Aleksei Taruts
re-spawn, exactly, if not you then who
16 December 2016
Re-spawn is a gaming term used to describe the action of a human player, bot or item repeatedly coming back to life and re-entering the game after being killed or destroy. In the context of works displayed by the artist, the title re-spawn, exactly, if not you, then who implies a rhetorical question or rather a magic incantation, addressed to the visitors, when their seeming freedom of self-expression turns out to be a result of an effective infrastructure of management. In his series of works , Taruts presents shows the exhibition space, which in a mysterious way or as a result of poor organization is disappointing its visitors.
Aleksei Taruts: «Re-spawn, exactly, if not you then who» consists of two corresponding locations. Firstly, the minute long promo video for the show is embedded at the gallery website and secondly there are four mixed media color prints in the gallery itself. The video was also shot in the gallery during its renovation. In this project I am using the two levels of communication to emphasize the instability of today's omnipresent cyber space, in which virtual and physical topography are inseparable. The sequence of prints in the gallery can be interpreted as a graphic novel, that tells the story of exhibition visitors being bored, alienated within the exhibition space.
At the opening we played the «Alien» OST very loud to create the environment of a fictitious suspense
re-spawn, exactly, if not you then who
16 December 2016
Re-spawn is a gaming term used to describe the action of a human player, bot or item repeatedly coming back to life and re-entering the game after being killed or destroy. In the context of works displayed by the artist, the title re-spawn, exactly, if not you, then who implies a rhetorical question or rather a magic incantation, addressed to the visitors, when their seeming freedom of self-expression turns out to be a result of an effective infrastructure of management. In his series of works , Taruts presents shows the exhibition space, which in a mysterious way or as a result of poor organization is disappointing its visitors.
Aleksei Taruts: «Re-spawn, exactly, if not you then who» consists of two corresponding locations. Firstly, the minute long promo video for the show is embedded at the gallery website and secondly there are four mixed media color prints in the gallery itself. The video was also shot in the gallery during its renovation. In this project I am using the two levels of communication to emphasize the instability of today's omnipresent cyber space, in which virtual and physical topography are inseparable. The sequence of prints in the gallery can be interpreted as a graphic novel, that tells the story of exhibition visitors being bored, alienated within the exhibition space.
At the opening we played the «Alien» OST very loud to create the environment of a fictitious suspense
