I'm available for business trips to other cities for projects lasting a month or longer.
Participants:
Alexander Korenkov
Andrey Rejet
Andrey Guryanov
Andrey Silvestrov
Anton Kuryshev
Anton Mashkov
Valery Nistratov
Vera Laponkina
Galina Bakinova
Grisha Mumrikov
Denis Shibanov
Dima Fedorov
Zhenya Sytyaev
Ira Tsykhanskaya
Inna Re
Katerina Venter
Ksenia Shibanova
Lada Uchaeva
Lina Dvoretskaya
Ludmila Belova
Ludmila Zinchenko
Masha Molokova
Maria Makos
Maya Papaya
Nastya Kuzmina
Nenad Markovich
Sergey Kozlovsky
Sergey Prokofiev
Sasha Groznaya
Sa Sha
Sasha Mumrikova
Yulia Mashkova
Katuns are traditional pastoral settlements where shepherds temporarily settle with their herds during summer pastures. This way of life is associated with nomadism, when people move from place to place in search of the best pastures for their livestock. In katuns, shepherds live temporarily, usually during the summer months, after which they can move to other places in search of new pastures.
This form of temporary habitation allows shepherds to use natural resources more efficiently, providing their animals with food and water. In addition, katuns contribute to social cohesion and solidarity among shepherds, as they unite for joint work and living.
Katuns are an important aspect of the nomadic lifestyle, which allows people to survive and thrive in conditions where access to pastures is limited and constant movement is required.
Residence Sasha Starikov & Alina Kotova.
Montenegro, 2024.
When silence falls, only light remains.
performance: Andrey Silvestrov
music: Andrey Guryanov
For 2 years we filmed our movements in space on camera without sound on 8 mm film. Being in different places, we actually constantly watched the news on our phones, which tore us from the space of cities and airports into the spaces of time. This time was captured by the film. Now I want to transfer this Time to stone and leave it in Sutomore forever.
Galina Bakinova
video, prints
When a person finds himself in a new place? And if in this place he has to live some time? a person inevitably begins to explore this place, trying to process it in his head, understand the landscape, lay daily routes, regardless of how long he plans to be there - a day, a month or a year. Understanding the world around him provides a person with a basic sense of security, in which he needs. I live in Montenegro for a little more than two years, but my understanding of this space is still fragmentary and chaotic. My process of integration is very slow. The unpredictability of how long I will be here does not allow this process to go faster. My digital works are based on digital scans of the space around me, they are a metaphor for my way of feeling a new space and trying to integrate myself into it. The aesthetics of the works is formed from fragmentary pictures, scanning errors and the absurdity of their combination. The works reflect my visual impressions and feelings from my temporary-permanent-new place of residence.
Sergey Prokofiev
Desert
This video was filmed in the Gareji Desert in Georgia in the spring of 2016, near the Azerbaijani border. I stayed for a few days in the village of Udabno, which translates from Georgian as "desert".
At that time, the locals told me that the village used to be Azerbaijani. But in the seventies of the last century, there was a shooting conflict between the authorities from Tbilisi and the locals. After that, all the Azerbaijanis were forcibly evicted, and people from the mountainous region of Svanetia were also forcibly resettled in their place. The Svans remembered their origin, some dreamed of one day returning back to the mountains.
Recently I learned a different version of events.
In the eighties, earthquakes occurred in the mountains of Svanetia, many houses were destroyed. The Soviet government of Georgia offered the victims to move to Udabno. The Azerbaijanis living in this village warmly welcomed the refugees and helped them settle down. It was heading towards the collapse of the Soviet Union. In Georgia, the desire for independence was growing, and with it, nationalistic sentiments. On this wave, the new settlers gradually squeezed out the old ones with the silent inaction of the authorities.
It was an Azerbaijani village. Now it is a Georgian village. A village that is called the Desert and stands in the middle of the desert.
Varigrass
Masha Molokova
installation
This project embodies the idea of sustainability and the rethinking of traditional notions of beauty and utility. Varigrass etymologically becomes a "different/diverse" understanding of interaction with various plants that we encounter along the way. What educational experience can we create by inviting as mentors those whom we considered necessary to eradicate? All reflections are based on the experience of forced emigration and observation of the biodiversity of the surrounding environment of Montenegro.
Lada Uchaeva
Object
We left not "to" a place, but "from" something Temporarily residing Hiding away With suitcases still unpacked
We took little with us But we did take From there Horror Between sleep and reality Sleep paralysis In broad daylight
Everyday presence
Ksenia Shibanova
A painting
Listen, do you have something timeless for me?
Yes, there is something eternal.
Where?
Here.
Untitled
Sergey Kozlovsky

8x10 inch ambrotype photographs on glass, with subsequent printing on photographic paper.
Ludmila Belova
Home
This video was inspired by the stories and diaries of astronauts who spent long periods of time on orbital stations and performed spacewalks.
Sasha Groznaya
Untitled
object


Having left our homes, scattered around the world, we found ourselves suspended in a space that became common to us for an unknown time. There are no old supports, no familiar inner circle, no beaten paths and no permanent address. There are only new unfamiliar people, casual encounters and a lot of temporary things: work, housing, habits, the landscape at dawn. But having united by a common pain, a common goal, common obstacles and common hopes, it turned out that it is possible to build a strong self-supporting structure on (for now) weak ties with people who were quite strangers until recently. To create a sense of home for the time that we have with each other.
Ira Tsykhanskaya
Glade
installation


A tablecloth as an image of unity and joy in communication with loved ones against the backdrop of a beautiful idealistic Montenegrin landscape. The greater outside world with its anxieties and pains does not exist. The magic tablecloth - has hung in the air - it is unstable, but it is like a bright spot in a stream of horror and fear.
Ludmila Zinchenko
Two windows
prints


This winter I was offered to participate in the workshop "Text in the City". In fact, this was not stipulated in my contract, so after unsuccessfully refusing, I began to prepare, as they say, "half-heartedly." The city I live in, Dijon, is small, touristy and pleasant, but the texts on the streets are all advertisements. Therefore, deciding not to go far, I turned to the texts near my house, I now live on a university campus.
My window on the left overlooks the football fields, where someone is constantly running, the French are running fans, and the window on the right overlooks the cemetery, where everyone is constantly lying. By the way, everything looks monotonous from the windows and at first I didn't understand where the university ended and the cemetery began. That's how it is in life, you never know (at least without resorting to magic, and that is a sin), where is your line that will one day separate the campus of eternal spring from the campus of death. And does it exist? - I pondered during walks, taking similar photos there and there, but fortunately, the workshop was later canceled.

Vera Laponkina

Memory Constructor

Textile printing

The exhibition presents a part of the project, printed specifically for the Experimental Field. In these times when circumstances of place and time are changing rapidly, it is especially difficult to imagine the near future and a place of residence even for a few months ahead. Memories of the past and fragments of family stories seem to be the only things that remain with us unchanged anywhere in the world. Memory Constructor is a project based on the combination of analog printing from archival family photos and photogram techniques. Roland Barthes wrote that photography is not a "copy" of the real, but an emanation of a past reality. Archival frames serve as a source of specific knowledge about the past, the history of families and relatives, and at the same time represent a kind of parallel world of pure emotions, where the missing knowledge about the depicted places and people is compensated by the viewer's imagination. Memory Constructor is a reflection on how photographs create a special space on the border between private and collective memory, the really existing past and our assumptions about it. The methods of photogram and analog photomontage allow us to capture special flickering clusters of time, different from the usual triad of "yesterday-today-tomorrow". The photos of the project function as a mechanism that helps to reassemble memories in an infinite number of variations, giving them new meanings and significance.

Valery Nistratov
Connection from the Connection Project
photo





Inna Re
Broken machine
video
Reality, like this broken machine, exists when we put it in the focus zone, we regret and reflect, spend sleepless nights in attempts to understand, until we finally shift the focus... in the space of imagination, images change meanings.
Andrey Rejet
Back to nature
Change is not necessarily a sign of life.





Paper, digital print, watercolors



Zhenya Sytyaev
#1
Graphics, objects.


Maria Makos
Collage
Shelter, field, marriage bed, katun" as a parallel to quantum field theory
Quark: A structureless elementary particle and a fundamental constituent of matter. They combine to form composite particles called hadrons, the most stable of which are protons and neutrons, the components of atomic nuclei. There are six types of quarks, known as flavors: up, down, strange, charm, bottom, and top. They possess a specific internal characteristic called color charge, or simply "color." A quark of each flavor can be red, green, or blue. A quark of one color can change into a quark of another color by emitting a colored gluon, a particle that is the carrier of the strong force.



Sa Sha
Objects
Lina Dvoretskaya
Grey Skin
video

Stones, fossils, their deposits and cracks are objects and imprints of processes and time. Processed, investigated and undiscovered. Mentally reviving them and imagining their dissimilarity, we will assume that they represent patience, balance and embodied faith in gravity. Anonymity, mass, density, texture - and suddenly we are already thinking about the stone - the most durable and fearless thing in the world. Having abandoned the idea of ​​animating stones and perceiving them as material, patience disappears, and a dual, but at the same time neutral characteristic remains - resistance and preservation almost unchanged in various conditions, which suggests that constancy and variability follow each other. Stones are independent, but impartial and selfless, they are beyond human temporality and dimension, but purposeful. Some of them crystallize, others granulate, others dissolve, others become brittle, others find themselves. And some of them know only mass.




Denis Shibanov
On the way
photos
Anton Kuryshev
On the diversity of sheep voices in Montenegro

Sound Installation
Yulia Mashkova
The shell
Sculpture
The sculpture's form references a shepherd's cloak - a burka, which serves as his "tent" in bad weather. Simultaneously clothing and a "mobile home", the burka provides shelter, protection and warmth wherever he may wander.
The object is made as up-cycling of cardboard packaging and is completely environment friendly. Thus, in its production, not a gram of plastic defiled the beautiful nature of Montenegro, to which the locals are so careless..


Sasha Mumrikova
Two suns
Object
Anton Mashkov
Home
photos
This is a series of landscape photographs, each taken from the same point, the terrace of a new temporary "home," but at different times of day and year.
The project is a visual exploration of the personal experience of forced emigration, where every place is temporary and transitional. It is a visual reflection on how the constant anticipation of the next step affects our ability to enjoy life here and now.
The landscapes are signed with the names of different cities around the world, which conveys a sense of continuous movement of thought in search of an ideal place to take root; emphasizes detachment from being in the present and a sense of the impossibility of finding stability in a new place.



Letters

Performance documentation

Grisha Mumrikov

Andrey Silvestrov

Alexander Korenkov

Katerina Venter


Letters received while wrongfully imprisoned in Russia in 2022 for a non-existent anti-war protest. The performance, recorded in Montenegro, is a reflection on the support received from strangers during a difficult time.

Ira Tsykhanskaya

The Possessed

Video

Dima Fedorov
5kg
Graphica
Grisha Mumrikov
Grounding
Sound instalation
The experience of lacking a sense of security cannot be resolved until a person realizes that they are not sufficiently grounded. They may believe they are safe because they earn money, have a family and a position in society. But if they are not grounded, they will suffer from a lack of inner sense of security, as long as it is based on the feeling of the body's contact with support, with the earth. Through this feeling of the earth under your feet, a basic model of a person's interaction with the world is built.
Maya Papaya, Nenad Markovich
Stravinsky is picking flowers
Audio-visual performance
This project was realized in the residence of Sasha Starikov and Alina Kotova. Montenegro.