Dance Performance by artist Valentina Lutsenko

August 15 7:00 PM

Here
it emerged, evaporated from window-paintings, settled on the graph of a function: x-thresholds, y-angles, z-a light-air hole.

There
the lake's edge, having blinked shut an eyelid, pulled out entirely, this time, a girl, and invited her to fry, to huddle, to settle in under melting dreams, not our memories, with someone else's dead aunt at the same dinner table. And then they went swimming.

Valentina Lutsenko is a dance artist, performer, and teacher of movement practices and dance. She graduated from St. Petersburg State University with a degree in Art History and Art Criticism, as well as the "SOTA" program in dance performance (2015). She has created works for the V–A–C Foundation, the G. A. Tovstonogov Bolshoi Drama Theater, the Sdvig Studio, the Radio House, and other institutions and projects. Author of the dance installation "Plyastsy (Dancers)" (2022) and the contemporary dance laboratory within the "Bolshoy Opyt (Big Experience)" project (2022) at the GES-2 House of Culture. She has participated in productions by authors such as Tino Sehgal, Eldad Ben Sasson, Olga Tsvetkova, Konstantin Keichel, and Anton Morozov. Participant in residencies in Russia, Greece, Ireland, Israel, Austria, and Poland.

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Choral exercise for four actresses "Hamletmachine: Assembly Instructions"

Four actresses interact as parts of a single mechanism, exploring the fragmentary nature of Heiner Müller's text. The text becomes an "instruction" that first unites, then destroys their interaction. The exercise focuses on voice, movement, and collective plasticity, revealing the conflict between personal identity and collective machine dynamics. Heiner Müller's play Hamletmachine fits perfectly into the context of an exhibition analyzing the decomposition of language, identity, and time. The works of Edward Kienholz, which inspired the exhibition, reflect fragmentation and dehumanization, where the body becomes an object of violence and social critique. Just as Kienholz used found objects to create artistic commentary, Müller's text becomes a "found instruction" for the deconstruction of a classical narrative.

June 6 and 20
7:00 PM

Public Program for the Exhibition “Bad Script”

The public educational program combines theoretical reflection, collective practices, and performative readings to reveal the main paradox of the exhibition: how art interacts with literary myths while remaining their hostage. Through lectures, a reading group, art mediations, and curatorial tours, participants will explore the disintegration of language, the power of clichés, and the birth of new forms on the ruins of old narratives. The program won't provide answers but will raise questions together with the viewer: if everything around us is text, then who is the author? And is it possible to break free from the script when even rebellion becomes a quotation? One of the program's culminating points will be a performative reading of Alexander Tsikarishvili's play "A Cataract of Prejudice" performed by Pyotr Skvortsov (actor at the Praktika Theater, Inside Theater, Meyerhold Center, musician) with sound accompaniment (Alexander Tsikarishvili).

May 15 – June 29