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Aziopa
Curator: Sergei Khachaturov
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project description
The idea of the project is to present an image of contemporary ‘Asiope’(this term belongs to the historian, political writer and member of Russia’s Provisional Government, Pavel Milyukov) from a perspective of global strategies of modern civilisation. The vectors of barbarism and civilisation of the East and the West are quite different today than a century ago, but it is not as simple as that. Our unease about the meeting of the two cultures persists. Who has the truth and power behind them? Is a peaceful outcome possible? In the village of Nikola-Lenivets, Ugra Natural Preserve, Kaluga oblast there will be a scene of the protracted wait for the opening of hostilities by Russian and Tatar-Mongolian troops(1480), which ended not in a battle but in the withdrawal of the Great Horde troops, weakened by infighting and epidemics started during a freeze-up. The area of the dislocation of The Great Horde will be attacked by a descent of human-sized ‘made in china’ rabbits, metaphorically articulating the theme of the total expansion of new technologies, spreading everywhere, trying to fill every place, working and working and working like the hares in the battery commercial. The Eastern technogenic is confronted on the Russian bank by the ecologically clean snowmen, made by Nikolai Polissky’s artel. The Russian snowmen answer to the Asian industrial invasion with the forces of nature. To add tension and staginess to this meeting of hares and snowmen, architect Valeri Rivan visualises the emotional contact by means of multicoloured light threads- laser-beams which will stretch from the hares to the snowmen.
artists
- Nikolai Polissky
- Valeri Rivan
- Rostan Tavasiev
 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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