[spectre] Artist as a Part of an Attacking Multitude

[Geert Lovink]

> Subject: Artist as a Part of an Attacking Multitude
>
> Artist as a Part of an Attacking Multitude
> project by Olga Kisseleva
>
> 2nde Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art
> 1 march 2007 — 1 april 2007
>
> The work of Olga Kisseleva (video installations, sculpture, 
> photography, and also sociological dealings) is based on questions of 
> contemporary thought which she subsequently discloses in her projects. 
> In her project for the 2nd Moscow Biennale, Olga Kisseleva, touches on 
> the particular theme of the artist as a fighter, seeing the exhibition 
> as a means of having an effect on society. In this project, thought up 
> in Paris at the time of the agitations of 2005-6, a group of young 
> researchers, united two worlds that do not intersect. The viewer 
> wanders around a labyrinth with arrows, reminding one of the layout of 
> videogames with their various zones, levels and scenarios of the 
> possible development of events. Finding himself amongst constantly 
> changing plots, simultaneously concerning the conscience and the 
> subconscious, the viewer is taken hostage by information contained in 
> visual and audio forms.
>
> National Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
>
> project supported by
> 	• 	the Embassy of France in the Russian Federation
> the Centre Culturel Français, Moscow