This drawing was made after we have gotten an invitation to exhibit the group chto delat in the legendary ICA /London . After a several years of the official refusal and the persecution of the group in Russia it was important moment of the international recognition .
Scarlet sails is a symbol of the highest target /a sublime dream . We can see the last convulsions of the black costumes ,peddled in the red sea . Black costumes symbolizing the implementers of the society . White dress in the hill it is a victory of course ).It is relating with the our FFC film Scarlet Sales which based on the story of the soviet writer Alexander Green about the immovable believe to the miracle and a dignified dream ,written in 1916-1922.
Utopian Unemployment Union 2009
Russia, 2009.
14 minutes
Utopian Trade Union for the Unemployed No. 2
Declaration
We think that art should help people.
If you’ve been fired from your job and you’re in despair,
The ballerinas of the Vaganova Academy are willing to give you a helping hand,
And even a foot, and they’ll even give you their hearts.
The monstrous alienation that exists among people will be overcome.
There can be no doubt about this.
The way we move our bodies, like how we feel, can be transformed.
When you’re suspended between spaces,
When you’re stuck between stable structures,
Then your condition is revolutionary!
Reinvent yourself!
OPENNING OF GLUKLYA & TSAPLYA EXHIBITION 15 JANUARY 2010 ST.PETERSBURG
ZOO 2008
Zoo
Zoo is the film largely focused on the concept of female solidarity.
According to our survey in collaboration with sociologists from Undependent institute of sociological research and Smolnii university /st-Petersburg ,female friendship poorely compares with male brotherhood.
Why is this happening? Answering this question can take a lifetime.
The research preceded the film. We created the situation of temporary club called «Laments about men». We have written our scenario based on listening to a number of stories. One of the women represents a wide-spread symptom of a «manlike woman», a female, whose conscience is constructed by patriarchal dominating attitudes. She is successful in her career, but pathologically unhappy in her lovelife. The other heroine represents conservative female position. She is all pity and she is unusually passive in her actions. Both women are wrong. They are the victims of the system and will continue being unfree untill they realize their symptom and strart acting.
Utopian Unemployment Union N2
Utopian Unemployment Union
In one of the rooms or transitory spaces (staircase, hallway) of the Winter Palace takes place a dance of migrant workers and ballet dancers .(Vaganovskoe uchilishe). It is a performance with a structure: first the ballet dancers teach the migrants how to dance, then the opposite. We install their national women’s dresses. In the first part the dresses are “seated” around in the chairs. In the second part these dresses are hanging from the ceiling. There is a figure of a moderator who directs the dance, like a conductor. This figure looks without gender, as an androgyn. Continue reading “Utopian Unemployment Union N2”
TRILOGY: THE TRIUMPH OF FRAGILITY, IMMERSION 2002
Trilogy: The Triumph of Fragility, Immersion
Russia/Sweden, 2002.
11 minutes
SCARLET SAILS 2006
Scarlet Sails
Russia/Switzerland, 2005
7 minutes
Our film refers to the novel with the same name of the soviet writer Alexander Green. It is about eternal hope that will never leave peoples hearts. We made our film in Kronstadt, a famous historical place during the 1917 revolution. The central point of the film is the conflict between two generations, two different structures.
We proposed a utopian ending in our film.
Three Mothers and a Chorus 2009
Russia, 2007, 33 minutes
The film has the structure of an ancient Greek tragedy. Mothers explain their problems and the chorus which is constructed of the typical social characters is judging her. The film is dedicated to contemporary motherhood.
RENDEZVOUS IN BOUTIQUE 2009
Rendezvous in Boutique
Russia, 2009
19 minutes
INTERVIEW WITH DIMA VILENSKY/CHTO DELAT GROUP ABOUT UTOPIAN CLOTHES SHOP
D. I remember that when you and Tsaplya started working together, you tried to distance yourselves from any attempt at locating your work within the framework of feminist tradition. But at the same time, you also cooperated with some of Petersburg’s key figures in the feminist cultural discourse, such as Alla Mitrofanova and Ira Aktuganova. What has changed in recent years? How would you re-sketch your position today?
G. Our art has always addressed the inner world. It’s always been about the poetization of ordinariness, so that life would stop being so dull and depressing, so that the routines of everyday life would take on the infinitely gripping spirit of a performance. Tsaplya and I were drawn together by a love for adventure; Continue reading “INTERVIEW WITH DIMA VILENSKY/CHTO DELAT GROUP ABOUT UTOPIAN CLOTHES SHOP”