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Kirill Savchenkov

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Kirill Savchenkov Fireworks and Gunpowder 12th Gwangju Biennale 10
Kirill Savchenkov, Fireworks and Gunpowder, 12th Gwangju Biennale

Fireworks and Gunpowder

Table-top game, poem, installation, performance.

Fireworks and Gunpowder is an interactive, table-top game based on one created by the CIA, designed to prepare agents to address complex crises, and the boardgame Pandemic, about finding cures for viral pandemics. The project represents a simulation of cooperative actions in a turbulent world through gameplay. When an informational mist has enveloped us, it blurs the shapes of many things. Autocracy clashes with democracy, giving birth to hybrids, one of which you and the other player(s) encounter: the Night State of Strong-Arm Bureauc ...

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  • 2019, Horizon Community Display, Richter space, Moscow, Commissioned by Alkovi / HIAP
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Peaceful protesters are being hunted by the authorities after the fact with the help of artificial intelligence. The technology is haunted by the ghosts of autonomous weaponry, and shadows of the ones who operate it. The media becomes a weapon, inflicting the new type of wounds on ones who witness the hybrid war unfolding in the digital realm. It becomes apparent how these new wounds, described by Catherine Malabou, are now used by the informational autocracies, as the means of political repressions.

This is the study of such injuries, modeling a situation in which a conflict i ...

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Kirill Savchenkov works with various media including mediated sculpture, installation, performance and sound. His artistic practice raise the questions of hidden power and violence formations, new traumas acquired within production, experience, power and culture. The works highlight the proxy-metabolism of technology, informational autocracy and media weaponisation.

  • 2019, Then a Kiss is Not a Kiss, five-channel sound installation. Time, Forward! V—A—C Zattere, Venice. Courtesy of the artist.
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