FESTIVAL OF INFORMAL ARTISTIC UNIONS OF RUSSIA
Supported by the Committee of Culture of St. Petersburg
Museum of nonconformist art / Main hall
Communal Workshop
Share / Create / Interchange
July 23d – August 21st 2016
Opening on the 23d of July at 5 PM
Curated by Anastasia Patsey
Curator and art critic Nicolas Bourriaud in his book Relational Aesthetics (1998) writes that it is possible to define any artwork through the object of interaction and geometric point of communication among infinite correspondents and addressees. This text appears to be highly influential for the dynamics of contemporary art, which is understood as relational art nowadays. And as strategies and values in the art world are changing, the museum concept is changing as well: is transforms from a place of judgemental representation to a mediator of innovative ideas, a sphere of polylogue, a vivid interdisciplinary workshop.
Within the framework of the project «Communal Workshop» the MoNA invites informal art collectives to organise their studios in the space of the Main Hall, which will become a space for work, demonstration and symbolic presence. The existence within the temporary ecosystem provides the artists the opportunity to share (the physical and conceptual space), create (artworks and synthetic discourses) and interchange (via mediation of experience, knowledge and images).
The project «Communal Workshop» refers to two ideas relevant to the Museum of Nonconformist Art both in strategic and historical perspectives. On the one hand, it focuses on process-oriented artistic practices and the image of a modern museum in a changing cultural context. On the other hand, this ritual «squatting» and conceptual «inhabiting» of the museum space appeals to the history of the Pushkinskaya-10 art centre that started in 1989 as an artists’ squat in an abandoned house.
2,04 Gallery
Media laboratory
Ora et labora
July 23d – August 21st 2016
Opening on the 23d of July at 5:30 PM
St. Petersburg video artists, photographers, poets and composers will be working on creating synthetic art discourse, applying diverse media as tools.
