Project "Pregnant Russia" Automatic translate
A number of voluntary public structures represent the “Pregnant Russia” project. This initiative seeks to promote works in the field of artistic creation, in which the search for meanings and forms adequate to the impending future of Russia is ongoing. The authors of the project proceed from the assumption that we have entered a phase when former ideologies and former linguistic or figurative forms stop working. There is a powerful change in reality; a new world wants a new word. Hence this plan. A more detailed description can be found below.
Material prepared by the project
Center for Russian Culture Studies
If the frequent comparisons of Russia with a woman are fair, then apparently the woman is not a fair-haired girl on a stone by the stream, but an eternally pregnant woman (or, if you like, mother, as they can fairly pull us down). To be in demolitions, to bear something new is a condition familiar to her. And although in recent years there has been no past agility, playfulness, but still - we suppose - the process of conception and birth has not stopped. If it bears, then it already bears. The character of the Russian soul, as before, is in swift modifications, presenting to the world a new and even unheard of - either to horror, or even to the admiration of the rest of the world.
And even though the state of pregnancy is the cause of constant, and even increasing intoxications… Otherwise, undead will be born, ghouls will climb… Little comfort in Russian battles. But the moments of clarity achieved in art may be more distinct.
And how to hear the next ripening of a new fruit today - a new meaning, idea and the next action? Where to look for his first glimpses? We believe that first of all, albeit unconsciously, this new effect in art, in the work of people endowed with the gift of hearing the inconspicuous - deaf tremors, signs of the times. Just as futurism and avant-garde promised in the last century the most decisive reforging of society, so today - if we have a future, then it should manifest itself in the works of contemporary artists. Not only the past - the future also leaves its mark on the present.
In order to identify these signs and signs, the Union of Public Organizations - the Center for the Study of Russian Culture (Ts. I. R. K.), the Internet project gallerix, the studio of Mikhail Korolev, the Club Platforma - are launching the Pregnant Russia project. Its essence is the selection and promotion of works in which, according to experts, the style of the coming time is read, the horizons of the future of Russian culture are revealed. It is supposed to present such works on art sites, organize public discussion around them, disclose in the media, organize auctions.
We do not seek to equip the project conditions with ideological, substantive or stylistic conditions, which themselves may turn out to be the product of an outdated era. Appeal to tradition can correspond to the Russian theme no more than a decisive break with it; but also a return to one’s own truth, to tradition, can be an ambiguous demand of the moment for a soul tired in wandering.
On August 14 in Moscow at the Vinzavod a public presentation of the project will be held, on which the first works will already be presented, disputes will take place, and live acquaintance with the artists will take place. To participate in the presentation and further work of the project, including through the presentation of your work, please contact…
If you are interested in this initiative, we suggest submitting photographs of the works that meet the idea of the project, in high resolution, a short text in any form, presenting the work’s data. Please indicate your readiness to personally attend events within the project.
Project organizers:
- Center for Russian Culture Studies
- Club "Platform"
- Gallerix Art Project
- Studio of Mikhail Korolev
Applications for participation are accepted here:
https://in.gallerix.ru/public/1260/proekt-beremennaya-rossiya/
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