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There are several folk sagas in Dagestan about men who have lost their noses. To prove their courage and at the same time retrieve their noses, they set off on quests. (Measuring noses of North Caucasus people for Landscape, a work by Taus Makhacheva)

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Elektrosila, Sankt-Peterburg

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What thinks me

Program

The exhibition What thinks me seeks to understand how the concept of the self is being constructed and/or reflected through artworks. The show revolves around this subject through metaphors, object-based stories and artworks themselves.

The name of the show derives from a text written by artist John Baldessari (b. 1931). J. Baldessari is an American conceptual artist whose work was famously criticized as ‘a mere parody of conceptualism’. However we see the importance of Baldessari’s work for the next generation of artists.

In his text-work titled What thinks me now (1982) the artist named a continuous list of things, enumerating abstract ideas that think him - who said it is not the right expression to describe a process of idea circulation? The text encompasses a wide list; as wide as one’s consciousness, or one’s self. This text work became a premise for the show, where the artworks were chosen and exhibition was composed according to it. One could say this is a show dedicated to a single artwork. ‘What thinks me’ became a tool to generate content.

The show is comprised of an exhibition and a series of events, including performances and a workshop. Graphic designer: Daiva Tubutytė Exhibition display: Marija Olšauskaitė and Petras Olšauskas Exhibition curators: Justė Kostikovaitė and Monika Lipšic Events Opening Performance Event 27 June 2014, from 8 pm Artists: Technopoetry (RU), Lina Lapelytė (UK) Recurring Performance Event Yes, Really! 2014, a performance by Lina Lapelyte (UK) Workshop Another Victory Over The Sun: Workshop 5 July 2014, 12-6 pm The day will feature a presentation by artist Rebecca LaMarre, art historian Amelia Groom, curator Juste Kostikovaite with conversation and screenings from contributors to the publication. Networking Blind Carbon Copy: Curators Go To The Bar: 90+ 30 June 2014, Monday, all day

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'image' mix by Jaques Gaspard Biberkopf

A great mix and a confounding interview with one of our thinkers - Jaques Gaspard Biberkopf here.

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A game that would play itself

A game by Viktor Timofeev

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Euthanasia Coaster by designer Julijonas Urbonas will be presented in exhibition in Saint Petersburg too.

http://designandviolence.moma.org/euthanasia-coaster-julijonas-urbonas/

EUTHANASIA COASTER

Designer Julijonas Urbonas “Euthanasia Coaster” is a hypothetic euthanasia machine in the form of a roller coaster, engineered to humanely – with elegance and euphoria – take the life of a human being. Riding the coaster’s track, the rider is subjected to a series of intensive motion elements that induce various unique experiences: from euphoria to thrill, and from tunnel vision to loss of consciousness, and, eventually, death. Thanks to the marriage of the advanced cross-disciplinary research in mechanical engineering, space medicine, fairground psychology  and, of course, gravity, the fatal journey is made pleasant, elegant and ritualistic. Celebrating the limits of the human body but also the liberation from the horizontal life, this ‘kinetic sculpture’ is in fact the ultimate roller coaster: John Allen, former president of the famed Philadelphia Toboggan Company, once sad that “the ultimate roller coaster is built when you send out twenty-four people and they all come back dead. This could be done, you know.”

Euthanasia Coaster by Julijonas Urbonas is also part of a MoMA show Design and Violence.

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Jaako Pallasvuo, Rasta Medusa, 2013 Dye-sublimation print on canvas 120 x 80 cm

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Jaako Pallasvuo, DO PAINT THE MEADOWS WITH DELIGHT, 2013 Dye-sublimation print on canvas 120 x 80 cm

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 by Jason Hirata

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Pobeda Nad Solncem reconstructed costumes in front of the State Hermitage. (dir. Galina Gubanova)

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Sergey Yugov photo

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Jordan Wolfson at David Zwirner, NY

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_and_legal_rights