Lecture of Irina Sirotkina. The art of movement:
from the avant-garde to the present day

October 26 at 19:00, the Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography invites Irina Sirotkina to the lecture “The Art of Movement: from the avant-garde to the present day” as part of the educational program for the exhibitions “Mikhail Baryshnikov. Body Metaphysics ”by Robert Whitman and“ In Motion ”by Valentin Khukhlaev.

About the lecture:

Photography often tends to two opposite goals: stop the moment and convey dynamics. A lot of thought and how much the avant-garde artists experimented with how to fix the movement. Vasily Kandinsky came up with the idea of studying “abstract movement,” and the science of movement — cinema kinemology — was developed at the Academy of Art Sciences that he founded. In the 1920s, this academy hosted a series of exhibitions under the general title “The Art of Movement”. In the pictures shown there, dancers and athletes are adjacent to cars and airplanes. The techniques that avant-garde artists and photographers managed to find in order to convey movement will be discussed in a lecture by Irina Sirotkina, historian of motor culture.

About the lecturer:

Irina Sirotkina - candidate of psychological sciences, PhD, author of the books “Free movement and plastic dance in Russia” (2012), “The sixth sense of the avant-garde: dance, movement and kinesthesia in the life of poets and artists” (2014, 2016), co-editor of the collections “Free verse and free dance: movement of embodied meaning ”(2011) and“ Living word: logo – voice – movement – gesture ”(2015), teacher of the author’s course“ Dance and motor culture in history and the present ”at the Higher School of Economics, practicing dancer.