tajiks-art Performance at Solianka

In Moscow's club "Solianka," the art project "We Want Your Oil" is launching, representing a sharp social satire and criticism of the capital's cultural environment according to its participants. In addition to the immediate scandal, figures from various humanitarian spheres will be involved in the project.

The project will kick off with a performance by the group "tadjiks-art." They are anonymous artists who hire Tajiks to replicate performances of mega-stars for small money. They emerged on the internet earlier this year, called "Weeds," made a lot of noise, wrote a letter to the organizers of the Kandinsky Award ceremony offering their services, but so far no one has seen what they do. Now there is a chance to get to know them better. The first "victim" of the weeds will be Marina Abramovic's work "Balkan Baroque." The image of a Tajik girl washing bones, singing national-patriotic songs in her native language, will become a symbol of the social status of ethnic minorities in modern Russia.

The participants of the action intend to introduce the uninitiated layman to the classic performance as a genre. But that is not the ultimate goal. The most important thing is to raise questions about important social issues that have arisen in the last decade and to catalyze the formation of an attitude towards them not only on the emotional level but also in terms of project logic. It includes the exploitation of cheap labor of ethnic minorities, inadequate attitude towards migration policy, and as a result, the "fascization" of society. The choice of the project venue is not random.

The club "Solianka" takes the project "We Want Your Oil" out of the closed circle of the capital's art community. The space of the nightclub allows articulating ideas and posing questions as clearly and simply as possible. When you showcase such a project in a museum or gallery, its meaning gets blurred, becoming academic, elitist. The respect that a viewer experiences in a museum or even a commercial gallery does not allow to get to the essence of a simple thought, a clear message, to break down established conventions and just have a conversation with the visitor. And this, besides oil, is what the project authors aim to achieve.

Wednesday, April 29
22:00
Solianka, 11