Poznań

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Eugenia
Gortchakova (Germany)
curator Ottica TV
co-curators Paul Malone
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Born in 1950 in Kirov, Russia. Lives and works in Oldenburg, Germany.
Education: 1967-82 Philology- and Arthistory-Studies at State-University Moscow;
1991-92 Atelier in Paris; 1992 Atelier at Oldenburg.
www.kuenstlerinnenverband.de/kunst/gortchakova
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
2010 Kuenstlerhaus Vienna (solo); Film-Festival Chanty Mansisk; Festival
Traverse Video, Goethe-Institut, Toulouse, FR (group) / 2009 Wrubel-Art-Museum
Omsk (solo); Town- Museum Györ (solo) / Markers VII-Project, Galleria Scalamata,
Venice, IT; Gallery Sandmann, Berlin, DE; Triannials/Biannials: London, Novosibirsk,
Krakau, Katowice, Györ, Alexandria, Bitola, Evora, Istambul, Edinburgh, Bonn /
2008 Karl Jaspers,University Oldenburg; Contemporary Art Ruhr 08, Essen;
„Urban Jealousy“ Biennial of Tehran (all group); Gallery GAD Berlin, DE (solo) /
2007 Galeria Zejscie Krakow; BWA Olsztyn, PL (all solo); Gyeongnam International
Art Festival; Korea, KR; Markers’ VI, Venezia; Kassel; New York; 14th Tallinn Print
Triennial, (group) / 2006 Gallery Salustowicz, Bielefeld; M’ARS Gallery, Moscow,
RU (all solo) / Videofestival, Novosibirsk; Triennial Kraków, PL (group) /
2005 Museum Cloppenburg (solo) / Pols apart Poles together Markers’ V, 51.
Biennale Venice; Hercules-Festival, Lenox Gallery, London, UK; „Kunstfrühling“
Towngallery Bremen (group)
Projects as curator: 2010 „REVERSE“ Omsk Art museum / 2009 „Genius loci“
Novosibirsk Art museum / 2008 „Crossroads. Nomadic knowledge and art
strategies“ Bishkek Art Center / 2006 „Translations from Russian“ M’ARS Center,
Moskau, „ANIGMA“ Artmuseum Novosibirsk
The video is based on the intensive correspondence between two philosophers
– Karl Jaspers and Hannah Arendt. The Theme is Time. It transforms the correspondence
into a rhythmic sequence of short cuts from scenes of New York, where Hannah Arendt
lived and her teacher- friend has never been, because of his illness. Hannah Arendt
has brought the world to him – wrote Jaspers. New York is recognisable in the moments
of communication – the main idea of existence-Philosophy. The hard cuts correspond
to the quick change of impressions and the flow of time in the world Metropolis.
The Video is like a report about today’s New York.
The material is shot in New York. The cuts are determined by the rhythm
of the correspondence - a pattern created by the posting of 403 letters between
New York and Basel. The panoramas (1 sec.) represent the writing of a letter.
The length of the scenes corresponds to the intervals between the letters (1 day – 0,1’).
In this way New York will be recognizable only in the moment of communication
– one of the central terms of the existence philosophy of Jaspers and Arendt.
The length of the 10 chapters corresponds to the intervals between the meetings
during H.A. visits to Europe.
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Free like a leaf in the wind, 2009
8204 days of correspondence between Hannah Arendt and Karl Jaspers, video 15’05’’