| > CONDENSED RE-ENACTMENT OF STORED IMAGES Performance at the archaeological site of Eleusis, Ouunpo symposium, (GR) 2011 This series of several short videos narrates an interior and very intimate perceptions of different events. It is a kind of inherent visualisation, re-enacted to the audience. The screening is accompanied by a few words as guideline to the work, as poetic extemporization on a visual theme. A performer interprets these words; just as in the past films were accompanied by a pianist. Condensed re-enactment of stored images is a series of very short video animations (that last between 20” and 60”), which recall particular moments, for example 40” of “Swimming in the Pacific. Cold water” or “Irritating Material” etc. All of them represent the Phosphene phenomenon (seeing with closed eyes), also known as “the prisoner’s cinema”. | > DO WE NEED OURSELVES? Bureaucrats as a resourceful force for modernization with the participation of Alexander Auzan, performed at the PERMM Museum, Perm (RU) This performance consists of scientific lectures, held by well-known Russian economist and the chairman of the Institute of Contemporary Development, professor of the Department of Applied Institutional Economics of Moscow State University; President of the National Planning Institute (NPI) for the ‘Civil Contract’ project and member of the President's Council for Modernization and Technology Development - Mr Alexander Auzan. Lecture topic: A certain antagonism between the museum and the administration of the town might be resolved by this meeting. The performance-action in this case is almost a course of ‘upgrade qualifications’ for members of the city administration, who had already (deliberately or accidentally) been involved in the challenging Permm Museum project. This scientific reading continues the Russian/Soviet traditions of scientific-popular activities in cultural provincial centres. The stage is set like a warehouse for fruit and vegetables. Audience: Members of the Perm City Council only This lecture was broadcast to the museum’s other halls for a larger audience. | > AFTER J.G. BALLARD_ re-enactment of a performance with the participation of Stephen Whitmarsh First performed in: OuUnPo and VISION FORUM, RongWrong artspace_ Amsterdam_ 2010 In the late Sixties, JG Ballard gave a performance at the ICA in London. He was asked to read some excerpts from his books. But instead he arranged a particular event. Apparently it’s difficult nowadays to get excited about such interventions as arranging for a woman – Euphoria Tiliss- to perform a striptease to the reading of a scientific paper. This almost forgotten happening (in fact we have very few testimonies of it) by the sci-fi writer was one of the starting points of the process of visualization of scientific achievements in modern society. This theme is unbelievably important at a time when we can affirm with sustained arguments that science reveals the mechanism of relations and reactions within society. That at the basis of all social ideas, whether they took hold or were rejected, are physiological and neurological, almost primordial, motivations, which often do not submit to our control. The main reason for wanting to perform this re-enactment is the continuing relevance of JG Ballard’s happening, as well as its affinity to my research interests. Perhaps at this precise moment the achievements of science are being transferred into the private sphere, to a human scale as still-primordial human consciousness, discarding everything redundant in order to give specific artistic form to communication, even when that communication is nearly impossible or entirely abstract. | > DISOBEDIENCE OF A SOLID MASS Performance at the Museum of Yugoslav History Belgrade, Serbia 25th March 2011 A small object arrived in Belgrade at the Museum of Yugoslav History. This object was a cobblestone stolen from paving in Dvorzovaja square in St. Petersburg (Russia), the place where the October Revolution started. This original cobblestone was a witness to that night of 25th October 1917. Generally, cobblestones were a much loved weapon in street battles, as well as being the symbol of riot and disagreement. With each passing year, the cobblestones lose their symbolic and rebellious significance, ceding to more sophisticated weapons. They become mere stones, souvenirs, archaeological treasures, objects useful in domestic care, etc.