About us
The Visual Practices team grew out of collaboration during the period
2009-2011
two authors - Alexander Arfeev and Zoe Inkenas
(objects, installations). The new format took shape at the beginning of 2012 based on
hybrid practices that combine theory,
video, performance, documentary.
The concept of “practice” in the title includes two aspects. First:
practice, by definition, is an activity. Constant implementation of ideas and images
through the socialization of art. Second: practice as a continuation of theory, inclusion
cultural and visual studies into a single field.
The team's assets include works created jointly with Moscow
by post-academic composers (Gallery of Contemporary Music), film
"Yaroslavl.ok",
sociocultural projects “Village Park” and “Give yourself back to the city.”
The site also presents Zoe Inkenas' solo projects from 1991-2009.
Exhibitions, festivals, concerts
International video art festival "Now&After'13 - Between image and personality", MMOMA, Moscow, curator - Marina Fomenko, 04/22 -05/5/2013, main competition program (two-channel video "Townstep")
"John Cage's experiments and their context", NCCA - Ekaterina Foundation, Moscow, curator - Vitaly Patsyukov, 11.23.2012 - 01.20. 2013 (Video performance "4 minutes 33 composers") https://www.ekaterina-foundation.ru/rus/exhibitions/2012/cage/
Festival of contemporary music "Another Space", Moscow Philharmonic, (premiere of the film "Esto" at the concert of the Goeyvaerts String Trio ensemble (Belgium) December 7, 2012)https://www.meloman.ru/?id=6307#program
Festival of urban culture "Architecture of Movement", Yaroslavl, curators - Yulia Krivtsova, Sergey Kremnev, 1.09 - 16.09.2012 (projects: "Yaroslavl.ok", "Give yourself back to the city", "Village Park in Purshevo") https://armv.ru/education/
Concert on October 3, 2012 in the Chamber Hall of the Moscow Philharmonic "Inventing Cage. Music. Dance. Video. (Premiere of video performances "4 minutes 33 composers" and "Townstep") https://www.meloman.ru/?id=5788&full=Y
Participation in competitions
Sergei Kuryokhin Prize 2010, St. Petersburg (nomination pablic art, land art, graffiti) - Project "Village Park"
Award "Innovation 2010", Moscow (nomination work of visual art) - Project "Village Park"
Berlin Biennale 2012 - project "At the crossroads"
Promotion: competition - Barn #11, Moscow - project "Doubles"
Land art festival "Myths of the Urals 2011", Perm - project "Terricons of time"
Contemporary metal sculpture competition 2011, Platform for young art "Start", Moscow - project "Pipe. Box. Block."
Publications
Sensuous
Bronzes, by Smita Tewari Jassal, The Moscow Tribune, 24.03.1993
Exhibition catalog Russian contemporary art 1990-1994, Mad galerie eberhardt, 1994
Interview with Natalya Sharandak (1995) about everyday life and holidays
contemporary artist for her book "Women's Answers" (1997)
Newspaper "Peasant Rus'" No. 44, November 2011
Publicpost: “Politics is something we create ourselves” 09/10/2012
Molportal: “Ex-Yaroslavl residents “returned themselves to the city”” 09/04/2012
