Fireworks and Gunpowder, 2020

The artwork pledge

• AFFORDABLE AND CLEAN ENERGY
• INDUSTRY, INNOVATION, AND INFRASTRUCTURE
• SUSTAINABLE CITIES AND COMMUNITIES
• RESPONSIBLE CONSUMPTION AND PRODUCTION
• PEACE, JUSTICE, AND STRONG INSTITUTIONS

Tags

• Architecture
• Arts and Politics
• Assemblage
• Claude Monet
• Collective Memory
• Communism
• Found Objects
• Gordon Matta-Clark
• Impressionism
• Media
• Mixed Media
• Moscow
• Photography
• Post-Soviet
• Power Structure
• Russia
• Sculpture 3D
• Social
• Social sculpture
• Soviet Union (USSR)

About this artwork

Fireworks and Gunpowder (initially, an installation and performance) is based on a card game, titled “Collection”, which the CIA uses to train their employees in order to apply different intelligence tactics in addressing the pressing crises of today. In turn, Collection was developed on the concept of Pandemic board game when the players use combined effort to fight deadly viruses that threaten to spread all over the world. Likewise, Fireworks and Gunpowder initiates an act of mutual crisis management and urges players to team up and raise the question of how we can coexist in the crisis of volatility and form new power structures in our current “medianaturecultural” world order. In order to achieve a high level of objectivity, Savchenkov assigns stark diversity to the game’s roles — both human (“the elsewhere” type) and non-human (such as an ocean, a bone, sand, and artificial intelligence)—thus forming trans-species alliances that are more likely to produce unbiased scenarios to solve critical confrontations facing the world today. Using game mechanics, Fireworks and Gunpowder recreates a cooperative action in a turbulent world that has descended into the mist of hybrid war. (Vika Dushkina)

Kirill works with various media including mediated sculpture, installation, performance and sound. His artistic practice raises the questions of hidden power and violence formations, new traumas acquired within production, experience, power and culture. The works highlight the proxy-metabolism of technology, informational autocracy and media weaponization.

More artworks by Kirill Savchenkov

• Kirill Savchenkov full down garden of purple anxiety / threat multiplier nothing is hidden from its heat / bandwidth needs of fingertips / quantum supremacy mimics bees, 2020 Osnova Gallery €2,500
• Kirill Savchenkov Knowledge Editing Division, 2017 Osnova Gallery €5,500
• Kirill Savchenkov say you remember me a loophole in the zones of active hostilities / I would have little luck / the realm of maybe enemy / If I stayed timeless time, 2020 Osnova Gallery €2,500
• Kirill Savchenkov the effect of a moonshine / the limits of sensor automation / proximity is dangerous yet information-rich / but I’m sitting inside there, 2020 Osnova Gallery €2,500

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