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The Service of Time. On the nature of duration, coping and affect
Exhibition September 10, 2021 − January 30, 2022
Garage Museum of Contemporary Art holds an exhibition "The Service of Time. On the Nature of Duration, Overcoming and Affect".
The exhibition is dedicated to a segment of contemporary art that explores and thematizes the extension of time: both through the artist's body of work and through the process of creating and exhibiting art itself. The exhibition will feature works by more than 30 artists of different generations from South-East and Central Asia, the Caucasus, Eastern and Western Europe. Among the participants: Chingiz Aydarov, Nikita Alekseev, Yuri Albert, Vyacheslav Akhunov, Luchezar Boyadzhiev, Gino De Dominicis, Duan Inmei, On Kawara, Andre Kader, Ko Nguan Hau, Elena Kovylina, Vitaly Komar, Andrey Kuzkin, Tetsuya Noda, Hamlet Hovsepyan, Roman Opalka, Nam June Paik, Gennady Popescu, Yoshiko Shimada, Mihai Stanescu, Sun Fuzhun, Melati Suryodarmo, Teichin Xie, Vyacheslav-Yura Useinov, He Yunchang, Eugenijus Antanas Zukermanas, Zhou Bin, Fite Stolte, Alexander Yulikov.
The exhibition's English title - Spirit Labor - is borrowed from the film essay of the same name by British performance art historian and curator Adrian Heathfield, in which he analyzes a specific type of work of the artist, built on resistance to forces that surpass him, be it time or the elements of nature. The Russian title - Service of Time - reveals the theme of the exhibition from a slightly different perspective, drawing attention to the aspect of man's dramatic dependence on the only truly non-renewable resource - time. The focus on the length of time - viscous, problematic, non-historical - often results in works of art that are incredibly difficult to create, and even more difficult to "live", such as those that the artist creates gradually, over the course of a lifetime.
Prepared according to the materials of the website Garage Museum of Contemporary Art.
The exhibition is dedicated to a segment of contemporary art that explores and thematizes the extension of time: both through the artist's body of work and through the process of creating and exhibiting art itself. The exhibition will feature works by more than 30 artists of different generations from South-East and Central Asia, the Caucasus, Eastern and Western Europe. Among the participants: Chingiz Aydarov, Nikita Alekseev, Yuri Albert, Vyacheslav Akhunov, Luchezar Boyadzhiev, Gino De Dominicis, Duan Inmei, On Kawara, Andre Kader, Ko Nguan Hau, Elena Kovylina, Vitaly Komar, Andrey Kuzkin, Tetsuya Noda, Hamlet Hovsepyan, Roman Opalka, Nam June Paik, Gennady Popescu, Yoshiko Shimada, Mihai Stanescu, Sun Fuzhun, Melati Suryodarmo, Teichin Xie, Vyacheslav-Yura Useinov, He Yunchang, Eugenijus Antanas Zukermanas, Zhou Bin, Fite Stolte, Alexander Yulikov.
The exhibition's English title - Spirit Labor - is borrowed from the film essay of the same name by British performance art historian and curator Adrian Heathfield, in which he analyzes a specific type of work of the artist, built on resistance to forces that surpass him, be it time or the elements of nature. The Russian title - Service of Time - reveals the theme of the exhibition from a slightly different perspective, drawing attention to the aspect of man's dramatic dependence on the only truly non-renewable resource - time. The focus on the length of time - viscous, problematic, non-historical - often results in works of art that are incredibly difficult to create, and even more difficult to "live", such as those that the artist creates gradually, over the course of a lifetime.
Prepared according to the materials of the website Garage Museum of Contemporary Art.
