Trailer Summary Season Five
For a short overview about the upcoming Season 5 watch the extended Trailer
Methods of Art (MOA) is a series of video interviews with contemporary artists from a wide range of fields, backgrounds and formations. The series explores core questions of „art making“ and the methods in their artistic production. A set of ten central questions aims to approach this matter from different angles:
The ten resulting videos of every artist add to an archive that makes the number of different approaches, concepts, strategies, methods, ideas and understandings visible and simultaneously points out zones of overlapping.
MOA was created by Johannes M. Hedinger (Zurich/New York) and Torsten Meyer (Cologne) as a pool of video-based education materials for the integrated use of current media technology in blended learning scenarios. Since the beginning in 2013 it became a growing archive with currently over 300 videos of 30 artists from Austria, Canada, China, Germany, Hong Kong, Mexico, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland and USA. The videos are used in the field of art education and art research; in 2015 a first exhibition with material from MOA was installed in Hong Kong at the Connecting Space, a second will follow at the 3rd Ural Industrial Biennale of contemporary art in Ekaterinburg (Ru).
Producer Season 1:
University of Cologne, Institute of Art & Art Theory
Producer Season 2:
Zurich University of the Arts, Connecting Spaces – Documents #5
Producer Season 3:
University of Cologne, Institute of Art & Art Theory
Producer Season 4:
Ural Industrial Biennial Of Contemporary Art, Ekaterinburg
Producer Season 5:
Zurich University of the Arts
Executive Producers:
Torsten Meyer, Johannes M. Hedinger, Konstanze Schuetze
Series Directors:
Johannes M. Hedinger, Konstanze Schuetze
Editors:
Paul Barsch, Wolfram Eggebrecht
Logo and Graphic Design:
Paul Barsch
Sound Logo:
Jonas Himmel
Website:
Timo Meisel
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For a short overview about the upcoming Season 5 watch the extended Trailer
First series with artists interviews from Germany, Switzerland, Russia and USA. Featured artists (in alphabetical order): Julius von Bismarck/Julian Charriere, Veronika Georgieva, Johannes M. Hedinger, Jan Holtmann, Inges Idee, Mischa Kuball, Heinrich Lüber, Peter Piller and Milo Rau.
The new series with 10 artists from China and Hong Kong is online! Featured artists (in alphabetical order): Kung Chi-Shing, Lee Chun Fung, Shiyu Gao, Kit Hung, Jaffa Lam, Desmond Leung, Isaac Leung, Li Xiaofei, Ellen Pau and Angela Su.
Exhibition with artists and clips from „Methods of Arts“, including original artworks by Kung Chi-Shing, Lee Chun Fung, Shiyu Gao, Kit Hung, Jaffa Lam, Desmond Leung, Isaac Leung, Li Xiaofei, Ellen Pau, Angela Su. Curators: Johannes M. Hedinger and Nuria Krämer. March15. – 20.2015; Opening: 15.03.2015 at 7.30 pm Venue: Connecting Space Hong Kong, 18-20 Fort Street, North Point, Hong Kong. www.connectingspaces.ch
Photo documentation of the exhibition
Exhibition booklet (download)
Photo documentation of the opening performance
Video documentation of the opening performance
METHODS OF ART will be part of the 3rd Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art „MOBILIZATION“. A new series of interviews will be produced with local russian artists and their videos will be shown along with original works as part of the main exhibition „No Real Body“ curated by Li Zhenhua. Sept. 9. – Nov 10. 2015 @ Hotel Iset, Yekaterinburg (Russia)
Exhibition with artists and clips from „Methods of Arts“, including original artworks by Natalia Pastukhova, Ekaterina Poedinchikova, Vladimir Seleznev, Where Dogs Run, Zlye and a photo series by Com&Com.
Curated by Com&Com (Hedinger/Gossolt), curatorial Assistant: Anna Litovskikh, main curators of the 3. Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art: Li Zhenhua and Biljana Ciric.
Exhibition: Sept 9 – Nov 11 2015, Opening: Sept 9, venue: Iset Hotel, Ekaterinburg, Russia. Web: 3. Ural Biennial
Alexander: My name is Alexander. I position myself mainly as a painter, but I am also a designer. I
work with installations, paint on canvas, work in the street as well. I’ve been looking for the new
forms of interaction recently, in order to organize a new form of presentation.
Stanislav: My name is Stas, Stanislav Rikshkovovets. I do not position myself as a painter, I am a
painter, because I live like this, only like this. I am a representative of the art-group “Zlye” (Evil, Mean).
We are four people, who are based in this city. Unfortunately all four cannot be here, but there are
two of us. From old Slavic, I am not very good in it, but I have information, that the people here used
to have a different alphabet – “bukvitsa”, where the letters were called “az”, “buki”, “vedi”, “glagol”..
They were not only letters, but also images, that’s really important. Each letter had a letter. “Az” for
example, if I am not mistaken, meant ‘the god on the earth”, “the living water – the dead water”,
everything that we know from the fairytales. There was a letter “zelo”. Then, when Russia got
baptized, when different people started to rule in the country, they changed “zelo” into “zemlya”
(earth), because “zelo” meant “evil”. But evil at that times was understood like “something by no one
understood, by no one studied”. Our people didn’t have the notions “good-bad”, “kind-evil”. Nothing
like that existed. The evil was something that was not understood yet. That is how it started. “Zlye” is
the initial letter that was written like that.
Alexander: The group has an impartial judgment. You present an idea and get clear response. It’s
like a critical society. If we do a collective work, we reach a collective result, and everyone
participates in it. Everyone does his part, according to his abilities. At the same time, the canvas are
done individually. We have people in the group who do photography, video, therefore they have
different forms of presentation. They find a suitable place for them, not only the galleries. This part of
life requires you to have everything well, in order to be able to do your favorite thing. Firstly, it seems
to that the group helps to realize your place in the world.
The Street art group „Zlye“ is a creative association consisting of an unspecified number of artists. It exists since the mid-2000s. Previously works by this art-group appeared only in the streets and were very provocative. Recently works can be also seen in exhibition halls and galleries of contemporary art centers. The main motive for creativity of „Zlye“ is a reflection of reality, by artistic allegories.
The interview was conducted on August 19 2015 with Alexander and Stanislav from ZLYE at the NCCA building in Ekaterinburg.
Interviewed by: Johannes M. Hedinger
Filmed and recorded by: Alexander Kiryutin, Alexander Petkov
Edited by: Alexander Kiryutin, Alexander Petkov
Transkript by: Daria Koltushkina
Set producer: Anna Litovskikh
Produced by: 3rd Ural Industrial Biennial Of Contemporary Art Ekaterinburg, Russia
Special thanks to: NCCA, Pro Helvetia, Com&Com