“Alternative Fridays”:
CSI “Dawn” presents the third season of the documentary cycle ART:
21

The Zarya Center for Contemporary Art, in collaboration with the Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, presents the third season of the documentary series “Art in the 21st Century” / ART: 21 of the American PBS channel. The screenings will be held at the Zarya Center for Contemporary Art (Prospekt 100 years of Vladivostok, 155, workshop 2) on January 10, 17, 24 and 31 at 20:00 as part of the Alternative Fridays project. Free admission.

The documentary cycle “Art in the 21st Century” / ART: 21 talks about how contemporary art finds answers to a variety of questions about the people and phenomena of our day. In each film of the cycle - four interviews of contemporary contemporary artists with a different history and approach to art. The series are named for keywords that characterize the work of the heroes of the interview and indicate the most important issues for them.

“Strength” - January 10, 20:00, free admission

This series is about power and repression in society. How to talk about violence, pressure and aggression in order to be heard, and how typical can a private story be told in the form of installation, painting or performance? For the Chinese artist Tsai Guo-Qiang, this is a symbolic game with traditional fireworks and lights for his country, a simple and uncontrollable element. Artist Leila Ali talks about discrimination and suppression through the infantile aesthetics of cartoons and naive drawings. Krzysztof Wodicko recalls the injuries of his post-war childhood and invades the city space with video-recorded monologues about violence in private life. In the sculpture and painting of Ida Applebrug, the same story is repeated about submission and power in the most everyday situations - in the relationship between children and parents or between a man and a woman.

“Memory” - January 17, 20:00, free admission

Memory as a source of someone else’s or one’s own pain, or as important knowledge that is passed down from generation to generation, is the theme of the series “Memory”. Susan Rotenberg’s painting with fuzzy colors always stores not only personal emotions from the past, but literally the remains of paints from past paintings. Mike Kelly comes up with textile and soft toy installations to remind himself and the public of childhood injuries. Photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto finds, stores and photographs the most ancient archaeological evidence of civilization and stones, removing them with the help of old photographic equipment. Glass sculptor Josiah McElani uses the memory and knowledge of traditional glass-blowing artisans to create glass installations that express modernity.

"Structures" - January 24, 20:00, admission is free

To use ready-made structures or to invent your own, based on creative logic, is what the heroes of the Structures series do art. Sculptor Matthew Richie is working on a long mural, which he is helped by a team of volunteers. He brings a repeating plot and patterns to his metal sculptures. African-American artist Fred Wilson collects objects from different eras and displays them in a certain order. Richard Tuttle’s structures are complex installations from household items, paintings and designs, which establish the relationship between the tangible and the invisible. The work of the photographer and artist Roni Horn is a huge number of drawings or photographs that are hardly perceptibly different from each other: Horn is most interested in repetitions in the movement of the world around her.

“Game” - January 31, 20:00, free admission

Playing as a creative method and returning to a childhood state of violent imagination and complete freedom is a frequent practice for contemporary artists. Jessica Stockholder, the creator of the installations, combines plastic household items of bright colors into unbanal compositions of useless artificial furniture. Ellen Gallagher, exploring her African roots, draws bright yellow facial features to models from vintage African American magazines. Venezuelan Arturo Herrera since childhood loves cartoons and collages of colored paper - in his works he combines Disney characters and thousands of clippings from magazines and children’s coloring. Video artist Oliver Herring works in the form of a children’s game and improvises with models and vibrant colors - this is how he creates an atmosphere of spontaneity and freedom for himself and for the audience.

The Alternative Fridays project started at the Zarya Center for Contemporary Art in early October and offers guests and residents of the city a look at the movie “On Contemporary Art from the First Person”.

Schedule subject to change. Before visiting, you can check the date of the session on the website zaryavladivostok.ru or by phone +7 (423) 231-71-00