katya ev
(ekaterina vasilyeva)

view of the show «Leaving Tomorrow», Winzavod Art Center, Moscow, October - December 2015, curated by Ivan Isaev

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The installation  I Giorgio Agamben fries an egg I (D6)  is composed of the black square space 5 x 6 meters which includes: the video on plasma screen, the deep freeze, the text reflected in the mirror, two chess figures (pawn and queen), the formula hand-written with chalk on the wall, and the quote from James Joyce "Finnigans Wake", printed on the wall that contains Humpty Dumpty

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Katya and Hanna undertook the idea of friyng the egg with Giorgio Agamben as a logic-alchemic problem, as a game and an adventure which would be a metaphorical projection of adventures of Alice in ‘Alice through the looking glass’’ by Lewis Carrol.

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Ekaterina and Hanna undertook the idea of frying the egg with Giorgio Agamben as a logic-alchemic problem, as a game and an adventure which would be a metaphorical projection of adventures of Alice in «Alice through the looking glass» by Lewis Carrol.

 

The eleven moves of Alice through the chessboard universe where she meets Humpty Dumpty at d6 square, were adopted as a metaphor for interaction with reality, so that this binary dimension mediates events of different systems and at the same timecreates space for reflection.

The game starts from the moment when the hero utters his will to play

and to transform. It is only after this utterance he is to make a move.

It implies pre-existing rules and codes, but at the same time its unfol- ding is full of extemporary events, as perceived by the hero. It is of the nature of an alchemic process, where the knowledge of the procedure foreshadows the way, but the inner peripeteias elude predetermined limits. The game is a way of a hero, through peripeties to his arcane self, that already exists in him from the beginning, but needs a way to be accomplished to reveal itself, as a Pawn that already contains a poten- tiality of a Queen but needs to go through a game to accomplish itself. ‘

 

Alice through the looking glass’ is a metaphor which diffuses its semantic repertoire of images on the structure and the events of the way, where the Wood without Names is an extralinguistic universe, the Shop with Vanishing Objects is an inconceivability of empirical world, Humpty Dumpty is a trickster and a toon who eludes the power of language.

 

The d6 square is not merely a spacial designation, but a system of events. It could arrange itself in a multitude of specific ways during the whole period when the hero is passing through it. According to the Humpty Dumpty law of thermodynamics, the more the number of the ways this system may be arranged, the more the entropy, and at some point, when the actual irreparable event happens, the level of disorder increases to such a state, where the hero is to make the next move.

 

Within the black space of a chess square a formula, letters, speech exist as different modes of being of an utterance «Agamben fries an egg».