teaser of the performance Petr & Fyodor: 24-hours performance talk by Igor Chernyshov
Performance conversation
24-25 November, 2015
Hours performed: 24
Solyanka State Gallery, Moscow
Curated by Daria Demekhina, Anna Shpilko
On November 24th at 8pm Piotr Bystrov and Fyodor Pavlov-Andreevich, the two mid career Russian performance artists, have been doing a 24h long performance - they were seated at Solyanka State Gallery foyer and talked to each other non stop around the clock with no interval switching to a new theme every hour and having a new referee every 60 min (the 24 referees will be Russia's top curators, museum directors, art critics and historians). The referee held the bell and marked the transition progress throughout the talk - whenever they felt one of the interlocuteurs is going wrong/boring/lost, the bell rang, and the other artist started talking. This performance became a final stage of The Artist Is Hidden: a biennial group show of Russian live art as a special project of the 6th Moscow Biennale of contemporary art.
Time: 8 a.m. – 9 a.m.
Arbitrator: Sergei Popov, owner of Pov/off/art gallery, art dealer, arts critic
Theme: The city and the country
Time: 9 a.m. – 10 a.m.
Arbitrator: Valentin Dyakonov, arts critic
Theme: Sex
Time: 10 a.m. – 11 a.m.
Arbitrator: Katya Bochavar, architect, artist
Theme: Sleep
Time: 11 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Arbitrator: Maksim Ilyukhin, performance artist
Theme: Career
Time: 12 p.m. – 1 p.m.
Arbitrator: Margarita Osepyan, curator
Theme: Envy and Jealousy
Time: 1 p.m. – 2 p.m.
Arbitrator: Lina Krasnyanskaya, curator
Theme: Literature
Time: 2 p.m. – 3 p.m.
Arbitrator: Mikhail Sidlin, arts critic, curator
Theme: Dreams
Time: 3 p.m. – 4 p.m.
Arbitrator: Antonio Geusa, curator
Theme: Life of the body
Time: 4 p.m. – 5 p.m.
Arbitrator: Evgenia Kikodze, arts critic, curator
Theme: Energy
Time: 5 p.m. – 6 p.m.
Arbitrator: Anatoliy Osmolovskiy, artist, curator
Theme: Anatoliy Osmolovskiy
Time: 6 p.m. – 7 p.m.
Arbitrator: Vitaliy Patsukov, arts critic
Theme: A problem of the loss of the memory
Time: 7 p.m. – 8 p.m.
Arbitrator: Sasha Frolova, artist
Theme: Miracles
Themes / Arbitrators
24 Nov
Time: 8 p.m – 9 p.m
Arbitrator: Karen Sarkissov, philosopher, theorist of culture
Theme: Freedom
Time: 9 p.m. – 10 p.m.
Arbitrator: Natalya Goncharova, curator, arts critic
Theme: Conflict
Time: 10 p.m. – 11 p.m
Arbitrator: Daria Demekhina, philosopher, curator
Theme: Minorities
Time: 11 p. m. – 12.00 a.m.
Arbitrator: Lisa Morozova, performance artist
Theme: Childhood
25 Nov
Time: 12 a.m. – 1 a.m.
Arbitrator: Nikolay Palazhchenko, art manager, arts critic
Theme: Politics
Time: 1 a.m. – 2 a.m.
Arbitrator: Aleksey Sosna, poet
Theme: Religion
Time: 2 a.m. – 3 a.m.
Arbitrator: Yulia Grachikova, curator, arts critic
Theme: Sacral
Time: 3 a.m. – 4 a.m.
Arbitrator: Maria Antonyan, performance studies scholar
Theme: Women
Time: 4 a.m. – 5 a.m.
Arbitrator: Sasha Portyannikova, choreographer, performance artist
Theme: Soul
Time: 5 a.m. – 6 a.m.
Arbitrator: Maria Rudenko, curator
Theme: Rhethoric
Time: 6 a.m. – 7 a.m.
Arbitrator: Andrey Erofeev, one of the most well-known Russian curators, arts critic
Theme: The language of actual art
Time: 7 a.m. – 8 a.m.
Arbitrator: Sergey (Pakhom) Pakhomov, underground actor, script writer musician
Theme: Groin area
by Anna Shpilko, Igor Chernyshov