Russian Online Tube
Video installation, media painting, 2008-2011

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Series of very slow paced (on the edge of still images) video projections situated in space (there is also a screening version).
After Russian invasion into Georgia in 2008 I got multimedia feed addicted, as well I dived into Russian segment of Youtube. At that moment its ecosystem as well as algorithms were not that well developed and whatever video you started to watch it would immer quickly lead you through recommended videos to videos of violence or existential suffering and other Russian forms of dasein. I started to collect that videos and after reworked them into this project under the influence of German Neue Sachlichkeit artists, depicting idea of Russia being provider of violence and suffer lifestyle visuality via virtual tube, same as it provides gas to Europe via physical tube. This project embraced my feelings of the moment as well as terrified fear of incoming catastrophe.