Political as Personal

In her web-performance Political as Personal Olga Zhitlina tries to engage random bored, lonely, apathetic users of Chat Roulet in political discussion by showing them documentation of political actions recorded on her cell.

Helsinki, Cable Gallery, 7 November 2012

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Screen Shot протесты 2011

 

 

 

 

АГЕНТСТВО УТОПИЧЕСКИХ НОВОСТЕЙ // THE UTOPIAN NEWS AGENCY

АГЕНТСТВО УТОПИЧЕСКИХ НОВОСТЕЙ
Новости, какими они могли бы быть!

// UTOPIAN NEWS AGENCY
News the Way It Could Be!

Mass-media project, March 2012 – on-goingolga kulturkontakt Kopie

2012, Nizhniy Novgorod.

photo by Alejandro Ramirez

utopian news agency vienna
Utopian News Agency office opens in the center of Vienna! in collaboration with Jenny Sleif, Cristoph Fischer, Tajudin Taraki and Natalya Winogradowa at Kulturkontakt

 

The Utopian News Agency is a series of utopian articles with collaged photos and videos being published at www.openspace.ru, colta.ru, a popular website about culture, Novaya Gazeta, La Stampa and etc. These articles-mistifications aim not only to subvert the current order of things in contemporary Russia but to propose an alternative vision of such issues as national cultural politics, education, the concept of the police, the rise of nationalism, urban planning and etc…

http://www.colta.ru/articles/art/2344

http://www.lastampa.it/2013/10/04/edizioni/biella/le-parole-si-ribellano-alla-xenofobia-a-cittadellarte-il-progetto-di-unartista-russa-y4vMBe588WQ71HHcFnPkeM/pagina.html

http://www.art-initiatives.org/?p=10642

http://www.colta.ru/docs/18341

http://novayagazeta-nn.ru/2012/255/novosti-kakimi-oni-mogli-by-byt-osobyi-vypusk.html

http://www.openspace.ru/art/projects/35987/details/37438/?expand=yes#expand

http://www.openspace.ru/art/projects/35987/details/35988/?expand=yes#expand

http://os.colta.ru/art/projects/35987/details/38021/?expand=yes#expand