"OM" - "AUM" / sculpture
05.24.2006 year, the city of Kiev, Mount Detinka, artist Konovalov Igor.(The last object that dissolves FGE in cosmic sound).Here on this page we end the ten-year history of the “Fictitious Expedition Gallery”. After the successful construction of the Trinity vandal resistant facility (which still exists and is functioning), I wanted to put an end to a large-scale project outside the institutional space - the FGE mobile gallery.
Ten years of "Odyssey" swimming I personally have been given great experience in observing society and its interaction with the sudden appearance of something that you can react to as you like. I have already begun to see the appearance of analogues and appeals by young people to revolutionary mobile galleries, for example, in the publication “Claustrophobia of Artists / Mobile Galleries” at that time on the Prose website (1), but I prefer evolution rather than revolution. Of course, this project could be continued all my life, but I already saw in a human manifestation - monotony, which was recorded by me in a large number of photos, videos, texts. Therefore, I decided to land.
Since the forms of manifestation were different, but the main ones were the construction of objects on the hills, I decided to finish with a concrete form on the verge of extinction into space, like a drop dissolving in water in the most suitable place. Three important points: form, place and time.
I'll start with the form. The fact is that when you start thinking outside of institutional categories, you understand that there is no censorship at all. Today, unlike the Soviet review (where party apparatchiks followed the ideology before publishing), private people are already tracking by type: commercial, taste, political and religious aspects, the latter are especially threatened from scandal to the pogrom of the institution.
I was then interested in all kinds of utopias and everything related to pseudoscience. Plato in the dialogue “Critias” described the island of Atlantis, where Poseidon surrounded him with three water and two land rings for protection. When I drew this ring structure in the 3D program, I saw that from above it reminded me of a frozen drop with the sacred sound of Om / Aum, which suggests the completion of FGE in dissolution. Although the associations may be different: a solar sign, a mandala, a target, a wheel, a scene, etc.
Definition of a place. Since my hobbies were not related to academic science, on the Internet I found information about the astrological center of the city of Kiev, it turned out to be Mount Detinka, towering in the middle of the tract Gonchary - Kozhemyaki (2). In this astrological center there were many intersections of lines, so it was believed that it was dangerous to live there, since energy was unstable. For centuries, nothing was built on Mount Detinka. For me, everything just converged at this zero point of the center for the separation of zodiac signs, where I decided to finish the project.
And finally, the time that I chose: according to the horoscope was a good day under the sign 1, the planet is the Sun. And indeed, everything went like clockwork. I didn’t have enough working hands, and a dozen or two people wishing to help spent the night on the mountain, naturally for gratitude. Among them were those who saw in this building “archeofuturism” - a mindset according to which the future will again turn to the values of their ancestors (3).
In general, this interweaving of everything was marked by sound - OM / AUM.
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(1) “I suppose it would be wise to come to the following health suggestions:• the artist can get rid of intermediaries;• the artist can avoid parties of the elite;• the artist may stop having sex with gallery owners;• the artist can leave the static galleries, not wanting to sour in the boxes;There is nothing more correct and inspiring than the aesthetic jihad against static galleries, the sacred claustrophobia of the poet. Their walls should be destroyed in order to turn the city into a gallery without walls, a territory of direct contact with the public. "Bypass" do not shoot. They shoot right at the heart, eyes, ears and minds.Mobile gallery- Mobile gallery has no bosses;
- Mobile gallery has no address;
- Exhibitions of the mobile gallery arise spontaneously, wander and move to different places;
- Mobile gallery does not belong to anyone, but belongs to everyone "...
(2) After the Zodiac circle is oriented to the cardinal points, there is only one problem - to find its center on the ground. In other words, find the astrological center of the city. The problem is complex, but solvable. After a thorough analysis of the map of Kiev, Mount Detinka was identified as the center of the zodiac circle, towering in the middle of the Gonchary tract - Kozhemyaki.
(3) The term "archeofuturism" ("L'Archeofuturisme", 1998) was the first to use the modern French thinker Guillaume Fay. This is a synthesis of ancient local mythologies with global information strategies. In place of the same and boring pop-music everywhere in different regions suddenly appear unique folk groups, neo-ethnic movements and historical reconstruction. These projects do not strive for a literal “revival” of some ancient past - usually they are in harmony with modern techno-aesthetics, giving it a “meta-historic” sound. And it is characteristic that the main vehicles of this trend are not some dull conservatives fixated on “preserving the old culture,” but it is creative young people who are striving to create a new image of their land.