The catalogue “Field Studies: public art of Russian, Scandinavian and Finnish artists in St.Petersburg” covering 2 years long public art program organized by National Centre for Contemporary Art is released. I made 4 projects for “Field Studies” all in all. Just got my copy of the catalogue. Looks nice. Funny that both introductory articles written by the director of NCCA, St.Petersburg branch, Marina Koldobskaya and me happened to be critical. Good that sometimes art centres’ directors can allow (and write) texts in catalogues that are reflective – not only promoting.
Artists who participated in the program:
Victor Remishevsky (RU), Viktoria Ilyushkina (RU), Pavel Shugurov (RU), Lars Arrhenius (SE), Anne-Brit Rage and Gunnhild Bakke (NO)
and my part of work for this program was with:
Tomas Nygren (SE) for Art Centre Pushkinskaya-10, Annee Olofsson (SE) for “Bookvoed”, Ann Rosen (SE) for people on the street and a video program “Commercial Break” for MEGA Dybenko shop (St.Petersburg): Lars Siltberg (SE), Gustav Sparr (SE), Lotte Konow Lund (NO), Saara Ekström (FI), Pirjetta Brander (FI), Tea Makipaa (FI), Alexandra Mitlyanskaya (RU), Anna Kolosova (RU), Hanna Maria Anttila (FI), Xenia Peretrukhina (RU), Hannu Karjalainen (FI).
Field Studies
December 28, 2007 by Anja Kharkina
Hope the catalogue is in the Konstfack Library. It would be good to hear more about your curatorial approach to public art and to the publication.
the catalogue is not yet there but I hope to give it to Konstfack library when I will have some more copies. Now I have only one
But I heard that more of them arrived to FilmForm. And if our library will be interested to include this catalogue into its catalogue.
Public art in Russia is a special adventure. I like introductory article of the director of The National Center of Contemporary Art about this issue.