2012 – Cyland Video Archive

Leningrad 1.9.29

Darya Cherkashina — Wed, 21 Jul 2021 16:14:58 +0000

A central part of 3 channel projection

LENINGRAD 1.9.29. – part of the exhibition project Hidden City. The author’s views on the “Hidden City” from the inside out, with a bird’s-eye view. The project reveals the theme of the transitional state of the urban environment: interaction between the historic meaning of the space and modern temporary structures.

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Masks

Darya Cherkashina — Wed, 02 Dec 2020 17:27:17 +0000

The absurd video Masks is a political party without politics, just gastronomical fun, music and unrestrained dancing. The artist creates a variety of these media personalities. Dressed herring salad, caviar, lemonade and other Soviet insignia are devoured by the guests hiding behind the masks of celebrities

music The knife for Frau Muller

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Liszt

Darya Cherkashina — Wed, 14 Oct 2020 14:05:55 +0000

It is the beginning of the 20th century and three children are posing for a family photo. The children are young pioneers in a colony of Christian immigrants in Jerusalem. The subsequent intervention of the photographer has added to their bewildered faces the false colors of the photos of the period; a combination of chromatic shades with the odor of cookies and hot milk, porcelain dolls, long sea journeys, dusty old books, and an artificial “innocence”. This is the point of departure for a digital transformation in which the lower part of my face replaces that of the children, in a reversal of time and meaning crystalized in a non-time and non-meaning, as a different kind of story comes to light which, superimposing itself on the peculiar circumstances in which the photo was taken, looks for its metaphorical significance. In this way the three children become three human archetypes imprisoned in the eternal pillory of a family photo.

It is a forced communion that translates into reciprocal impatience and an increasing verbal violence that superimposes itself on the words, preventing any kind of interaction. The sense of incommunicableness is obtained by juxtaposing fragments of phrases found on the Internet, in a mash-up that unravels into a contemporary senseless dialogue that reveals how a word not listened to is, consciously or not, violence in its pure state. And therefore the universe concealed in this photo, the epic of human dreams and illusions, in the family album of the search for a lost innocence by these ancient pioneers, is translated into a form of violence that throughout history has brought extreme consequences. When there is only the word, one’s own, the mouth becomes a weapon. Nonetheless, the invitation to listen is recuperated in the end, in a sort of message of hope that I consign to the world through these three unknowing ancestors.

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Skyscrapers-zombies

Darya Cherkashina — Wed, 23 Sep 2020 18:09:40 +0000

Life is a set of processes, not the conditions. In the current project the disintegration of structures and communications, loss of a condition of durability and control of a matter are given by close up, with laboratory fixedness. Caducity — one of the main properties of system of state, and inevitably disappearing constructions, are an evident illustration of this property.

Special program for Video Guerrilha festival, Augusta street, San Paulo, Brazil

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Fedorov’s Endgame

Darya Cherkashina — Tue, 11 Aug 2020 18:45:18 +0000

This video was created by Petr Zhukov and Daniil Zinchenko. In this work, the game process is juxtaposed to the space that exists off-screen in the internal experience of time by the players. In this, one could discern a strive towards the practical mastering by the artists of a series of philosophical concepts from the … Continue reading "Fedorov’s Endgame"

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On Pause

Darya Cherkashina — Fri, 08 May 2020 16:47:38 +0000

Once I met a man, who lived in the airport, because he had no where to fly.

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Refraction

Darya Cherkashina — Thu, 14 Mar 2019 18:42:35 +0000

Lurie depicts his own private landscape on Super8 film and then transcribes the imprinted lit images within the prism of his memories and sensations. Here the black and white, urban, dreamlike scenes from the flatland of St.Peterburg and Kronstadt – the old Russia’s marine fort – refract into subdued colors of the pristine mountain terrain … Continue reading "Refraction"

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Merry-Go-Round

Darya Cherkashina — Thu, 09 Apr 2020 00:21:23 +0000

Human consciousness is ambivalent. Left and right, dark and light. Good is opposite to bad. One who perceives the world in such a way might be compared to a person riding on a merry-go-round. Events are repeated. This installation is about freedom. Man is free to compare things with each other, trying to understand what … Continue reading "Merry-Go-Round"

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Mad Mimes

Darya Cherkashina — Tue, 30 Apr 2019 12:33:44 +0000

Anthropologists discover artifacts of a pagan tribe in a thin forest along the Moscow Ring Road – a highway that marks the boundaries of the Russian capital. The tribe is entirely dependent on roadside trash collected along the highway: lost items, road signs, car parts enter into their material culture and are used in rituals, which symbolically reflect the life of the road. Under the guidance of a shaman and with the help of psychoactive substances the members of the tribe induce themselves into a state of trance where they ecstatically imitate the actions of road workers, truck drivers and road policemen.

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Loosen Up

Darya Cherkashina — Wed, 17 Apr 2019 13:40:48 +0000

In collaboration with Daria Pisareva

Music: Plane Passenger

Obstacles in life make one stronger if one finds opportunity to surmount them. A broken leg  brought dancer Daria Pisareva to a  form a new existence with a different rhythm and tempo. Pisareva finds a  new interpretation of dance by losing  possibility to move as she once did.

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