Full Shift Working

Video Artist: Anton Khlabov
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Duration: 5 min 0 sec
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as installation could be divided to 3 screen parts: 13:51″, 6:57″, 04:08″ (dvd disks)

Conveyor system  is a tool that exercises a universal operation similar to addition in mathematics and unvaried regardless of the specific object it is applied to. The video is about an abstract process with no end or beginning. A ceaseless stream of signs in the information space is similar to a steady flow of details on the continuous belt. The viewer can only see fragments from his “work place”


Anton Khlabov

Photographer and multimedia artist Anton Khlabov (born in 1986 in St. Petersburg) graduated in 2005 in "New technologies in contemporary art" from the "School for Young Artists" program, a project of the St. Petersburg PRO ARTE Foundation.

His works have been included in Festival "OutVideo `06", parallel program of the festival SITM (2007), parallel program of the 2nd Moscow Biennial, Avanto Festival 07 at Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art (Helsinki). Works in Collections: “Full Shift Working” (video installation) – The State Museum of Political History of Russia

In beginning of my way I started searching in the symbolic space for contemporary art at the same time in two diametrically disparate directions - on the one hand, it was a "straight" photography, on the other hand - video art, realized in the technique of animation. Balancing between these two paths, where one of the poles provided documentary authenticity, and on the other – infantile animation makes any things like a "toy"… I became interested in the symbolic convention of borders that each time I somehow addressed in each of my major works. In the role of this “Border” could be a picture frame or television screen, the line separating reality and expectation, surprise and fear, reality and its reflection.