December 24 – 28, 2019
Multimedia Installations
Borey Art Center
St. Petersburg, Liteyny Prospekt 58
Vernissage on December 24 at 18.00
Traditionally, for the thirteenth year in a row, at the end of December, American multimedia artist Anna Frants presents her new project from the “Visionary Dreams” series to the cultural community of Saint Petersburg in the gallery halls.
Anna Frants is an internationally renowned new media artist, as well as a curator and co-founder of Cyland MediaArt Lab and the Cyland Foundation Inc. Anna Frants’ interactive installations have been exhibited at leading art venues worldwide, including the Venice Biennale, St. Petersburg Biennale, Moscow Biennale, and Polish Biennale, the State Hermitage (St. Petersburg, Russia), Pratt Institute (New York, USA), Chelsea Art Museum (New York, USA), Convergence (London, United Kingdom), RSProjects (Berlin, Germany), VAP/Gogolfest (Kyiv, Ukraine), and Transmediale (Berlin, Germany).
The project was realized in collaboration with Cyland MediaArt Lab (Cyland MediaArt Lab). The exhibition will feature 4 media installations.
POINT OF NO RETURN
Looped video. 2019
HOOLIGANS*
Media installation. 2019
Real-time camera, video projection, toys, programming
From the series “Order Breakers”
*Hooligan – derived from the English word hooligan “bully, troublemaker, hooligan,” from an unidentified form. There are three theories of origin: from the name of Irishman Patrick Houlihan, who caused disturbances in the London district of Southwark; from the word hooley (in Irish – “noisy alcohol party”); from the name of the street gang Hooley gang in the northern district of London Islington. The English word appeared in the 1890s and became international in the early 20th century.
POUND OF SALT
Media installation. 2019
From the series “Attraction Power”
“To know a person, you must eat a pound of salt with them.” (Folk wisdom)
ARTISTS’ UNION. STILL LIFE
Media installation. 2019
From the series “Matter of Chance”
“Artists’ Union. Still Life” is a reflection on the law of large numbers. Is it applicable in visual art – to colors in painting, lines in graphics, forms in sculpture, and the fullness of the image in installation? The law of large numbers is a principle describing the result of performing the same experiment many times. According to this law, the collective action of a large number of random factors leads to a result almost independent of chance. For example, in the 16th century, the length of the English foot was determined by royal decree as the arithmetic mean of the foot length of the first 16 people leaving church after Sunday morning prayers. Although the law of large numbers had not yet been formulated, it is the justification for the principle of the arithmetic mean used in determining the length of the foot.