2005 – Cyland Video Archive

Working man’s hands

Darya Cherkashina — Wed, 28 Oct 2020 19:09:03 +0000

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Park

Darya Cherkashina — Wed, 05 Aug 2020 04:19:12 +0000

In the video work Park the artist, as in many of his early videos, provokes the spectator to a higher level of focus. Before us is a park in the evening in the city of Stuttgart – at first glance, everything is as in life: a beautiful theater building on the shore of a lake, it’s warm, birds are singing, people are walking, riding bikes, the smoothness of the water is gently rippling. But gradually we notice that something transient and strange is happening. The reflections of the people in the water don’t move like the people: sometimes they are slower, sometimes they overtake their masters. Some of the statues on the roof of the theater, from time to time, come to life and move slowly, and on the facade of the building you can see the same ripples that are moving across the water. And above all these, in the contours of a large tree, we can make out the silhouette of the artist’s face. All of these artefacts balance on the level of an optical illusion, being barely distinguishable, and they are aimed at arousing the spectator’s attention.

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Twilight

Darya Cherkashina — Wed, 05 Aug 2020 04:13:10 +0000

The video Twilight is a work about the twilight of our consciousness and perception which, lacking any protection against the sheer volume of information that assails it, is very vulnerable.

The camera is static, it’s set up in a window with a view of a crossroads. At first glance, it appears that we’re just observing a boring city landscape. An additional dejection is added by the insipid colors of a winter evening. It seems as if there is nothing artistic here… But it’s not that simple: the spectator’s attention to detail is crucial. Looking carefully, we can see that at times the objects don’t cast shadows. The cars drive when the traffic light is red, stop when it’s green, and sometimes disappear as they turn, driving round the post. Some of the pedestrians, going beyond the same post, disappear forever, whilst others are identical to the others walking near to them; there are also people without any heads.

Twilight is one of Logutov’s first video works. It was back then that the artist had the idea that his video could be seen as a video-picture, where the emphasis would not be on the events taking place in time, but rather on the changes taking place within the shot. It is enough for the spectator to notice one of these by chance for him to begin to doubt his attentiveness and to switch to a deeper level of perception. And then it is very possible that much will be revealed.

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Episode

Darya Cherkashina — Wed, 05 Aug 2020 04:06:08 +0000

In this video, the artist grips the viewers’ attention with a provocative scene depicting a group of people fighting against the background of a winter cityscape and the pedestri-ans passing by.

“For me, it was an important, almost formal goal, I created different flows of time within a single video. Usually, the video can slow down, speed up or translate time in the same way that we perceive it in reality. I tried to carry out an ex-periment with different speeds in different planes of the same composition. In the same way that the different planes in Perugio’s pictures are precisely divided: the fore-ground, middle ground, background. The people in the foreground move five times slower than the pedestrians behind them, which, in principle, is impossible according to the laws of video materials. But if you look carefully, you see that in all the different planes, the people are the same,” the artist explains.

The entire experiment, however, is difficult to capture, it is camouflaged. The foreground provokes the viewer into re-flections on its contents.

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Glory to Capitalism!

Darya Cherkashina — Wed, 15 Jul 2020 20:02:49 +0000

This video film is a collage, consisting of footage filmed in a modern British factory, archival material and fragments from some classical films, such as Metropolis (Fritz Lang) and The Man with the movie camera (Dziga Vertov).

The film was a part of Olga Jurgenson’s installation Go West! at Peterborough Museum and Art Gallery, which was a culmination of more than 2 years research on life and work of migrant workers from Eastern Europe by her.

Pop music in the factory environment is common. While manufacturing and food packing workers have to listen to this music, broadcast with the aim of increasing productivity; dancing, singing and eating would be inappropriate in this environment. Within the exhibition Go West! the audience was invited to sing and dance along with the karaoke video projection, whilst simultaneously hearing the noise of working machines from the film Glory to Capitalism!, which was projected in the same space.

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Go West!

Darya Cherkashina — Wed, 15 Jul 2020 19:55:00 +0000

In 2004 ten new countries became members of the European Union. This led to a new wave of migration from the countries of the former Eastern Bloc. Unemployed professionals and skilled workers were filling vacancies in agriculture, food manufacturing, hospitality and other industries – performing dull duties in low-paid jobs, which British citizens did not wish to carry out. Commenting and reflecting upon the experience of migrant workers in the UK, Jürgenson developed an interactive installation that invited audiences to participate in the work within the gallery setting.

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Strasti

Darya Cherkashina — Wed, 15 Jul 2020 01:03:26 +0000

Film displays spiritual sufferings and searches of true in a totalitarian mode of post-war Russia. The person seen the sea of death, cannot go through it in absence of the God. Three conditional parts serve as analogue of bible history of sufferings, crucifixions and revivals of the Christ.

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Untitled n2

Darya Cherkashina — Thu, 14 May 2020 14:24:07 +0000

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Stairs

Darya Cherkashina — Fri, 08 May 2020 17:25:32 +0000

Multi-screen image of several flights of stairs where people move and dance.

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Scarlet Sails

Darya Cherkashina — Thu, 16 Apr 2020 21:54:38 +0000

Our film refers to the novel with the same name of the soviet writer Alexander Green. It is about eternal hope that will never leave peoples hearts. We made our film in Kronstadt, a famous historical place during the 1917 revolution. The central point of the film is the conflict between two generations, two different … Continue reading "Scarlet Sails"

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