Golem of Consciousness - IV

Victor Mazin, Olessia Turkina, Valery Dudkin, Vladimir Tamrazov


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text:
Golem of Con-Sciousness 4: Mythogeny's Lift-off.
Subject: correlation of Technology, Consciousness, Time, and Ideology on the example of the competition between American and Soviet space programs read through a book for children Neznaika on the Moon published in 1965 in USSR.
Duration: 90 min
Language: Russian and English
Participants: Olessia Tourkina and Viktor Mazin (text, reading), Valery Dudkin (sound engeneering, computers, music), and Vladimir Tamrazov (video, environment).
Biography:
Viktor Mazin
- critic. Editor-in-chief of the Kabinet magazine. Writes for different art, psychiatric and psychoanalytic magazines. Curated several exhibitions of contemporary art in different countries. Presented papers on theory of visuals in museums and universities of St.Petersburg, Vienna, Baltimore, Salzburg, Berlin, Hamburg... Translated essays from English (de Man, Ulmer, Cage, Molnar) and from French (Althusser, Levinas, Lyotard, Stiegler, Guattari). victor@kabinet.spb.ru

Olesya Turkina - art historian, graduated from Leningrad University (dep. Art History). Since 1980 works in The State Russian Museum (since 1991 in the Dep. of Contemporary Art). Writes for different art magazines and catalogues. Editor of art & science magazine ~Kabinet~. Curated many exhibitions of contemporary art in museums and galleries in Russia, Germany, Finland, USA, Switzerland... Author of a book ~St.Petersburg Alter~ (together with V.Mazin), 1994 (Ed.D'en Haut, Swiss). Alter~ (EDH, Swiss, 1994).

Valery Dudkin - musician, composer. Performed as improvisational guitar player at more than 50 international jazz festivals in different countries. Collaborated with O.Turkina and V.Mazin in different art projects. Played in groups together with Sergei Kurjokhin, Henry Kaizer, John Osvald, Han Bennink, et al. Records: ZGA 5 (Recommended Records, London), ZGA ~The End of an epoch (CD ReR, Cuneiform USA), New Music from Russia (CD Leo Rec, London) and others.

Vladimir Tamrazov - artist. Worked in Moscow, Italy, Ecuador. Since 1993 lives and works in St.Petersburg. Author of several video collages, installations. Took part in many exhibitions of contemporary art.


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