CYFEST-15: Regeneration – Cyland Video Archive

To-do list

Darya Cherkashina — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 17:39:41 +0000

Sound: Vasya Filatova

In the ‘To-do list’ project, Nadezhda experiments with the “VR space as an art object” format. This is a variation on installation, created entirely in digital form and therefore allows the viewer to exist in it differently than in the physical world. What people experience in a physical space is a mental construct. And the digital space in this context is a continuation of the mental space. What, can the environment of their thoughts and experience — turned into a virtual place — tell us about the experience of another? Is it possible to find a way to communicate with another in the space of one’s perception of reality?

The project mixes the physical with the mental and sensory experience, creating a tangled digital architecture that the viewer can immerse themselves in with VR equipment and try to step into the artist’s shoes, in her experience.

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Phantome flight

Darya Cherkashina — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 12:30:59 +0000

A film-essay delving into the memories of war and their enduring omnipresence that appears never-ending. Drawing upon personal and autobiographical considerations, the movie follows the imprints left by the experience of war. With the persistent emergence of new violent conflicts, they continue to exert a lasting influence on one’s emotional realm and familial bonds.

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Dzhnhal

Darya Cherkashina — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 08:33:55 +0000

The content of the work performed as part of the Festival of Snow and Ice Sculptures is checked through a word game. This is a video performance, the components of which are snow and earth. A word symbolizing the intensity of loss and pain that befell society and the Armenian people is born on a flat, snow-covered area, like white paper and a new page.

The work “Dzhnhal”, created by ephemeral particles of nature and the language of nature, conveys the allegory of the cycle of time, the warmth of memories and the pain of physical loss.

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I peel off my fragile skin

Darya Cherkashina — Tue, 11 Apr 2023 19:11:37 +0000

The manifesto of the artist is aimed at criticizing the dominant masculine structure of the world, patriarchal authority, and social inequality. In an attempt to rebuild her own female corporeality and gain social power, the heroine only finds herself facing her own fragility and vulnerability again. The video features a voice-over of the artist’s feminists’ letter, read by a Google voice assistant. This represents a delegation of the familiar act of speaking to someone else, as her own voice has never been heard before. Unintentional deformation of language occurs, raising the question of who the language belongs to.

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