Olga Kisseleva: Double Life

Instalatie video & workshop / video-installation and workshop

Marti/ Tuesday, 08.06.2010, 16h00
Prezentarea proiectului / intalnire cu participantii/ Project presentation/ meeting with the participants
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Miercuri/ Wednesday, 09.06.2010, 19h00
Vernisaj/ Opening
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www.kisseleva.org

Double Life este o instalatie video compusa (in varianta prezentata la MNAC) din trei dipticuri. Fiecare personaj isi imparte viata intre competentele/talentele reale si o activitate de subzistenta care nu are nicio legatura cu profesia lor. Aceste dipticuri arata cotidianul schizofrenic al personajelor care penduleaza intre necesitate si pasiune, intre mediul de lucru si cel personal: un student la istoria artei care lucreaza intr-un fast food, un artist casier la un supermarket, un ecologist militant constrans sa distribuie ziare gratuite. Marturiile lor reflecta amenintarea individului cu alienarea prin munca, din cauza obligatiei de a merge la o slujba pe care nu si-au dorit-o. Situatie fara iesire? E discrepanta atat de mare intre activitatea dorita si activitatea care ii constringe? Totusi, acesti oameni au momente in care reusesc sa se exprime, cum ar fi tanarul artist care foloseste bonurile de supermarket pentru scopurile sale artistice. Cum identifica societatea personajele din Double Life? Un artist care mai are o slujba in plus, sau un muncitor care face lucrari de arta in timpul liber? Ce valoare au aceste “activitati paralele”? Olga Kisseleva dezvaluie dificultatile de a fi intr-o asemenea pozitie, dar si potentialul creativ al situatiilor.

Olga Kisseleva va invita sa deveniti co-autori ai unui nou episod din Double Life care va fi realizat la Bucuresti. Fiecare nou episod al proiectului consta intr-un material documentar despre viata protagonistului si un demers artistic, conceput de co-autor. Doritorii sunt invitati sa participe la discutia/prezerea de marti 8 iunie, ora 16h00. Prezentarea va fi urmata de formarea unui grup artistic alcatuit din noii co-autori.

Proiectul Double Life este realizat in colaborare cu Laboratorul de Sociologie si Stiinte Sociale de la Universitatea Pantheon-Sorbonne.

Olga Kisseleva este director al programului Art&Science din cadrul Facultatii de Arte de la Universitea Pantheon-Sorbonne, Paris

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All individuals divide their lives into a professional activity performed in order to survive, and their true skills that are unrelated to work. The diptychs show the schizophrenic everyday lives of people swinging between necessity and passion, between a world of work and a domestic world: an art history student who works in a fast food restaurant, an artist on a supermarket check-out, a committed environmentalist who delivers freebies. Their lives provide concrete evidence of the threat of alienation at work because of the obligation to do a job that has not been freely chosen. No way out? Is there a cut off between what we’d like to do and what we have to do? Nonetheless, these people do manage odd moments of self-expression: witness the example of the young artist who uses the cash register bills for his own artistic purposes. How does society identify the characters in ma double vie? An artist who does a job or a worker who creates works of art on the side? What value is given to such ‘parallel’ activities? Olga Kisseleva is up front in demonstrating how difficult it is to be in such a position, yet also reveals an indomitable creative force.

Olga Kisseleva invites you to become co-author of one episode of the project Double Life, whose main characters combine creative activities with “money making” professions in everyday life. Each new episode of the project is a video-diptych consisting of a documentary material of the protagonist’s life and an artistic endeavour, conceived by the co-author.

The first phase of the project is a discussion, which will be followed by the formation of an artistic group of the project’s new co-authors.

The Double Life project was created in collaboration with the Sorbonne‘s Laboratory of sociology and social sciences.

Olga Kisseleva is the director of the Art&Science Program at the Faculty of Arts
Pantheon-Sorbonne University, Paris.

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Partener principal: BRD Groupe Societe Generale
Sponsori: Hotel Novotel, Murfatlar
Parteneri media: Igloo, Arhitectura, 24 Fun, rfi, feeder.ro, Cocor Media Channel

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