The CK19 Cultural Centre presents the media art exhibition 'Screen Arts. Roll Call'. The exhibition features more than 15 works by 14 authors.
The exhibition was conceived and realized by the curators of the HSE School of Design (Moscow) in September 2022, and was later reinterpreted and prepared especially for Novosibirsk.
The first video art works in Russia appeared in the mid-1980s, combining the artistic method of conceptualism, analysis of film language and the deconstruction of television narratives. The first generation of video artists operated in the realm of new media with a good deal of irony, learning the techniques in a DIY “video on the knee” mode and inventing new languages and ways to rethink post‑Soviet culture. In the early 2000s, Russian video art, like its Western counterpart, underwent a “cinematic turn”, after which larger-scale and more technically complex video works began to appear, aimed at an aesthetic wow effect while still retaining a conceptual, intellectual core. Today, when all forms of screen arts — cinema, animation, video art, computer games, VR and so on — exist within a single visual field, and the language of new media can be considered established, it is interesting to look again at its evolution from the standpoint of the key questions raised forty years ago that remain relevant to us today.
The exhibition 'Screen Arts. Roll Call' is structured as a dialogue of three generations: pioneers of video art in Russia, young classics and students of the School of Design, who reveal new possibilities for screen arts. The basis for this conversation consists of three main themes: Body, Idea and Society. In the galleries you will see how images discovered by artists of the 1990s echo what concerns young artists today.
The 'Body' section of the exhibition presents an honest and frank image of the vulnerable, sometimes clumsy body striving to coincide with its own reflection and its 'owner'. ... The next theme is 'Society', the social space where our bodies connect in a common rhythm, becoming a single plastic whole resembling an antique relief or a group portrait—a photograph in which, after the passage of time, no one will be recognizable. And finally — 'Idea' — works that pose non-trivial questions to the viewer, to which each person will be interested in finding their own answer. They conclude the exhibition and at the same time return us to the conceptual roots of Russian video art.
Participants: Ksenia Annenko, Viktor Alimpiev, Elena Vlasova, Dmitry Gutov, Ekaterina Yegorova, Saveliy Osadchy, Anna Znamenskaya, Ekaterina Nazarova, Mikhail Somov, Yulia Starodubtseva, art group 'Blue Noses', art group 'Blue Soup', Elena Charobay (Popova), Sergey Shutov.
The exhibition runs until March 3, 2024.
Yulia Starodubtseva 'City of the Body', 2020.
Mikhail Somov 'Source of Experience and Empirical Data', 2021.
