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/Kulik’s Hair/

24 April - 25 August 2010

GRIDCHINHALL
Moscow area, Krasnogorsky district, Dmitrovskoe village, www.gridchinhall.ru




Creative consciousness of the artist is a very complicated process developing both in time and in space. Its material projection – installation “Kulik’s Hair” has the similar behaviour. The first twenty meters object keeps its plastic structure and clarity, a kind of energetic convolution. But with further development it enters gradually to a vague and amorphous area, splitting up to separate structures that are dwelt by worms and insects. After occupying the interior the object will keep developing during the exhibition. Overstepping the limits of the exhibision area the Hair will grow out of Gridchinhall.



It happens just by chance – it was one of the “circular tables”, were the Hair dropped out of Oleg Kulik’s beard, during monologue about the faith in Art and unity in the face of crisis. Caught on the clothes, it hung on the shoulder and it was carefully collected by Dmitriy Kawarga. In a few months the hair was pulled out of a test tube and measured. It appeared that Biological process hadn’t stopped and the hair keeps growing. It was obvious – artifact showed the behavior of biomorphous object that pushed Dmitriy forward to grow the Hair to full scale exhibition and careful art analysis of the phenomenon.




Keeping on the interactive tendencies of Dmitriy Kawarga works the new exposition explores onlookers’ thoughts flows. Research activities shows, that human brain is always bioelectric active. Every emotional or rational condition has its own unique pattern of such activity. Patterns are complicated, never repeating combinations of different rhythms (Alfa, Beta, Gamma etc), changing every second. Computer program that was made especially for the exhibition reads out those patterns. In dependence of sensor registration the program chooses one of soundtracks, thereby the object reacts on the bioactivity of the visitor brain. In other words, installation behaves different according to onlookers’ thoughts and emotions.




In spite of obvious insignificance of the cause, and a kind of ironical prehistory, the exhibition gives the reason to think about semantic correlations in material world, their biological characteristics and metaphysical projections.

















































Photos from "Kandinsky Prize 2010" the exhibition in the Central House of Artists




















3000x700x700, polymers, PC, biofeedback device, audio device, metal, glass, 2010

Audio – Kryptogen Rundfunk
Scientific curator – Timur Schukin
Programming – Sergey Monakhov



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