Published: 26 September, 2009, 19:25
Edited: 27 September, 2009, 10:50
“Contemporary art in traditional museum” festival has opened in St.Petersburg coinciding with the Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art and Art Moscow. Artists worked to adapt their projects to different museums’ spaces.
The festival opened with “the Symphony of hooters” in the Peter and Paul Fortress performance created by Arseny Avramov in 1920s. This project features wind bands, choruses and a musical instrument invented by Avramov – “the railway”, which is several specially attuned locomotive hooters.
The symphony was performed twice – in 1922 in Baku (Azerbaijan) and in 1923 – in Moscow, dated to the celebration of the October revolution anniversary. In 2009 the project was reconstructed by composer Sergey Khismatov from St.Petersburg.
The Los Angeles Museum of Jurassic technology will present the project “Life of perfect beings” – portraits of five space trailblazers-animals in the Museum of Cosmonautics of Valentin Glushko
Also a video project “I buy, so I exist” by NY based artist Masha Sha will be a part of the festival along with Darya Bruker’s photo-project “Tabletizm” – a photo series of all possible pills.
Finally, on the territory of the Monument to the Heroic Defenders of Leningrad during the Second World War of 1941-1945, local composer Igor Potsukailo will present his sound installation project “I Hear the Blockade”.
Other venues will also host different exhibitions within the limits of the festival. For nine years now, it has been held annually in St. Petersburg by the PRO ARTE Foundation and NGO, promoting contemporary art.
The festival’s exhibitions will run through to October 18.