........... The outlines of form limit the object — we cannot and do not want to exist within the boundaries assigned to us: of our own bodies, of national borders, and of social norms. A person can extend their conception of an object through imagination, logic, or laws of nature that resist rational understanding. The need to expand, develop, and extend drives people forward — or, conversely, holds them in place, allowing them, without moving an inch, to overcome any distance through the power of imagination. Traces left along a path already travelled can lead us back to our starting point. It isn't even necessary to cross physical distances, since the traces left in musical notes, in paint on canvas and on walls, in the imprints of bodies in space, expand the limits available to us and send us back to the origins — to what existed before signs, where no outlines or forms existed at all ..........

Extension (Eng.) – Expansion – prolongation – propagation – continuation – extent – enlargement – lengthening – development – prolongation – enlargement – addition; also: branch – prolonging – disconnection – additional term – extension line – linear extension – extended end – installation length – extension tube

In the extension.art project, we're interested in the outcome of the different languages of art crossing beyond their existing limits, and in their interaction within the adjacent techniques thus formed. Forward into the future and back to the origins — in the development of the world, by virtue of a circular dependency, these amount to one and the same thing.

 

 

19:00
Exhibition PROTO

Curators: Timofey Karaffa-Korbut, Alexander Lysov

Participants: Timofey Karaffa-Korbut / Alexander Lysov / Kirill Chelushkin / Alexander Povzner / Vasily Tsereteli / Maxim Smirennomudrensky / Anna Zhyolud / Egor Koshelev / Dmitry Tsvetkov

 

About exhibition

 

Three Beginnings — beginnings in the most literal sense. The cradle of humanity, the cradle of modern European civilization, the cradle of the human being — the Stone Age, early Christianity, childhood!

The exhibition PROTO works with what happens BEFORE — an opportunity to reflect on the historical origins of the creative process within the context of today's globalized world, where both temporal and spatial distances have contracted, and the limits of the external world have once again become visible in their entirety.

Under these conditions, strategies of artistic interaction can rely not on originality or novelty, but on shared common ground, creating the conditions for a "forced breakthrough" of the real — one tied to purifying language of everything superfluous, of every utopia, every concept, and their negation. The artist's work engages with what lies BEFORE thoughts and conjecture, feeling and sensation, the personal and the shared — while preserving the irreplaceability of the individual that is characteristic of island cultures.

 

20:00

Years Later: Mikhail Baryshnikov, 2009 (20 min)

Director: Ace Mader (USA)

 

The film was made in collaboration with choreographer Benjamin Millepied.

Performed by: Mikhail Baryshnikov

Music: Philip Glass, Erik Satie.

Provided by the Baryshnikov Arts Center.

 

For the production "Years Later," Ace Mader collaborated with choreographer Benjamin Millepied, with Mikhail Baryshnikov performing the leading role as dancer. Its first screening took place in April 2009 at the Baryshnikov Arts Center in Riga, Latvia, after which the film toured theatres across Europe before returning to the US in the autumn of 2009.

Today, we're presenting the film in Moscow.

 

20:25

"A Little Geometric Progression," performance, 2010 (25 min)

 

Music — Fyodor Amirov, Nikita Tikhonov
Painting — Maxim Smirennomudrensky
Dance — Evgenia Sukhareva, Konstantin Grouss
Choreography, composition — Konstantin Grouss (ZERO Dance Gallery)

 

About performance

Free-flowing movement, bounded by a conditional structure.
Rhythm is born from the relationship between sounds, the proportions of bodies, inner movement, and patches of colour.
The calculation is simple: 1 artist – 2 dancers – 4 synthesizers – 8 corners – …

 

Each line of the performance — music, painting, dance — is independent. Their interaction gives rise to improvisational, spontaneous, unpredictable compositions. The ending is a surprise even for the participants themselves.

 

The performance was created specifically for the Extension.art project and is the result of a collaboration between artists working across different fields of art.