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IN TRANSITION RUSSIA 2008 Catalogue Concept The underground railway networks of Принципиальный элемент дизайна both Ekaterinburg and Moscow provide каталога — схемы метро Москвы и one of the essential design elements for Екатеринбурга, обозначающие места the catalogue by denoting the physical проведения проекта IN TRANSITION locations of In Transition.RU 2008. Россия 2008. These indicators of mass mobility are Это индикаторы всеобщей superimposed upon the faded world мобильности на исчезающей карте map representing the contemporary мира, отражающей современную disintegration and ephemerality of дезинтеграцию и эфемерность geographical boundaries as stable государственных границ как indicators of national security and стабильных маркеров национальной identity. безопасности и идентичности. The deliberate avoidance of separating Намеренно избегая разделения invited artists and call participants into участников на специально national representations, genres or приглашенных и выбранных specific curated events aims to embody по результатам конкурса, the reality of sharing, closeness and по национальной, гендерной co-operation beyond borders. принадлежности, а также обособления специальных выставочных проектов, курируемых отдельно, мы стремились к сотрудничеству, взаимопониманию и сопереживанию. Natalie Demetriou ndline design / www.ndline.eu Cyprus, 2008 4 5 IN TRANSITION RUSSIA 2008, is presented by NeMe, through the Independent Museum of Contemporary Art (IMCA) Cyprus and in collaboration with the National Centre for Contemporary Art (NCCA) Ekaterinburg and Moscow branches, Russian Federation. Venues: Ekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts (NCCA) Ekaterinburg 16 October 2008 - 16 November 2008 National Centre for Contemporary Art, (NCCA) Moscow 28 November 2008 - 22 December 2008 6 7 Contents Texts: Escape Program [RU] 062/183 Adam Buczek [PO/GB] 218/304 Pei-Chun Shih [TW] 274/334 Helene Black [CY] + Sheila Pinkel [US] Yevgeniy Fiks [RU/US] 066/184 Simon Chang [TW/CZ] 219/304 Guli Silberstein [IL] 275/334 In Transition 009 Ilya Gaponov [RU] 070/185 Elly Clarke [GB] 220/305 Linda Sim [SE/AT/AU] 276/335 George Alexander [AU] Viktoria Iliushkina [RU] 082/188 Vesna Črnivec [SI] 222/306 Kally Sozou [ZA/CY] 277/335 Tristes-Antipodes: a personal essay on the Anton Litvin [RU] 086/190 Caterina Davinio [IT] 223/307 Barbara Strum [CH] 278/336 complexities of culture and place as they Olga Lovcus [RU] 088/190 Natalie Demetriou [CY] 224/307 Waltrut Taenzler [DE] 279/337 shape individual identity 012 Diana Machulina [RU] 104/192 Michael Dettmer [DE/CY] 225/308 Nicole Tammelleo [US] 280/338 Alisa Prudnikova [RU] + Ksenia Fedorova [RU] Vladimir Nasedkin [RU] 108/192 Ted Efremoff [RU/US] 226/308 Lois Chichinoff Thadei [US] 281/338 From Oneself Towards Oneself: The Art of Kirill Preobrazhenskiy [RU] 118/195 Nils Emde + NICO31 [DE] 227/309 Dia Theodorou [CY] 282/339 Transition 019 Provmyza [RU] 121/195 Othman Fekraoui [MA] 228/310 Elina Theodotou [CY] 283/339 Lee Wells [US] Igor Sacharow-Ross [RU/DE] 134/197 Tijana Pakiċ-Feterman [CS/FR] 229/310 Marios Theophilides [CY] 284/339 SUPERMODERN - Nothing is what it Vladimir Seleznev [RU] 138/198 Tatiana Fiodorova [MD] 230/311 William Titley [GB] 285/340 seems…..the drift is very real 027 Masha Sha [RU/US] 140/199 Christopher M. Gauthiér [US] 231/312 Satoru Toma [JP/BE] 286/341 Where the dogs run [RU] 152/202 Alan Gignoux [FR/GB] 232/313 Anna-Marya Tompa [GB] 287/341 NeMe invited artists: Oscar Gil + Manuel Gil [US/GB] 233/314 Lien Truong [VN/US] 288/342 Curators - Helene Black, Sheila Pinkel DRIFT, a video program: Green Art Halikonlahti [FI] 235/315 Yiorgos Tsalamanis [GR/GB] 289/343 NeMe/NCCA Guest Curator - Lee Wells Diane Guyot [FR] 240/316 Nana Varveropoulou [GR/GB] 290/344 Helene Black [CY] 048/178 Myriam Hammani [DZ/FR] 241/316 Gabriele Voehringer [DE] 291/345 Yiannos Economou [CY] 060/182 Robert Adanto [US] 036/175 Bjørn Erik Haugen [NO] 242/317 Jasenka Vukelic [HR] 292/346 Adonis Florides [CY] 068/185 AES+F [RU] 038/176 Matan Israeli [IL] 244/317 Emma Wilcox [US] 293/346 Constantinos Hadjidimetri [CY/ES] 072/186 Carlos Amorales [MX] 042/177 Cecilia Järdemar [SE/GB] 246/318 Zhuang Wubin [SG] 294/347 Jeremy Hight [US] 074/186 Perry Bard [US] 046/178 Annetta Kapon [GR/US] 247/318 Guzman de Yarza Blanche [ES] 295/348 Srećko Horvat [HR] 080/187 Jeremy Blake [US] 050/179 MiHyun Kim [KR/US] 248/319 Katia Yezli [FR] 296/348 Deborah Kelly [AU] 083/188 Chris Borkowski [US] 054/180 Paul Klein [US] 249/320 Maria Lianou [CY/GR] 084/189 Cao Fei [CN] 064/183 Elvis Krstulovic [HR] 250/320 Conference 351 Peter Lyssiotis [CY/AU] 090/190 Stewart Home [GB] 080/187 Diana Larrea [ES] 251/321 Sponsors 354 Lefteris Olympios [CY/NL] 110/193 Christina McPhee [US] 106/192 Sally Grizzell Larson [US] 252/322 Colophon 355 Sheila Pinkel [US] 114/194 Perpetual Art Machine [US] 112/194 Yael Lepek [IL/MX] 254/323 Sonya Rapoport [US] 122/196 Second Front [International] 136/198 Natalia Lopez [CO/FR] 255/323 Giorgos Sisamos [CY/ES] 142/199 Mark Tribe [US] 148/201 Eleana Louka [CY/GB] 256/324 Christiana Solomou [CY] 144/200 O Zhang [CN] 168/204 Katerina Mistal [SE/CZ] 257/325 Sylvia de Swaan [US] 146/200 Diomides Nikitas [CY] 258/325 Lee Wells [US] 150/202 Open Call Participants: Sara Nuytemans [NL] 259/325 Shaun Wilson [AU] 154/203 Selection Committee: Helene Black, Yiannis Leah Oates [US] 260/326 Mehmet Yashin [CY/GB] 156/203 Colakides, Anastasia Lukina, Sheila Pinkel, Damir Očko [HR] 261/327 Zory (Farngis Shahrokhi) [IR/GB] 170/205 Alisa Prudnikova, Ksenia Federova Karina Pais [EC/US] 262/327 Tonia Papaiacovou [CY] 263/328 NCCA invited artists: Lanfranco Aceti [IT/GB] 209/299 Stefanos Pavlakis [GR/GB] 264/328 Curators - Alisa Prudnikova, Ksenia Fedorova Monira Al-Qadiri [KW/JP] 210/299 Sara Rahbar [IR/US] 265/329 Mohamad Ali [SY] 211/300 Aviva Rahmani [US] 266/330 33+1 [RU] 035/175 Anya Belyat-Giunta [RU/US/FR] 212/300 Vasile Rata [MD/RO] 268/331 Tatiana Akhmetgalieva [RU] 040/176 Shanon Benine [US] 213/301 Pavel Romaniko [RU/US] 269/331 Tatyana Badanina [RU] 044/177 Orit Ben-Shitrit + Harold Moss [IL/US] 214/302 Lizabeth Eva Rossof [US] 270/332 Oleg Blyablyas [RU] 052/180 Alena Boika [BY/CZ] 215/302 Krisztina Rozanich [HU] 271/332 Marina Chernikova [RU/NL] 056/181 Dineo Bopape [ZA] 216/302 Mark Salvatus [PH] 272/333 Critical Platform: What is to be done [RU] 058/182 Nisrine Boukhari [SY] 217/303 Dana Sederowsky [SE] 273/334 8 9 Helene Black [CY] + Sheila Pinkel [US] - project initiators In Transition In 1989, Carole Kismaric published the book The NeMe project takes place at the National “Forced Out: The Agony of The Refugee In Centre for Contemporary Art (NCCA) in Our Time,” which was also a monumental Russia, Ekaterinburg and Moscow branches. traveling exhibition. It was a most effective Concurrently, a three day international reflection on displaced persons, integrating conference, “In Transition: Cultural Identities images and text that gave testimony to the in the Age of Transnational and Transcultural aftermath of famine and war at that time. The Flux,” is being organized and hosted by the exhibition was composed of larger than life Ural State Gorky University and the Academy photographs of displaced people printed on of Contemporary Art, Ekaterinburg. In film so that not only was the viewer dwarfed addition, “Drift”, a video program, curated by by the images and text, but the transparent the invited New York based artist, curator and images produced haunting slightly moving cofounder of Perpetual Art Machine [PAM], shadows on the wall behind the hanging Lee Wells, will also feature a substantial film. The impact of the work was all the more international contribution to issues concerning palpable because of the inclusion of text by contemporary displacement. people who experienced a cataclysm. Again in 2007/08, NeMe placed an Since that book and exhibition were international open call for artworks on the produced, much has changed. At this historic internet which resulted in the inclusion of moment we are more aware of global changes many works reflecting the rhizomatic nature than any other time in history because of of different experiences relating to personal the acceleration of these changes as well displacement. This exhibition also features as communication systems that inform and time based as well as static works and connect us with peoples around the world. installations by internationally recognized artists and academics committed to This exhibition is the second “In Transition” articulating vital global issues. Altogether, “In exhibition and symposium. The first was Transition Russia 2008” includes the works of held in Limassol, Cyprus, during October over 125 artists representing 43 countries. 2006, organized by NeMe and presented by the Independent Museum of Contemporary It is only through dialogue and exchange that Art (IMCA). The curators and initiators of we can better understand one another. We the project, Helene Black and Sheila Pinkel hope that the work of artists from around the planned the exhibition so that in addition to world, reflecting on transitions of importance specific international artists who were invited to them - war, famine, environmental change, to participate, artists from all over the world economic change, geopolitical change, were invited via an open call on the internet, change in relationships with one another, to submit images and text which reflected on change in consciousness - combine to the realities of displacement. Artists from 37 create a vehicle for the collective voice to be countries participated in this exhibition. recorded, heard and become part of local and international dialogue in behalf of increased The project changes as it repeats, and in this tolerance and agency. case, “In Transition Russia 2008” includes a substantial representation from artists who live and work in the Russian Federation as well as from the surrounding region.