"Pirates" at the VII International Shiryaevo Biennale of Contemporary Art

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In the Samara region, in the village Shiryaevo, on the Volga river started VII Shiryaevo International Biennale of Contemporary Art, to be held until August 30, 2011.

August 20th will be the central event of the Biennale - "nomadic show»

Biennale this year attracted more than 30 international participants: artists from Russia, Germany, Sweden, France and Kazakhstan.
Among the projects participating: «STRANGE-STRANGER-STRANGEST» (curators Hans-Michael Rupprehter, Stuttgart, Germany, Vladimir Logutov, Samara), "Pirates" (curated by Alexander Panov, Moscow), "The Clash of discourse" (curated by Martin Schibli, Kalmar , Sweden), "In the Twilight" (Group «Projet Diligence»: Valentine bitch and Emily Pecheda, France).
Details of the program and participants Biennale, as well as general press release on the website: www.shiryaevo-biennale.ru

Moscow Shiryaevo this year presents the project "Pirates». "Pirates" - part of the overall project Biennale "Foreigners: between Europe and Asia." Foreigners, like pirates, can take any space. On the other hand, they all go - home. Is not this a metaphor for any artist and modern art in general? Transnationally and it can "grab" someone else's space. Remember, it all began? When Marcel Duchamp exhibited a urinal is not done to them and signed it his name, that is "assigned" him.
Curator "Pirates" Alexander Panov, it appears that the modern artist - a pirate. He is everywhere a stranger, but, on the other hand, it is open to the whole world. Yet he acts as a kind of invader.
in the project "Pirates" will be attended by Sergei Shutov, Sergei Katran, Vladimir Potapov, Ivan Lungin, etc.

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Sergei Shutov submit 'Pirate Radio », reminiscent of the famous St. Petersburg" Pirate TV "(1989, 1992:..) Loudspeakers in red, set the village Shiryaevo, will be broadcast this radio. All the sound, of course, on the conscience of the author.
Sergei Katran present object "Torrentova tower." Visualization of virtual resource on the banks of the Volga. Four-meter square box, all sides are hung with garlands of DVD-ROM drive. The content of "shimmering cube" is full of information, which anyone can get by exchanging your hard disk proposed by the artist. "Torrentova Tower" - a reading of the Asian European virtual file hosting.

Vladimir Potapov in the project «Trade mark» propose to consider "piracy" as a trademark. The most common "pirate" patch on the eye is made of paper or thick fabric, and attached to the houses, barns, cars and other objects. Letters to the TM bandage will mean that the object is assigned to the property to another owner on the basis of a unique law of piracy.
On his performance "... She drowned," Ivan Lungin said: "In 1848, together with the First International, with flashing everywhere revolutions, the inventor of the cement and concrete building, and Joseph Lambot patentiruet its first reinforced concrete subject - boat . In the context of the "Pirates" I want to restore the semblance of the boat (in fact reapropriirovat this subject). Rowed on it a few dozen meters from the shore of the Volga, I am going to drown. "

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The curator of the Biennale Shiryaevo Nelia Korzhova notes that an impressive international team will produce a new artistic product on the spot , on the banks of the Volga. It is this " immersion" into the local cultural environment is seen as a method of creating irrelative or "ideal" medium for artistic expression. The basic idea of such an experiment - to give the artist a chance to " start working from scratch" , without the pressure of accumulated image and the technologies of the art market . This is an important difference " Shiryaevo Biennale" on the other . Where, as a rule , makes review of projects made ​​in the past two years. The entire project is conceived as a great creative laboratory " made ​​right here and now ."