2013/14 - LISTE 18 | The young art fair in Basel

KOW2/3/1KOWAlexander KochNikolaus OberhuberBrunnenstrasse 9DE-10119 BerlinT +49 30 311 66 770M +49 172 19 00 983gallery@kow-berlin.comSolo Show at LISTE:Chto Delat?, founded 2003, RUOther Artists of the Gallery:Arno Brandlhuber, DEAlice Creischer, DEBarbara Hammer, USChris Martin, USFrédéric Moser, CH& Philippe Schwinger, ATMario Pfeifer, DETina Schulz, DESantiago Sierra, ESMichael E. Smith, USFranz Erhard Walther, DEClemens von Wedemeyer, DETobias Zielony, DEChto Delat?Border Musical,2013HD Video, 16:9, color,sound, 48:30 minChto Delat’s latest film project ‘BorderMusical’, produced and commissioned bythe Pikene på Broen (Kirkenes, Norway)and in co-operation with Bergen Biennial2013, starts with a critical analysis ofNorway’s contemporary society.‘Border Musical’ issues two frequent,yet disagreeable social topics: The marriagemarket along the border between Russiaand Norway and the rigid social caresystem routinely pulling children out of theirfamilies to integrate them into ‘healthier’environments. Whilst ‘Border Musical’ is aneat studio production with moving chantsrecalling Bertholt Brecht’s ‘Singspiele’,it deconstructs the glossy image of thewelfare state and its generous solidarity.actualized in his ‘What is to be done?’(1902). Chto Delat? as a collective operatesin different mediums such as video films,graphics, and murals, learning theater,newspaper publication, radio plays, militanttheory and so on. The artistic activityof Chto Delat? is operated by four memberartists: Tsaplya Olga Egorova, NikolaiOleinikov, Natalia Pershina/Glucklya, andDmitry Vilensky who often co-operatewith Russian and international artists andresearchers in common projects realizedunder the collective name of Chto Delat?110 / 111Chto Delat? (What is to be done?) wasfounded in 2003 in Petersburg by aworkgroup of artists, critics, philosophers,and writers from Petersburg, Moscow,and Nizhny Novgorod with the goalof merging political theory, art, and activism.The name of the group brings reminiscencesof the first socialist worker’s selforganizationsin Russia, which Lenin