Screening and discussion between Arseniy Zhilyaev and Keti Chukhrov
Friday, January 31st, 2014, at 7 p.m Discussion between Arseniy Zhilyaev and Keti Chukhrov and projection Philosopher and poet, Keti Chukhrov will present her film Love Machines that questions today’s shift to a post-humanist philosophy, with its dismissal of the notions of love, mercy, pity, and collective sensitivity as components of an outdated human culture. Program in patnership with Bétonsalon, Centre d’art et de recherche http://www.betonsalon.net/ Love Machines (2013, 42′, English subtitled HD video) Based on the original play by Keti Chukhrov, 2013. Translated into English by Thomas Campbell. Produced by Olga Shirokostup Video editing: Victor Alimpiev, Camera: Sergey Shilovs, Sound: TEAMSOUND STUDIO, subtitles: Vika Marchenkova, Actors: Dina Gatina, Arseniy Zhilyaev, Vera Kuznetsova, Maria Chirkova, Andrey Andrianov and Truppa Rupor group, artistic director: Semen Philipov Keti Chukhrov is an associate professor at the Department of Art Theory and Cultural Studies at the Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow. She has authored numerous texts on art theory, culture, politics, and philosophy, which have appeared in periodicals including: Afterall , Artforum , Brumaria , documenta magazine , e-flux journal , New Literary Review , and Springerin . Her books include: T o Be – To Perform. ‘Theatre’ in Philosophical Criticism of Art (2011); Pound & £ (1999), and two volumes of dramatic poetry: Just Humans (2010) and War of Quantities (2004). Chukhrov’s latest performances include Communion and Elpida and the Greeks , both 2010. She has recently performed her dramatic oratorio Afghan Kuzminki in the Fourth Moscow Biennale, Moscow, 2011; 1st Kyiv Biennale, Kyiv, 2012; and Wiener Festwochen, Vienna, 2013, and presented her video-play Love-machines at the Bergen Triennial of Contemporary Art (curators E. Degot, D. Riff). Chukhrov lives and works in Moscow. Event at 7 pm at Kadist- office