300 km North of Kazakhstan to the East of the Ural Mountains on the path-way to Siberia, Yekaterinburg is home to the Ural Industrial Biennale of Contemporary Art, which in 2015 was held in a constructivist apartment building and hotel that was once part of a Chekist (KGB) town. Artist Lisa Radford, with Fayen d’Evie, will offer an introduction to the city through the eyes of artists, musicians, theatre makers, students and thinkers following FOOT-NOTES / ПРИМЕЧАНИЯ, a project that saw them travelling back and forth between Melbourne and Yekaterinburg via plane, email, history and people.
Enjoy a complimentary cocktail inspired by Yekaterinburg, created by The Melbourne Gin Company from 5pm. Talk from 6pm.
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Lisa Radford is an artist who writes and teaches; was previously a member of the collective DAMP and artist lead space TCB artinc. and is currently working in the Painting Department at the Victorian College of the Arts. Lisa’s practice explores the shared space between images, place and people through writing, editing, exhibition making and education using conversation and correspondence as a way of enacting politics through friendship and de-centralised collectivity.
Fayen d’Evie is an artist and writer based in rural Victoria, and the founder of 3-ply, which focuses on publication, writing, editing and translation as an extension of art practice.
About FOOT-NOTES / ПРИМЕЧАНИЯ:
A Blood Church that marks the site where Tsar Nicholas and his family were executed, a recording studio in what was once a soviet bunker, a cemetery of underworld figures demarcating an entry into capitalism, home-made vodka and a dinner with guests spanning 4 generations, a dérive designed by desire… FOOT-NOTES / ПРИМЕЧАНИЯ is a performative publication designed by Lisa Radford, Liang Luscombe and Fayen d’Evie in response to the question of what might constitute a biennale catalogue and the theme of ‘mobilisation’. Presented at the 3rd Ural Industrial Biennial, Yekaterinburg, Russia between September 9 and November 10, 2015.
FOOT-NOTES / ПРИМЕЧАНИЯ was kindly supported by The Copyright Agency Career Fund, The Victorian College of the Arts (University of Melbourne), Gertrude Contemporary, NAVA, The Willinghams and the Ian Potter Trust. FOOT-NOTES / ПРИМЕЧАНИЯ was presented as part of the The 3rd Ural Industrial Biennale of Contemporary Art, Yekaterinburg 2015
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