"ESCAPE Travel Agency-5",
performance, installation. Exhibition "Accomplices. Collective and Interactive Works in Russian Art of the 1960s-2000s", The State Tretyakov Gallery, 1 Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow;
In the course of this project a real travel agency was founded with a
support of “General Travels”. Artistes from Escape Program offered an
exclusive tour program to various places of Moscow for the 1 Moscow Biennale
guests that included joint art actions (performances) with a customer. A
goal of artists who acted as tour-guides was to change the viewers’
consciousness. The authors’ idea was that during a tour some kind of
initiation had to occur resulting in a spectator’s transformation into an
Artist.
New version of this project was more minimalist, more nonspectacular than
the last one. The exposition was not a copy of real travel agency office but
only informed how to order tours. The installation included 4 special
egg-shaped helmets. Each helmet had a hole for one of sense organ (nose,
mouth, eye). During the excursion a viewer put on a helmet blocking his
vision and 3 other basic senses except one which was a focus of this
excursion.
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