2020
Hall of Newest Reality of Samara Region
Victoria Underground
october-november 2020
october-november 2020
A big research initiated for this project questioned the notion of reality and presented it as a complex construct of overlaying narratives created by researchers, artists, folklorists, ufologists, etc. It focused on the narratives unfolding in local geography (Samara region) and brought together actors from various discilpines. The resulting exhibition grouped around several topics, concerning Theory, Phenomenas, Spaces, Others, Cults, (Un)Living.
One of the general challenges of this project was to shift the focus from contemporary art and place it in the bigger space of meanings and find common ground, no matter what the media, with other disciplines responsible for creating the complex picture of reality, be it meta- or mock-.
Thus, among the characters and topics of this project, were: travelling fires, mysterious mists, the undead, paleo-ufological gods, underwater treasures, portals, magnetic fields, aliens, mirages and time-space loops.
One of the general challenges of this project was to shift the focus from contemporary art and place it in the bigger space of meanings and find common ground, no matter what the media, with other disciplines responsible for creating the complex picture of reality, be it meta- or mock-.
Thus, among the characters and topics of this project, were: travelling fires, mysterious mists, the undead, paleo-ufological gods, underwater treasures, portals, magnetic fields, aliens, mirages and time-space loops.
HNRSR/ZNRSO
Curator: Anastasia Albokrinova
Assistant curator: Natalia Zakharova
Art consultants: Sergey Balandin, Violetta Grishina
Exhibition design: Anastasia Albokrinova
Graphic design: Dmitry Krylov, Anastasia Albokrinova
Artists:
Aleksander Filimonov, Andrey Syailev, Anastasia Albokrinova, Maksim Shabalin, Anonymous artist, art-group Laboratory, Vladimir Logutov, Vladimir Kozhanov, Darya Yemelianova, Dmitry Kadyntsev, Dominika Skutnik and Marek Frankovsky, Evgeny Bugaev, Evgeny Kaznin, Evgeny Sharinganov, the preticipants of Ice Biennale.
Contributors:
Igor Pavlovich, co-founder Avesta research group
Tatiana Makarova, head of Togliatti UFO comission
Anatoly Palto, author of «Mysterious Samara» web public
Peter Markeev, author of lukaonline.ru portal
Vera Zakrzhevskaya, founder of Museum of City Legends
Thanks:
NCCA Middle Volga Branch, Roman and Nelya Korzhovs for providing forks of Andrey Syailev, Dominika Skutnik and Marek Frankovsky.
Konstantin Zatsepin for providing an archive of "Laboratory" art group and Ice Biennial.
Ilya Samorukov for introducing the curator to the show "This unbelievable world" in Alabin Museum and important talks on the concept of the project.
Volunteer team of the project (full list will appear later).
Assistant curator: Natalia Zakharova
Art consultants: Sergey Balandin, Violetta Grishina
Exhibition design: Anastasia Albokrinova
Graphic design: Dmitry Krylov, Anastasia Albokrinova
Artists:
Aleksander Filimonov, Andrey Syailev, Anastasia Albokrinova, Maksim Shabalin, Anonymous artist, art-group Laboratory, Vladimir Logutov, Vladimir Kozhanov, Darya Yemelianova, Dmitry Kadyntsev, Dominika Skutnik and Marek Frankovsky, Evgeny Bugaev, Evgeny Kaznin, Evgeny Sharinganov, the preticipants of Ice Biennale.
Contributors:
Igor Pavlovich, co-founder Avesta research group
Tatiana Makarova, head of Togliatti UFO comission
Anatoly Palto, author of «Mysterious Samara» web public
Peter Markeev, author of lukaonline.ru portal
Vera Zakrzhevskaya, founder of Museum of City Legends
Thanks:
NCCA Middle Volga Branch, Roman and Nelya Korzhovs for providing forks of Andrey Syailev, Dominika Skutnik and Marek Frankovsky.
Konstantin Zatsepin for providing an archive of "Laboratory" art group and Ice Biennial.
Ilya Samorukov for introducing the curator to the show "This unbelievable world" in Alabin Museum and important talks on the concept of the project.
Volunteer team of the project (full list will appear later).
