Exhibitions in GARAGE: December 2017

Weekend Faculty Session with Martha Rosler, November 18, 2017, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Photo: Anton Donikov

Dear Friends,

As soon as a chilly November rolled in, the Museum activities all moved indoors, creating what is being called the “lecture boom” at Garage. Taking place several times a day throughout the Museum as well as in the Education Center and Library, these various seminars, reading groups, artist talks, kids and adults workshops, guided tours, film screenings, and round tables on a range of topics have been developed to discuss the most pressing issues of today and share knowledge and ideas between invited experts and participants. If you happen to be in Moscow this month, mark your calendars with events that are of interest to you.

In other news, this winter brings a new iteration of the Art Experiment project, which this year will focus on exploring questions of ecology and future survival by partnering with not only artists, but also scientists, biohackers, and engineers from around the world. And while we are on cross-disciplinary activities, November also saw Garage launch an open call for applications for the second Art and Technology grant, which supports emerging artists and artist groups working with information and engineering technologies, as well as in the field of art & science. The deadline is January 11, and Russian only artists under the age of 35 can apply, so spread the word!

Scroll down for more information on what’s in store this month at Garage.

All the best,

Kate Fowle
Garage Chief Curator

 

GARAGE EXHIBITIONS

Weekend Faculty Session with Arseny Zhilyaev, November 10, 2017, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Photo: Anton Donikov

GARAGE WEEKEND FACULTY WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE EXHIBITION FIELD RESEARCH: LIBERATING KNOWLEDGE
Exhibition dates: October 23–December 3, 2017
Weekend Faculty dates: November 17–December 3, 2017

Earlier in September, Garage launched an open call within the framework of the exhibition Field Research: Liberating Knowledge. Progress Report II inviting applications from artists, curators, writers, and researchers residing in Russia or the Commonwealth of Independent States to participate in the Weekend Faculty sessions, the public program around the exhibition. More than seventy applicants based in cities in the Republics of Armenia, Kyrgyz and Azerbaijan, as well as Russia and Ukraine have submitted a research project around a subject related to their region. The wealth of research topics received ranged from investigations in local histories of art, feminism, the soviet social and cultural heritage, architecture and so on.

The Faculties are led by artists Arseny Zhilyaev, Martha Rosler, and Dmitry Vilensky and are aimed at those who wish to deepen their research-oriented practices, offering an opportunity for a more engaged dialogue and critical discussions.

Ten outstanding applicants from outside of Moscow were awarded the Garage Weekend Faculty Scholarship, which covers travel and accommodation expenses. Within Arseny Zhilyaev’s Faculty: Anastasia Vepreva (St. Petersburg), Andrey Efits (Kaliningrad), Zoya Falkova (Almaty). Within Martha Rosler’s Faculty: Anastasia Bogomolova (Chelyabinsk), Alexey Markin in collaboration with Ilya Yakovenko (Kiev), Sona Stepanian (Yerevan). Within Dmitry Vilensky’s Faculty: Mehbar Abbasov (Baku), Olga Zychkova (Saratov) and Diana Ukhina (Bishkek).

The exhibition’s participating artists include Council (Sandra Terdjman and Grégory Castéra) & Tarek Atoui with Alison O’Daniel; Sammy Baloji; Chto Delat; Mariam Ghani; Dmitry Gutov and David Riff; Susanna Gyulamiryan; Alexandra Sukhareva.

 

Adam Zaretsky, Glimpses 2017, 2017, Illustration: Tim May, Courtesy Adam Zaretsky

ART EXPERIMENT: LABORATORIES OF EARTHLY SURVIVAL
December 19, 2017 – January 8, 2018

Garage continues its annual project Art Experiment, where visitors of all ages are invited to participate in hands-on experiences and creative collaborations with artists and peers. Its eighth edition entitled Laboratories of Earthly Survival will allow visitors to envision various imaginary perspectives for our environment and to get directly involved in “hacking” life sciences by taking part in alternative biological, genetic, and robot-engineering experiments.

Art Experiment: Laboratories of Earthly Survival will present large-scale immersive installations by the art group Where Dogs Run (Yekaterinburg) and the artist Anastasia Potemkina (Moscow), who proposed their radical scenarios of a not-so-distant future. The exhibition is accompanied by a series of workshops tailored to different age groups. Led by some of the most thought-provoking artists, scientists, biohackers, and engineers from Russia, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland, they will combine cutting-edge science with DIY aesthetics and lo-fi materials. Participating artists include Paul Granjon, Hackteria, Anastasia Potemkina, Where Dogs Run, Adam Zaretsky.

 

GARAGE EDUCATION

Cultural Leadership: New Skills and Approaches to Sustainability, a lecture by Sian Prime, November 15, 2017, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Photo: Anton Donikov

SERIES OF LECTURES THEORIES AND PRACTICES OF CULTURAL LEADERSHIP

Garage Museum of Contemporary Art and the British Council have launched a series of lectures dedicated to the role of contemporary leadership. Ten professionals from different cultural sectors—from architecture to modern dance—will share their experiences and talk about goals they need to achieve and the importance of their work in the global context. The audience will meet directors of national funds and those who form the culture policy in Great Britain and discuss how the cultural sector responds to the most urgent issues of modernity as well as having the chance to talk to leading practicing professionals of the sphere.

 

GARAGE ARCHIVE AND LIBRARY

The Memoirs of Giorgio de Chirico, a lecture by Kara Miskaryan, October 2, 2017, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Photo: Anton Donikov

SERIES OF LECTURES ON NEW EDITIONS RELEASED BY GARAGE PUBLISHING PROGRAM
November 3, 2017 – January 14, 2018

In October 2017, Garage Library launched a series of events on new editions released by the Museum’s publishing program. A presentation of Giorgio de Chirico’s book Memories of My Life took place on October 2. Art historian Kara Miskaryan spoke on the publication and de Chirico’s oeuvre in the context of Italian modernism. A lecture on the phenomenon of postmodern dance by Daria Lavrennikova, choreographer and researcher in the field of problems of contemporary dance, took place on November 20. The lecture was based on two publications: Blood Memory: An Autobiography by Martha Graham and Terpsichore in Sneakers: Post-Modern Dance by Sally Banes (soon to be published in GARAGE DANCE series).

 

GARAGE SCREEN

Ex libris: New York Public Library, Director: Frederick Wiseman, 197 minutes, USA, 2017

2A17: AMERICAN ARTHOUSE FILM FESTIVAL
December 12 – 17, 2017

From December 12–17, Garage’s auditorium will become the venue for 2A17: AMERICAN ARTHOUSE FILM FESTIVAL showcasing eight indie films representing the diversity of themes, genres, and issues that independent American filmmakers are preoccupied with today. The main focus of the program will be identity and cross-cultural dialogue. The titles featured include Eliza Hittman’s Beach Rats, which is an empathetic drama showing a young man's adolescent turmoil; Jennifer Brea’s Unrest, a documentary about her battle with chronic fatigue syndrome and Frederick Wiseman’s Ex Libris: New York Public Library, a behind the scenes look into one of the world’s biggest libraries and cultural institutions.