This redemption can come in a positive or negative form, upward or downward – as we can all disappear into something larger or smaller: religion. drugs, mass events, love, sex, extreme sports, hypnosis etc.

The series how to disappear completely explores this human phenomenon in two different ways. Use the CATEGORIES to navigate.

THE POEMS: staged and non-staged photography and video. Influenced by my ongoing research on the topic. They stand for themselves like poems. Light is not only used as the basic means of photography but as a central symbolic subject.

THE SCHOOLS: video-installations and objects that explore one of the many ways to lose yourself. I call them schools.

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…..2011…..
DEC12 – 18:”3rd MADATAC Mostra”, Matadero & Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid /Spain
DEC 10 – 12: “Material Conversion”, Grimm Museum, Berlin /Germany
OCT 25: “Oracle Nite“, MAK – Museum für angewandte und Gegenwartskunst, Vienna / Austria (as BORIS+NATASCHA)
JUL 17 – AUG 28: “What Happened to God?”, ACC, Weimar / Germany
JUL 16 – AUG 27: “Video Row”, Torrance Art Museum, California / USA
JUN13 – JUL 3: “Expanded Cinema”, Moscow Museum of Modern Art / Russia
JUN 2: “2nd Internet Pavillion for the Venice Biennale“, Accademia di Belle Arti, Venezia / Italy
MAY 13 – AUG 21: “Fantômes & Cauchemars“, L’Historial & Espace Culturel / Galerie François Mitterand, Beauvais / France (as BORIS+NATASCHA)
APRIL 8-9: “FestArte VideoArt Festival”, Teatro delle Muse, Ancona / Italy
MAR 25 – APR 17: “Shadows of the Bright”, Berlin Art Projects, Berlin / Germany
MAR 15: “Enigmatic – Videoart from Germany”, City Art Gallery, Kharkiv / Ukraine
MAR 14: “Enigmatic – Videoart from Germany”, Goethe Institut, Kiev / Ukraine
MAR 13: “Internationaler Welde-Kunstpreis für Fotografie”, Plankstadt / Germany
FEB 11 – MAR 11: “Andachtsraum für Kunstverrückte“, Galerie Jarmuschek & Partner, Berlin / Germany
FEB 3 – MAR 12: “See You on the Flip Side“, AC Institute, New York / USA
FEB 18t- 20: “6th Carnival of e-Creativity“, Sattal Estate, Bhimtal / India
FEB 16th: “7th Berlin International Director’s Lounge“, Meinblau, Berlin / Germany
FEB 13th: “The Art of Love“, 27th International Winter Festival, Sarajevo / Bosnia & Herzegovina

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XII Media Forum

24–28 June 2011

Organized by: MediaFest, MediaArtLab Centre for Art and Culture
Co-organizers: Moscow Museum of Modern Art, the Garage Centre for Contemporary Culture
Curator: Olga Shishko
Co-curator: Kirill Razlogov
Producer: Elena Rumyantseva

Media Forum at the Moscow International Film Festival has for the last twelve years been responsible for the borderline territory between cinema and contemporary art. According to the theorists and practitioners of the art of moving images it is exactly there that most interesting and promising events in screen culture are happening: multiscreen cinema is evolving, multimedia art works are created in real time mode and with active audience unteraction, new strategies of distribution and contextual analysis of video works are developing. Apparantly, this is the future of both cinema and video art as a whole.

This XII Media Forum presents what is probably the most ambitious project in all of its history — the Expanded Cinema exhibition chosen from the latest and most striking works on the verge of cinema and video art. Each of these works has its own interpretation of the moving images, its own method of working with the time and space of the screen. The organizers aimed to show the whole range of these art strategies and their distinctness, as they are special and very relevant now, having overtaken major art festivals worldwide. The expositions at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art and the Garage Centre for Contemporary Culture are supplemented by sessions with the artists participating in the project, their lectures and workshops, live performances and live communication of the audience with the most outstanding art figures of our time.

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And a review for all you lovers of the russian language:

“Еще одна любопытная работа – «Это не Cure» Бориса Элдагсена. Две пары стариков, точнее, старческих голов обмениваются друг с другом отчаянно-упадническими текстами в сопровождении мотивов из Вагнеровских «Сумерек богов». Сюжетов смерти на нынешнем медиафоруме хоть отбавляй, но тут есть характерная деталь: то, что говорит бабушка, мы читаем – бесстрастно бегущей строкой на напряженном лице дедушки, стоя спиной к говорящей. И начинаем вращаться внутри этого безнадежного закатноевропейского колеса, получая в спину «шпенглерово» излучение. ”
Julia Kvasok, “Мейнстрим там, где нас нет“, advertology, 02/07/2011

Which can be roughly translated as:

“Another interesting work – “No Cure» by Boris Eldagsen. Two pairs of old, or more precisely, geriatric heads communicate with each other by desperately-decadent texts, accompanied by the motives of Wagner’s “Twilight of the gods.” The idea of death are common place for the current Media Forum, but here is a characteristic feature: the fact that we are standing back to the talking head and reading the words which the old lady says on the dispassionate running line on an opposite image of a tense old man’s face. And you begin to rotate inside the hopeless “sunseteurope” wheel, getting the “Shpengler” radiation to your back.”