Exhibition Project "Ordinary War" Automatic translate
22 Июня
Поволжское отделение Российской академии художеств
Лаврушинский пер., д. 15
Москва
On June 22 at 16:00 a presentation / announcement of the “Ordinary War” project will be held in the TLC (Lavrushensky, 15). A detailed show - in the autumn in the halls of the Usolsky Museum of the "Stroganov’s Chamber".
June, 22. The faces of people frozen at the radios. Black and white crosses of airplanes - air raid, newsreel frames. Ordinary warfare is not what boys play in the courtyards, not the pathos of war films and parades: warfare is the invasion of other everyday rhetoric, words and plots that change the course of our everyday life, transform our everyday reality into something completely different, something else - to complete unrecognizable.
In this rhetoric, human life is discounted to the figures from the reports of the deceased, to the official language of the funeral, reduced to the language of the poster, the slogan, to the estrangedness of the word and gesture from the reality that they transmit.
The Ordinary War project is an attempt by contemporary artists of different generations working in different genres of contemporary art to identify for themselves and the viewer the point at which the language of “ordinary life” is transformed into the language of “ordinary war”.
“War is just an outward expression of our internal state, our daily actions in an enlarged form. She is more spectacular, more bloody, more destructive, but she is the total result of our personal activities. Therefore, both you and I are responsible for the war, and what can we do to prevent it? Obviously, the continuously approaching war cannot be stopped by you and me, because it is already in action; it is already happening, although at present it is mainly at the psychological level. Since it is already happening, it cannot be stopped - there are too many contradictions, they are too great, and they have already appeared. But you and I, seeing that the house is engulfed in flames, can understand the cause of this fire, we can get away from it and build in a new place from various materials that do not ignite, that do not cause new wars. That is all we can do. You and I can see what causes wars, and if we are interested in stopping them, we begin to change ourselves, because we are the cause of wars, ” wrote the Indian philosopher Jeddu Krishnamurti in the 20th century.
Dedicated to the tragedy of World War II (primarily to the people who make our life possible), the project does not boil down to representing the events of 1941-1945: reading the latter as archetypal for modern history and modern man, he explores them in the context of personal memory of “those who is back ”and in the situation of the present events.
Today, the media and cinema of different countries, the war is again interpreted as a fascinating sight, a game of steel muscles and freedom, painted in the heroic colors of a flag. And therefore, today it is necessary to recall those everyday sacrifices and destruction that lie behind the reports of defeats and victories. To recall the war as a madness embracing peoples, to recognize the language of this madness in itself, thereby depriving it of pathos - a claim to the right to normal existence alongside other languages.
And this has nothing to do with pacifism, it is about the only justified war - the war for life, which takes place daily in the heart and life of each of us.
Participants: Sergey Malyutin, Tatyana Karamysheva, Daria Zhmyleva, Olga Kroytor, Alexey Dyakov, Tatyana Krol, Klara Golitsina, Julia Winter, Anton Chumak, Alexey Ignatov, Tatyana Kartoshkina, Erken Kagarov, Omar Godines, Alexandra Ostrovskaya, Elena Grigoryevna Bolotskikh, etc.
Curators: Alla Nadezhdina and Sergey Malyutin.