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Dutenpula, Lviv, Ukraine
7.03. — 15.08.2017
"It didn't go that way"
I have not finished the text.
Now is 4. 21 AM, March 14, 10 days left before the opening.
It is unlikely that I will finish this text. But in the announcement, you need to specify something other than the date-name-surname of the author.
And here is already 4.26, here is a draft of this text, a set of sentences that can be read and understood in any order.
Of course, later, I will write a normal, serious text.
I wonder if I will be ashamed of this text later?
retrospective nature
A kind of black box that will remain after the disaster.
The desire to consider the place I occupy and its limits.
refusal of productivity and production and exposure
a minute, although not, better than 4 HOURS
A small yellow box. I tried to fit all the work I did or didn't do in 2016 into it.
I was interested in the principle by which the artist selects his works.
I have tried to describe the situation I am in.
I found that the language and the way I used to work was losing its power.
With the help of this work, I marked the situation in which I am and expressed my attitude towards it.
Everything else can be entered
Lack of community or even the possibility of community in a peripheral location
An attempt to construct this community.
The space of communication is limited by the museum of the history of the Jews of Odessa on the one hand and video recording, which is across the border of this space.
The task is to show possible forms of existence and creation of works in the local environment
In the end, the task of the exhibition is not to show the works, but only to create a reason for discussion.
The name "Community Exhibitions" was born from a doubt in the traditional way of showing works.
No one will see this work. Will there be a brave person who will dare to watch a 5-hour boring video in order to understand the problems of the local artistic community.
I do not claim to be new. You will be able to find everything you want in this work, from Godar to Igor Goffman from Kherson.
Refusal of productivity, production and exposure. Without radicalism
The desire to see the place occupied by the artist, and not to discover it.
You are nowhere, and you have no name.
A kind of black box that will remain after the disaster.
And which after the disaster to open to no one..
A black box is no longer a black box if there is no one to open it.
He is nothing.
Then let the box be yellow. A small Ukrposhta box.
In it, the author tried to fit all the works he did in 2016.
Or didn't.
1. "I was interested in the principle by which an artist selects his works.
2. I tried to describe the situation in which I am and my attitude towards such a situation.
3. I found that the language and the principle of work that I used before lost its power.
Just think for a moment.
Although no, four hours is better. Or five.
No one will see this work. Will there not be a brave person who will dare to watch five hours of a very boring video about the problems of the local art society.
A minute assumes the presence of a form. Five hours are saved from her. Just like from a fetish of goal setting.
Lack of community or even the possibility of community in a peripheral location.
In short, in the ass.
Bearing in mind that the ass Today is not localized: it has acquired a global scale.
The space of communication, limited by the kitchen of the museum of the history of the Jews of Odessa, on the one hand, and video-fixation, which is beyond the border of this space.
In the end, the task of the "Constant Exhibition" is not to show works, but to talk.
The artist does not claim novelty or originality. You can find anything you want in this work, from Godard or Beuys to Open group.
N.K.M.R
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