Art Digital 2006: The Borderline State
Project manager: Natalia Kosolapova
Curator: Antonio Geusa
event
site and dates
project description
In its essence the festival attempts to offer its viewers a throughout examination of that peculiar condition in which borders between the real and the imaginary lose their reason to exist. To adopt a vocabulary that is more consonant to the language of computers, the festival focuses on the flexible limits between reality and what can be labeled as “the virtual.” By its own nature, digital technology is a congenial portal to the Borderline State. Ultimately, the digital machine is capable of giving life to conditions that do not belong to an actual space and time, but live in some sort of in-between state.
What links together the participating artists’ efforts is that each of the works on display demands from the audience active participation, challenging their perceptive faculties. The viewers’ senses and mental processes are stimulated to such an extent that they can sense the Borderline State and its ever-changing interrelations existing between the conscious and the unconscious, awareness and unawareness, being awake and sleeping, the divine and the terrestrial.
To a certain extent, Russia itself appears to many as a Borderline State full of conditions (and contradictions) that make the real look like unreal – and vice versa. At the same time, the issue of the border – here intended as a geographic boundary – is a rather delicate one Accordingly, the festival is modeled according to a specific geographic pattern: artists from the Russia Federation are shown together with artists who live and work in countries that share with it a territorial border.
curator
artists
- Tatyana Antoshina
- Viktoriya Begalskaya
- Petr Belyi
- The Bluesoup
- Olga Bozhko
- Aristarkh Chernyshev and Aleksey Shulgin
- Ilya Chichkan
- Masha Chuykova
- Alexandra Dementieva
- Evgenie Emets
- Semyon Faibisovich
- Konstantin Khudyakov
- Nelya and Roman Korzhovs
- Anton Litvin
- Vladimir Logutov
- Vika Lomasko
- Mitro Group (Mikhail Nikitin and Tatiana Nikitina)
- Elena Nemkova
- Ilya Puzenkoff
- Anya Riaboshenko
- Masha Sha
- Stas Shuripa
- Avdei Ter-Oganyan
- David Ter-Oganyan
- Ilya Trushevskiy
- Vassily Tsereteli
- VolgaDrive
head of the project
producer
 A full-length article about the project will be in the catalogue of the 2nd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art which is
coming out on the 1st March.
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