"Objects' satisfiers" is a performative exhibition-laboratory that includes elements of art, post-dance, and sound research. The exhibition, which was dedicated to sensual manifestations and relationships between (non-)living objects, was realized as a four-act action, in which each laboratory (Art, Post-Dance, Sound) presented the results of their research in the form of an event - a total installation, performance, or concert. It ended with a large-scale "Manifesto of non-living", a synthetic action in which musicians and sound engineers demonstrated an algorithmic work that used the sounds of plants, stones, and liquids, with a soloist - a money tree.

Each Laboratory, with its own focus, worked both independently and in collaboration with other Laboratories. Dmitry Gilen, the Art Laboratory's curator, created a total space of relationships in which the objects were metal podiums, synthetic leather, an ancient Greek spell, Stephen Hawking, a spellcaster, and a rhizomatic structure of human bodies split in time. Yuliana Avramenko, curator of the Post-Dance laboratory, and dance artist Daria Dosekina moved thinking themselves as people, plants, and animals in the Greenhouse space, along to the pre-recorded and overlapped videos of their practices. Dmitry Krylov, curator of the Sound Laboratory, and a team of musicians investigated how the information extracted from various objects could transform into sound.

During the whole duration of the project the space also worked as a green swap - everybody could bring a plant to the Greenhouse and take one home. Meanwhile a big bowl with a tea mushroom generated several liters of combucha, which was a guest drink during the closing event.

In recent decades, the focus of philosophical and artistic research has shifted away from anthropocentrism and toward other forms of life and relationships. We are accustomed to the fact that the natural and material worlds should be convenient for us; we design objects based on ergonomic principles - comfort for our body, sensations, and eyes; we subordinate nature to our tasks; and we change matter at the molecular level.

But consider this: what kinds of relationships and connections exist between objects outside of us? What needs do the inanimate have, and can they be identified in the non-human paradigm? We will realize that this is a massive zone of obscurity, an ecumene for our knowledge and experience, of which we will only be able to master a small portion.

This exhibition project proposes to investigate sensory needs and relationships between objects in a laboratory setting, to attempt to formulate pleasure principles for the inanimate, and to present a person not as a recipient of sensory experience, but as its agent, a giver. "Objects' satisfiers" shifts the focus from human needs to objects' world processes, which are explored through hermetic and intersecting laboratory practices.