Andrey Kachalyan
2021Лед
Andrey Kachalyan, Albina Mokhryakova
A visual work at the intersection of cinema and performance, game and documentary approach. The project refers to the corporeality of human nature, the teachings of Mikhail Bakhtin about the carnival culture of the Middle Ages, quantum physics and the theory of relativity. Filming took place in the summer and autumn of 2015 on the wild beaches of the Crimea, where there has long been a culture of seasonal nudist settlements. Residents of these settlements voluntarily became participants in the project.
Ice
Академия
Andrey Kachalyan
A short review of one day in the life of young artists, mostly women, from different countries, students at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. Documentary episodes are interspersed with scenes, that mimic everyday life, and with the excerpts from the work by Sabina Spielrein, the first female psychoanalyst. What happens to life when nothing is happening, and what is the motivation of young artists, but already not so young people, to make art? The work continues the theme of the video “Interview” (2013), in which the author asked this questions to himself.
Academy
Интервью
Andrey Kachalyan
The film "Interview" focuses on the experience of the author's failure. Work begins as a document about the successful public people, entrepreneurs and businessmen. Then it rests on the impossibility of the story from a professional point of view (production problems and the issue of professional fitness author), and gradually comes to a reflection above the difficulties of socialization of the young artist. Trying to apply existing criteria of success to their own practice, or to somehow borrow from outside the strategies of successful behavior, fails. The author manifests inability to meet his own needs, while remaining within the art system.
Interview