ICE
multichannel video installation
collab with Andrey Kachalian and Albina Mokhryakova
FADA: House of Madness
The 23rd Annual Watermill Center Summer Benefit & Auction
New York 2016
12-channel video installation, total time 60 min
“ICE” is a visual experiment at the intersection of film and performance. The project refers to the corporality of the human world, the doctrine of Mikhail Bakhtin, quantum physics and theory of relativity, use carnivalesque forms, pagan mysticism, and medieval fleshliness. The production was done in Crimea nudist beaches in the summer 2015.
9 scenes:
Feast, Wedding, Pilgrimage to the Black Hole, Market, Sacrifice, King shits his pants, Initiation Ceremony, Amphitheater, Witches’ Sabbath.
And “electro landscapes”.
creators: Nikita Shokhov, Andrey Kachalian, Albina Mokhryakova
sound: Konstantin Andzhanovskii
performer: Nikita Urievich
assistants: Marina Merkulova, Maria Berghain
production: Anna Evtiugina, Rentaphoto
costumes: Ksenia Plisova
curator: Noah Khoshbin
installation: Chris Green
documentation: John Haas
The 23rd Annual Watermill Center Summer Benefit & Auction | FADA: House of Madness
Watermill Center, NY 2016
