Screening in Helsinki

1. Alena Krasnoshtanova - UNTITLED (2006) 00'52'', silent 2. Kostya Ushakov - WOKINUGEINSTIMAGIC (2007) 06'40'', sound 3. Yana Klichuk - Untitled (2007) 01'52'', sound 4. Zhenya Mukhina - Charles dances with Jane 02'04'', sound 5. Alina Belishkina - Road Dreaming 02'14'', sound

1. Window is complicated object: it can be described by different functions. For example, we can define window as the frontier between two spaces. But its main rule is to be transparent. It provides sound and visual and even direct transmission of objects. Then, nowadays, in context of media we can interpret window as a monitor to private life. And vice versa transmission monitor as window. So, window is a hole which allows the viewer to see what is behind the wall. And it’s not necessarily a wall; it’s something that makes our powerful visual ability fruitless. The other thing that came out is that the window is a place, which activates our visual ability on the absolutely blind surface. 2. All these stuff I found in video works in the screening. Window is not their direct subject, but I think they are much about it. They research, work on or simply operate the nature of window. Except first one, - I chose this short photofilm to point out the subject. In this piece window doesn’t “work”, it just exists. Zhenya’s piece is a work where you can not see window, it doesn’t exist in the space of video but we see it works somewhere behind like a ghost. Or maybe it is simply a monitor or camera. The person in Kostya’s work holds the window. He applies the gadget to “neutral” space and the space becomes “marked”. This lens finds the place where it becomes a window. In my work window actively interferes image, it literally and in a figurative sense is flickering in space and time. Alina’s work has nothing to do with window except it was shot through it, and window has totally disappeared.

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Krasnoshtanova

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