Moscow Research Program
dal 2/10/2011 al 4/10/2011
Segnalato da
2/10/2011
Moscow Research Program
Ilya Kabakov's former studio, Moscow
An intense 3-day series of meetings with artists and intellectuals in the lead up to and as part of the preparations for dOCUMENTA (13)
An intense 3-day series of meetings with artists and intellectuals in Ilya Kabakov's former studio in Moscow in the lead up to and as part of the preparations for dOCUMENTA (13). Artistic Director Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, and the Member of Core Group, Raimundas Malasauskas, will engage in researching the practices of a number of artists and other intellectuals. Invited to participate are artists Viktor Alimpiev, Alexandra Galkina, Alina Gutkina, Alice Ioffe, Taus Makhacheva, Alexandra Paperno, Sergey Sapozhnikov, Alexandra Sukhareva, David Ter-Oganyan, Anya Titova, Arseniy Zhilyaev, and Alexei Penzin and Keti Chukhrov of the group Chto Delat. Other invitees include curator Daria Parkhomenko, geneticist and seeds expert Konstantin Sidoruk, solar and alternative energy specialist Alexander Gordienko, mathematician and neuroscientist Mikhail Burtsev, the psychologist and psychotherapist Natalya Rivkina, who employs hypnosis and trance techniques in her work, theremin expert and great grandson of Leo Theremin, Peter Theremin, and biologist and monkey language researcher Anna Smirnova. This event is scheduled to take place in the apartment which once hosted the studio of renowned Russian artist Ilya Kabakov from 1968 to 1988, after which time he left the city and emigrated to Long Island, New York, where he currently lives. The Studio is today owned by the Moscow Union of Artists, and maintained by Joseph Backstein, co-host of the 'Moscow Research Program.' Kabakov built the studio in the attic of the building located on Sretensky Boulevard, very near the centre of Moscow, just one kilometer from the Kremlin, in 1968. The studio was at the time one of the main meeting points for the Moscow underground art world up until 1988. Seminars, master classes and other activities were held regularly in the studio, and Kabakov often invited his friends and colleagues to present new projects - albums, paintings, installations, performances.