week 7
14.03-20.03
Artists, Projects
| Alisa Gorshenina "I work in various media from painting, graphics, textile sculptures to video art, animation and digital collages. In addition, I work with materials such as metal, wood, ceramics and constantly experiment with new ones." |
Project "Russian Foreign" (Russkoe Inorodnoe)
Interview with artist Alisa Gorshenina
"I like it when one object flows from one to another. First I make a textile object, then I draw it, then I shoot some video art or a photo with it.
I unravel the tangle of my nationality. We are molded from different pieces (nationalities) and it seems to me that this is Russia, very diverse."
I unravel the tangle of my nationality. We are molded from different pieces (nationalities) and it seems to me that this is Russia, very diverse."
Also Russia. Podcast
New rustic art | Alisa Gorshenina
Link to listen
"Often, when they talk about the “Russian style” in art, they mean Bilibin, kokoshniks, patterned ones - in general, everything that became fashionable and popular in the era of the national upsurge at the turn of the century. In Soviet times, this aesthetic was reworked and became a cliche that replaces the great diversity of Russian culture and the cultures of the peoples of Russia. All of it, as it were, collapses into the image of a Russian beauty in a kokoshnik. However, not all residents of the country identify themselves as carriers of kokoshniks. Moreover, kokoshniks, generally speaking, are also very different.
New rustic art | Alisa Gorshenina
Link to listen
"Often, when they talk about the “Russian style” in art, they mean Bilibin, kokoshniks, patterned ones - in general, everything that became fashionable and popular in the era of the national upsurge at the turn of the century. In Soviet times, this aesthetic was reworked and became a cliche that replaces the great diversity of Russian culture and the cultures of the peoples of Russia. All of it, as it were, collapses into the image of a Russian beauty in a kokoshnik. However, not all residents of the country identify themselves as carriers of kokoshniks. Moreover, kokoshniks, generally speaking, are also very different.
Ural artist Alice Hualice combines Ural folklore, ancient Egyptian gods, Slavic costumes, abandoned villages, Turkic motifs in her works, sews masks and costumes for the theater, photographs and dreams of a workshop in her native village of Yakshin. We talked to her about how the countryside treats contemporary art, whether the place where he lives influences the artist, and why Moscow artists are not “regional” if Moscow is also a Russian region."
The initial scheme of how to present the work at the exhibition
My ideal option is to work with the textile design (pattern design) of the wedding tradition in my interpretation. Combine this with animation like a showreel and textile pattern representation. The animation would reveal the history and symbolism of the pattern's use.
The minimal version is an animation and a printed pattern that would decorate the video area.
It is also possible to convey in some way through the pattern the emotions that are associated with my personal experience of marriage and the transition to my husband's family. Emotions as a background for animation.
Working with sound
Voice wedding rituals
A peculiar musical form is the chants of couples performed in the field during the cleanup and representing a solo beginning, in which the names of a guy and a girl are called, followed by a powerful choral chant-vocalization on the vowel “o” - on the so-called field voice.
Wedding songs:
A peculiar musical form is the chants of couples performed in the field during the cleanup and representing a solo beginning, in which the names of a guy and a girl are called, followed by a powerful choral chant-vocalization on the vowel “o” - on the so-called field voice.
Wedding songs: