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2021
1987
Russia
Osnova
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 ...
Kirill Savchenkov (b. 1987, Moscow) works with various media including mediated sculpture, installation, performance, and sound. His artistic practice investigates the questions of hidden power formations, politics of affects, and new traumas acquired within the various spheres of production, experience, and culture. The works highlight the metabolism of technology, informational autocracy, and media weaponization.
In 2018 Vadim Sidur Museum held his solo show Ch(k)ris(tin). Close Air Support. In 2017, his solo exhibition Office of Sensitive Activities/ Applications Group (supported by V-A-C Foundation) was shown at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art. In 2016, Savchenkov presented the Museum of Skateboarding as part of the Power and Architecture program at Calvert22, London. He took part in the exhibition Time, Forward! (V-A-C Zattere, Venice) in 2019. He participated in the 14th Baltic Triennial (2021), the Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art (2019, 2017), and the 12th Gwangju Biennale (2018). He received the Innovation Prize (New Generation, Russia, 2018) and the grant program of Garage Museum of Contemporary Art (2017). He has been teaching at Rodchenko Art School since 2013.
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 ...
Liste Year
Year of Birth
Country of Birth
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2020
1987
Russia
Osnova
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.
Kirill Savchenkov (b. 1987, Moscow).
In 2018 Vadim Sidur Museum held his solo show Ch(k)ris(tin). Close Air Support. In 2017, his solo exhibition Office of Sensitive Activities/ Applications Group (supported by V-A-C Foundation) was shown at Moscow Museum of Modern Art. In 2016, Savchenkov presented Museum of Skateboarding as part of the Power and Architecture program at Calvert22, London. He took part in the exhibition Time, Forward! (V-A-C Zattere, Venice) in 2019. He participated in the Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art (2019, 2017) and in the 12th Gwangju Biennale (2018). He received the Innovation Prize (New Generation, Russia, 2018) and the grant program of Garage Museum of Contemporary Art (2017). He has been teaching at Rodchenko Art School since 2013.
Kirill Savchenkov's mixed media sculptures constitute the core of his latest works, that appeal to the interrelationships between techne and sensation, affects of media weaponisation and metabolism of things. Objects resembling the hybrids between vases and ikebanas appear to be the environmental witness of living-too-long disrupted political regime. These works are made of found objects, parts of the weapon equipment, organic fragments alongside with synthetic materials like polycaprolactone.