How to get to the art?
a series of meetings with residents of the Khovrino District and an
exhibition as part of the Event Lab, VAC Foundation, Moscow, 2021
Creative team members:
Tatiana Danilevskaya, Dmitry Chevozerov, Julia Sheina
Visitors to the Neva Center in the Khovrino neighborhood of
Moscow and activists were looking with me for ways to build an
open dialogue and engage collectively. One participant asked
me, «What is art? And how to watch it?» Out of that question
grew a research project, «How do we get to art?» The creative
team sought the answer through collaborative walks through
the neighborhood, street performances, and conversations with
locals.
The Google map platform created a map of the Khovrino
neighborhood and the outskirts of https://www.google.
com/maps/d/u/0/edit?mid=101I6Oy_FkdzBMzUn_
DVN1eaG6VURCjQr&usp=sharing with the points of perfect
collective practices of the participants, their art works and the
results of the survey of local residents «How to get to art?».
Collective practices are available in the form of audio and text
instructions.
The itinerary marks the points that locals label art: «The
park where Pushkin’s heroine Tatyana Larina used to walk,
the chestnut tree by the gas station, the place where an
internationally famous rowing coach used to train, and the
Khovrinsky Oak, the oldest tree in Moscow. These points
are classified into four categories: personal, tasty-beautiful,
historical, virtual. They contain videos, photos, and descriptions.
The layers of the map correspond to the levels of reflection in
the exploration of art objects and art boundaries. Thus, the
geographical map of Khovrino is extended by mental maps of
artistic experience.
a series of meetings with residents of the Khovrino District and an
exhibition as part of the Event Lab, VAC Foundation, Moscow, 2021
Creative team members:
Tatiana Danilevskaya, Dmitry Chevozerov, Julia Sheina
Visitors to the Neva Center in the Khovrino neighborhood of
Moscow and activists were looking with me for ways to build an
open dialogue and engage collectively. One participant asked
me, «What is art? And how to watch it?» Out of that question
grew a research project, «How do we get to art?» The creative
team sought the answer through collaborative walks through
the neighborhood, street performances, and conversations with
locals.
The Google map platform created a map of the Khovrino
neighborhood and the outskirts of https://www.google.
com/maps/d/u/0/edit?mid=101I6Oy_FkdzBMzUn_
DVN1eaG6VURCjQr&usp=sharing with the points of perfect
collective practices of the participants, their art works and the
results of the survey of local residents «How to get to art?».
Collective practices are available in the form of audio and text
instructions.
The itinerary marks the points that locals label art: «The
park where Pushkin’s heroine Tatyana Larina used to walk,
the chestnut tree by the gas station, the place where an
internationally famous rowing coach used to train, and the
Khovrinsky Oak, the oldest tree in Moscow. These points
are classified into four categories: personal, tasty-beautiful,
historical, virtual. They contain videos, photos, and descriptions.
The layers of the map correspond to the levels of reflection in
the exploration of art objects and art boundaries. Thus, the
geographical map of Khovrino is extended by mental maps of
artistic experience.
