Melting point
"Melting Point" was the last exhibition in the place where the Experimental Field project originated. The field itself was planned to be built up for a highway, everything was disappearing and melting before our very eyes. We decided to capture this moment in the exhibition. All participants today are not in Russia, and this makes this exhibition look even stranger. Here is a short review from Vlad Chizhenkov, a guest of the exhibition: The announced "hidden algorithm of mixing man-made and natural fabrics" was accompanied by a pleasant sitting on an earthen furrow. I managed to see the end of Sergei Prokofiev's exhausting performance - for several hours Sergei, dressed in a fashionable yellow chemical protection suit, circled the field on a bicycle, managed to see the general exhibition and its disappearance by dismantling, but did not manage to see how Dania Zinchenko releases a carp bought in a grocery store into the local pond. The carp has already disappeared in the dark waters, and this is clearly not the worst thing that could have happened to it. The exposition, as expected, somewhat overlapped with small anthropogenic artifacts, and it was not always possible to understand what was what, and what was just like that, but the participants of the event were clearly not against it, understanding that everything is not simple and that everything will disappear to a point, possibly managing to change. I was especially pleased with the fur feeder for birds, instantly recognized by the team as a work of the local Alina Glazun.

Participants:

Yulia Abzaltdinova

Maxim Whippet

Daniil Zinchenko

Nastya Kuzmina

Ikuru Kuwajima

Grisha Mumrikov

Sergei Prokofiev

Grigory Selksky

Andrey Rejet

Yulia Abzaltdinova
Red Thread
Photographs

In the digital age, a printed photograph is already a rarity or a burden. The printed photograph is not ubiquitous in the life of an ordinary modern person. Today, tearing a photograph is no longer a mass action and now it is associated with stronger emotional motives, for example: a relationship that has ended - tear or burn the photos with him/her; or bring order to your life by bringing order to your things (and here the printed photograph is perceived as a thing, not as a carrier of information, memory). Now, tearing up and throwing away a photograph is more of a psychological act than a utilitarian operation in the life of a modern person. What will be the reason for getting rid of photographs in each individual story? Will it be banal or unique in the age of the virtual world? What new sensations or lack thereof accompany everyone today when they want to tear up and throw away a photograph? What will that printed photograph be, what is depicted on it and how? Is it possible to move a photograph "for disposal" from a non-artistic space to an artistic one? To find in the act of disposing of a photograph, as a thing, properties of an artistic context?
Maxim Whippet
"The monkey screams"
Installation

Nastya Kuzmina
"MoraDora"
obects, gypsum

Daniil Zinchenko
"Carp walking"
performance

The carp was bought in a store to be released back into its natural habitat. A second chance.
Ikuru Kuwajima
"Polar offshore"
video

Iceland, one of the richest and most expensive countries in the world, long remained a poor rural country, but its economy rose sharply in the 90s, thanks to the development of the financial sector. And then dozens of offices of global audit firms opened on this small island with a population of 30,000 people. As a result, Iceland, which has no natural resources, has become one of the world's leading offshore centers, economically overtaking other European countries. However, the country's special tax regimes have attracted corrupt officials from all over the world, and the country has become one of the main sources of money laundering, like Switzerland, Hong Kong, Singapore, Panama, Liechtenstein and the Virgin Islands. After the 2008 crisis, the Icelandic government is trying to strictly regulate money transfers related to criminals and corrupt officials, and is investing more resources in the development of tourism, so that the country does not depend too much on the financial sector. But still, the Icelanders have not managed to completely stop the flow of unknown dirty money, which periodically comes and disappears through Icelandic financial institutions. The video illustrates such a less positive side of Iceland, which otherwise might seem completely innocent and clean.
Grisha Mumrikov
"Melting point"
object

I used to pick raspberries there and bring them home, but then everything started changing and continues to change to this day. It's a fixation of a point that symbolizes the border between how it was and how it's becoming. At some point, there will be a moment when everything boils away and nothing remains.
Andrey Rejet
"STOP Button" (N3)
Object 11×1×11cm

In the forest, on a tree, I came across a STOP button. It is clearly not connected to any technical device or unit. So what does this button refer to and what is it supposed to stop or cease?
Sergei Prokofiev
SOME MAN ON A BICYCLE
Bicycle, protective overalls, full-face respirator mask
2,5 hours performance
I'm allergic to the spring birch pollen. Some man told me a story about his friend, just as allergic as me. In the midst of flowering, he decided to go out of town to ride a bike. Somewhere in the woods, he started swelling. There was no one nearby and he died. On April 21, 2019, I also decided to take a ride.
Grigory Selsky
"riddle"
object
Andrey Rejet
"Melting"
Reclaimed found object, 36 x 36 cm, tin sheet, craft, enamel, acrylic.