Live Stream

Live Stream which is thought to have been documentary footage, refers to the topic of constructing reality and actualizes the question of the meaning of an image in the contemporary visual age.

According to the story, men dressed in military uniform, which resembles the Red Army clothes, perform a dance after a long preparation. The group’s choreography is disrupted by random people who cross the corridor past the dancers. Focusing on people’s reactions to the dance of the Red Army soldiers, the artists emphasize that the image has been separated from the content today. For instance, people react to the dance of the Red Army soldiers in the same way as if it was a dance of prehistoric tribal conquerors. The corridor chosen for filming starts to resemble a zone where transgression happens, where history encounters the present, reality encounters fiction, and image encounters matter. In this transitory situation, the artists ask, how do we assess the quality, meaning and functions of a moving picture today? What is left of reality in it?

Single-screen looped video installation, color, sound, duration: 17 min
Main Prize, PinchukArtCentre Prize 2020      
©Yarema&Himey
Produced by Pinchuk Art Centre, Radar Films  
2020
Exhibition view at PinchukArtCentre Prize 2020,. Photo: Maksym Bilousov
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