[Oberlist] Invitation to the exhibition The luxury of the essential [13. Kunst- und Kulturfestival 17-19 june 2011, Berlin]

[Татьяна Федорова]

 *venue: *Alte Kindl-Brauerei – zuhause e.V.

Fri 19:00 — 22:00
Sat 14:00 — 22:00
Sun 14:00 — 19:00

Artist’s group “a message body” – Manuela Macco, Tatiana Fiodorova and Elena
Ilina show in her videoproject certain codes which our culture applies
concerning women’s clothes and, besides, define the concept
“Luxury” around as one of the most precious human abilities in the
concentration on the essentials, as a luxury of the critical reflexion about
ourselves and our culture. Their works, each based on their performences,
are reports of their being on the move to the essentials, but also
illustrations of the social view points.


 a message body: Elena Ilina, Manuela Macco, Tatiana Fiodorova

*The luxury of the essential:*

*Elena Ilina:  videoperformance “The Other Shore” , 10 minutes*

The videowork shows a performance which the artist, dressed in a black dress
of a vakhabit woman,  has carried out in the streets of Venice in October,
2010 during seven days while Biennial . It was recordered by 2 assistants of
the bihind. The work was about the measuring oft he compatibility of two
different views of women’s clothes, western and muslim  both based
 nevertheless,  on the  concept, a woman should dress in a way, so that it
is accepted by the society, in other words like all others.  It was
important for the artist to observ  the formation of ambivalent pictures as
well as  ambivalent and contradicting reactions of the passers-by, tourist
and the locals.

*Manuela Macco: Performance and video recording “Dress” 10 min*

On the day of the opening Manuela Macco would show her performance “Dress”,
later the performance will be demonstrated as a  video recording (30 min).
She performed it already in May, 2010 in studio Soldina, Berlin and July,
2010 in Vienna during the Biennieal. In her performance project “Dress”
Manuela Macco wraps her naked body in a kind of dress made of newspapers
 which she tears off in the slow motion tempo of the walls of the gallery,
until her body transforms  into a misshapen paper heap, blind and faceless.
With her performance the artist reflects the manipulating influence of the
mass media on  the self-image of Italian woman.

*Tatiana Fiodorova: Videoperformance “European Clothing” ,10 min*

The performance which  has been performed and recordered in summer, 2010 in
the streets and at the market of Chisinau, Moldavia, concerns the problems
of the influence of the west-European culture on the East European
life-style which is  often not reflected and remains only super ficial. A
young woman goes through the streets of an East European town t to buy  some
western clothes on the marke. This is the place where usually the most
inhabitants of the town supplies itself  with cheap carried clothes from the
West Europe or with their simulations from the third countries. She just
manage  it financially to buy to herself a skirt and a T-shirt, maybe also a
pair of shoes, but for the underwear remains to her neither money, even more
mental space for considerations. Thus the population of the country uses the
underwear of the old Soviet style, even if it tries to adapt itself
externally to the western clothes style.  The artist  sees in this
similarity to the whole influence of the western culture on her country.

http://tatianafiodorova.wordpress.com/

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*13. Kunst- und Kulturfestival 17.-19.june, 2011, Berlin*

A festival of the arts in one of Berlin’s most socially underprivileged
areas with the theme of “Luxus“ (luxury) is obviously meant to provoke. For
a while now, the value of art has been a matter of debate, especially when
discussing the idea of guaranteeing that those working in the arts can make
ends meet, as well as the discussion about whether Neukölln can remain a
location for the arts scene. 48 Stunden Neukölln provides a forum to
exchange ideas about these issues, to investigate other positions, and to
give due attention to issues that concern people today.

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