#uralbiennale

NiiiChego is the group of artists who claims the to make “analyse and research in the field of doing nothing”.  Feeling the meaningless and lost positions to today’s situation they turn it into the artistic manifest. As the artistic group NiiChego organised meetings and exhibitions, where the provides the result of their activity. This ironic  approach includes the paradox of doing nothing as one of the possible activity. For the CMU they’ve created the tree of records for the viewer, where they introduce their methods. Following the tree the viewer can become a part of NiiChego group. 

The project of Ekaterian Shelganova “Ideal  photo to passport,  photo to ideal passport” is an ongoing series of photo performances in which the artist offers an alternative approach to the process of photographing documents. During her performance she provides the viewer to create 2 photos - one is based on UFMS, and another photo -  the ideal photo based on the viewer’s opinion. She supposes the standard procedure of taking photo as the meditation process. Making the special atmosphere during photographing she poses question of self-identification and the role of government in this process. 

“Found project” is an archive of ideas. The authors  shared them and posted them to the archive so other people could implement and realise them. The project is  aimed to build relationships within the artistic community. Artists usually creates high number of ideas, which usually stay unrealised due to different reasons - lost interest, impossibility to realise etc. Anastasia as the curator of the project has created the space where the participants are invited to give forbidden or not-used projects. From another side the visitors of the archive could take any of the idea  from the archive and create new project based on the taken idea. 

The project “Unknown Artist” of Olesia Kachanovksa is the dialog of artist with society. Entering into the branch of Olesia the viewer can hear the talk of artist who poses questions  - what is art now and where is the place of art nowadays. It’s a personal manifest or artist who  is also mother and worker. The form of phone call turns dialog into monolog, and asked question, but you may not post your answers  back emphasizes the fact that these questions always stay without answer.  

Inside the communication management unit,  Shwemy prepared special project. The project consists of the instruction where Shvemi introduces their principals and information about the industry of fashion. It’s a tree of choices following which the viewer can get the information or participate in online workshops.  Their’ tree is created based on the possible dialog with the viewer of exhibition.

1) Kizilova Anastasia, Found Project 2) Lera Lerner, The city of replaced people 3)  Leonid Tszche, The lesson of performative drawing and active posing. 4) Shvemi 5) Olesia Kachanovska, Not-known artist 6)  Katia Sherbakova, The ideal foto for passport 7)  NiiChego 8) Daria Kolcova ? 9) Chto Delat ?

The title of the exhibition - “Communication Management Unit” is taken from the type of self-contained group within a facility in the United States Federal Bureau of Prisons that severely restricts, manages and monitors all outside communication of inmates in the unit. It emphasizes the idea of creation space appropriate for the nowadays post-internet reality.