuripa

The program of the course “New Artistic Strategies” is focused on the formation of students’ deep and panoramic knowledge about current processes and trends in the global art scene, history, artistic and philosophical concepts important for modern artistic life.

VIDEO PROGRAM :

Optimism: Dancing at the Maypole | PollyT | 2023 | 3’17

Modernity is life in the world of ideas. This sounds very lofty until you realize that in most cases “idea” means the absence of something. The desire to possess an idea becomes almost sectarian, and the expectation of instant miracles in exchange for this desire takes people back to the ancestors of maypole dancing, where a promise sounds like an endless song, and at the end an ultimatum will be put forward – “Chudi!” (Make a miracle). Make a miracle, make a miracle right now. Prove yourself.
Prove it. Prove it. Prove it.
Chudi! (Make a miracle)
The idea of music is its absence, a hint of sound through subtitles, the idea of optimism is a demand for the best, and in the end there is nothing in the hands, only an eternal round dance in the confidence of the possession of absence.

BW film about a walrus and a bear_Katya Kosova

Black and White Film About a Walrus and a Bear | Katya Kosova | 2023 | 3’25

This work has references to childhood due to the main characters, a teddy bear and a circus walrus, which we see at the beginning of the video, and to eternity and the passage of time, when we see fire, a sky full of clouds, a train going into the distance and large flowers occupying almost the entire space of the image. At the same time, both worlds coexist simultaneously and in parallel with each other, telling about the multidimensionality of perception and memory.

In the eternal fire of time we will newer burn away_Katya Kosova

In the Eternal Fire of Time We Will Never Burn Away | Katya Kosova | 2023 | 2’08

Fire is both a symbol of divine energy and of a rebirth, referring us to the center of the Earth and of the World. Flowers symbolize life and beauty. Together they form a continuous song of time, paying homage to Nurture Gaia. Modern man sometimes forgets about the colossal importance of Nature, and the main purpose of this work is to remind him of this.

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