Title: Anomalous Regularities and Digital Performativity: At Home: The Private is Public
A daily videos, a long-term online performance, a final film documenting the process and its evolution.
Every day in my garden I perform the same action: breaking a plate or other piece of dishes, recording it on video. This action creates a visual and acoustic rhythm, where the structure of an everyday ritual is combined with elements of chance and anomaly.
The project touches on the themes of reflective processes, diffusion and anomalous diffusion through repetition, destruction and transformation, revealing new ways of perceiving chance and order in artistic practice, forming a new order out of chaos, modeling the principles of sustainability in changing conditions.
Repetition creates an “archive of destruction”, balancing between the documentary and the performative, the mundane and the ritual, the physical and the digital.
The use of Aesopian language, absurdism, and layering of meanings creates coded messages where things mean more than they seem in the context of total control and censorship in Belarus. The element of absurdity inherent in the repetition and escalation of the project reflects the absurdity of suppression itself - where the ordinary becomes dangerous, and resistance takes unexpected forms.
Volha Maslouskaya - artist and curator
Born in Brest, Belarus. She creates performances, video art, objects, photography and paintings.
Together with Raman Tratsiuk she is a member of Bergamot group - an artistic duo, working with objects, videos and performance.
In 2016 Volha established and curated the independent art space “Sarai” - a real shed in Brest, Belarus, that has been the exhibition place for many artists. In 2022 the project stopped life.
Volha Maslouskaya took part in over 80 exhibitions and festivals, among which – “New Art of Belarus” and “European Performance Art Festival” (Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw), “Public Rituals. Art/Video from Poland” (MUMOK, Vienna), “Hotel De Inmigrantes – Cosmopolitan Stranger” at “Manifesta 9” (Hasselt, Belgium), Manifesta 14 (National Gallery of Kosovo, Prishtina, Kosovo), “Every Day. Art, Solidarity, Resistance” (Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv).
Volha Maslouskaya has curated over 20 projects in Belarus and Poland, including “The 1st Belarus-Poland Festival of Contemporary Art” (Brest, Belarus), “Alien Art” as a part of “Mediations Biennale” (Poznan, Poland).