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StartUp ГогольFest 2019 Warm touch

  • Фото автора: Mastasa
    Mastasa
  • 3 мая 2019 г.
  • 2 мин. чтения

Обновлено: 4 авг. 2020 г.

In this event, I was invited by the curator Victoria Burlaka to the position of coordinator. My responsibility was to prepare locations, logistics and accommodation for artists, providing artists with materials, control of installation work and dismantling, documentation and reporting.

Also, within the framework of this project, I have created an audio guide of the visual program.

The concept of the visual program:


Warm touch

Hands, hands reaching out to each other - there will be many of them in this project. Everything to man

it is necessary - it is a warm friendly touch and hope for the future. The touch is not burning, namely

the desired degree. Support of others - near and far. Overcoming your own children

and adult injuries, the main of which, unfortunately, is now the trauma of war, which is already quite deep

rooted in our consciousness. Trying not to think about it is not the way out. The way out is to give free rein

your pain and find those who feel the same way and support you. Trivial things - ability

to empathy and compassion - are the most important. But are they already so banal?

Rather, they are scarce - we often turn a blind eye to someone else's pain. Psychologists believe

distance from other people's problems as one of the protective mechanisms that help in the fight

for survival. But I'm tired of fighting and surviving and putting up with indifference. We live in

days of distancing and "correct" construction of frameworks and borders, so that, God forbid, no

to injure oneself or others - Schopenhauer's parable of a herd of porcupines who want

warm up and hurt each other, our everything. The principle of interaction is not to get too close

close, do not worry, hear, do not see, do not understand - in extreme conditions does not work ...

Group project of the School of Contemporary Art for the visual program of Gogolfest

Mariupol was formed not as a task on a given topic, but in the mode of testing pain

points in a broad sense - and each of the participants, and society as a whole. I wanted to get

a certain slice of the urgency we breathe here-and-now. He turned out to be enough

predictable - first, it was impossible to abstract from the historical crisis

moment. And, secondly, it is such difficult times that bring people together, bring out the problem of warmth

touch to the foreground. In addition, the practice of contemporary art is a kind of therapy for

overcoming alienation. Art connects torn threads of compassion, repairs the mutilated

mechanisms of human communication. Live touch, not comments on social media,

internal resonance in the circle of friends - like-minded people, viewers, colleagues, sympathizers - this is the most valuable

from what the artist gets…


curator Victoria Burlaka

coordinator Alona Chyzhenko (Mastasa)











Audio guide of the visual program



Visual program map and event schedule




 
 
 

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