Artist Talk Artistic Practices AntigonStuff
On April 16 at 16.00 within the framework of the Oksana - AntiGonna project: on the 13th there will be a meeting with the AntiGonna artist and the curator of the MSIO Andrey Siguntsov. Focus of Conversation: AntigonStuff Artistic Practices. This is the first online event within the project. The artist will show video and photo documentation, tell about the history and process of creating the project “Endless Case History. Kiev porn horrors ". He will demonstrate backstage materials of the projects "The Temptation of the Holy Draftsman", "Rave on the Bones" and many others. Also, the audience will be shown "forbidden" fragments of filming from the projects "Andrei Andreev" and "Wow people!" For the first time, viewers will be able to get acquainted with the works created in collaboration with Alina Yakubenko, Dobrynya Ivanov, Dasha Veshtak, as well as the short film "Zarosli". This art-porn film was shot with the participation of the OKCANAS team (together with director Oksana Kazmina) and for the first time presented Ukraine at the "12th Berlin International Porn Festival in 2017". AntiGonna will also show works that were not included in the project, teasers for their future films, tell viewers about the directions and methods of their work. AntiGonna works with video art and performance mediums, expanding them with fictional and documentary short films, virtual reality and music videos, which the artist calls “the experimental exploration of fear, sex and death”. >> My work resembles rituals that tame the horror of life, giving it sham forms << Participation is free. ****AntiGonna was born in 1986 in Vinnytsia. Lives and works in Kiev, Odessa and Warsaw. Uses media performance, video art and virtual reality. She studied at the faculty of painting of the Odessa Art School named after I. M.B. Grekova. In 2016, together with the photographer and videographer Andrey Boyko, he starts the project “Endless Case History. Kiev porn horrors (part 1). FAILURE ". Since 2016, she has been participating in performances by Mikhail Koptev's Wild Orchid Theater of Provocative Fashion. Participant of such queer festivals and exhibition projects as: Vienna PFFV Queere Festival Vienna, Austria (2020), Southern Maltings - 5 Minute Film Festival South Maltings, UK (2020), 4th International Horror Festival. Mostra Espantomania "Sao Paulo, Brazil (2019)," Love, Lust & Fury "Klaipeda, Lithuania (2019)," Audience Awards "New York, USA, (2019)," RabarBar Queer Festival ", Krakow, Warsaw, Poland (2019), “POMADA. Eden 8 "Warsaw, Poland (2018)," 12th Internationale Berlin Porn Festival "Berlin, Germany (2017), nominee for the PinchukArtCentre Prize 2020 Kiev, Ukraine (2020), group exhibitions" FEAR "Arsenal Gallery Bialystok, Poland (2020), "Naughty Bodies" Kmitovsky Museum of Fine Arts named after Bukhanchuk, Kmitov, Ukraine (2019).
