First public guided tours delivered by graduates of Garage’s museum guides training course for the Deaf.

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The training program for deaf museum guides initiated by Garage last year will conclude with a series of tours in Russian Sign Language at a number of Moscow’s major museums.

In November 2016, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art launched a special training course for nine deaf museum guides, which involved visiting lectures devoted to museum studies, art history, self-presentation skills improvement sessions, critical analysis of data sources, and other professional classes. During the study year, the participants also attended various cultural institutions in Moscow, allowing them to better understand the ongoing exhibitions and the internal structure of museum work.

Collaboration between different museums has played an important role in the education process of deaf guides. One of the course modules, dedicated to the history of art, was held at Moscow’s major museum venues—the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, the State Tretyakov Gallery, and the Moscow Museum of Modern Art.

In order to complete the inaugural course, each of the graduates will provide their own public excursions delivered in Russian Sign Language that will take place throughout November. Every tour has been prepared individually by the course members, with help from their tutors representing the participating museum institutions.

Garage Museum of Contemporary Art would like to thank the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, the State Tretyakov Gallery, and the Moscow Museum of Modern Art for their help in delivering the Introduction to Art History module and organizing the practical section of the program.

ABOUT THE PARTICIPNTS

 

Viktoria Berlizova was born in a deaf family in Moscow. Studied at the School for deaf children (NIID) and the Polytechnic college, specializing in ecology. She is the chairwoman of the organization “Hearing children in a deaf family”, and she has two hearing children herself. Berlizova is also first year student at the Russian State Social University, specializing in social work.

 

Svetlana Bobkova was born in Kerch. Graduate of the State Special Institute of Arts, she has worked as book illustrator, educator at Garage Museum’s Family Days, and has been delivering guided tours in sign language at the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts,as well as workshops for the Museum of Russian Impressionism visitors. Bobkova currently runs the workshop “A Journey into a Museum” at Moscow’s school #65, while also doing her Masters at the Moscow Pedagogical State University, specializing in World Culture and Museum and Exhibition Studies.

 

Mikhail Veselov was born in a Moscow based hearing family. For six years, he studied together with hearing pupils before moving to Moscow’s school #30 for deaf and hard of hearing children. Veselov studied at the Librarian College (librarian); at the Lenin Moscow Pedagogical State University (teacher of deaf and hard of hearing children, psychologist); and at the University of History of Cultures graduating with a degree on journalism. He has worked at the magazine V edinom stroyu,, as a reporter for the newspaper Mir Glukhih (The World of the Deaf), as PR manager at the Perspektiva LLC, and since 2011, has been editor-in-chief of the Mir Glukhih newspaper. He writes poems, some of which have been included in the compilation Poetry of Russian Deaf Poets. Veselov has been a canoe tourism addict since young age.

 

Artur Vodolagin was born in a hearing family. He lives in Moscow and is currently studying design and international sign language. Previously, he received training in sports, dancing, sign singing, and acting. Loves traveling and new experiences.

 

Anna Doronkova was born in a deaf family in Omsk. Since childhood she has attended art school and has always loved to draw. In 2016 she graduated from the Russian State Special Art Academy (environmental design). Doronkova believes that art can make people happy and sad, and help them distance from everyday problems and reconsider some of their actions. 

 

Lyudmila Zhadan was born in Moscow and studied at the School #30 named after K. Mikaelyan. In 1999, she graduated from the philological faculty of the Lenin Moscow Pedagogical State University (Russian literature and language teacher, with merit). In 2013 Zhadan did a training course on the methodology of teaching Russian Sign Language at the Zaitseva Education and Sign Language Center for Deaf People. Author of articles for the V edinom stroyu magazine and the newspaper Mir Glukhih. Lyudmila Zhadan is married and has three deaf children.

 

Pavel Rodionov was born in a deaf family in Samara. Graduate of the Samara College of Technology and Design (decorative arts and folk crafts) and the Russian State Special Art Academy (2014, film and theater actor, with merit) and has been a participant in many theatrical spectacles and performances in Russia and Europe. He has taught Russian Sign Language for children and has completed a training course in international sign language and British Sign Language (BSL). Rodinov worked as international sign language translator for participants of the 2016 Eurovision in Stockholm, Sweden. He was involved in preparation of the Russian Sign Language video guide accompanying Robert Longo’s exhibition Proof at Garage Museum of Contemporary Art. Author, director, script writer, cinematographer, editor and actor of many music videos, journalistic reports, and video ads.

 

Gennady Tichenko was born in a deaf family and studied at the School #101 for deaf children. Graduate of the Russian State Social University (management and economics). Interested in the deaf community history. Technical editor of the VOGinfo website, he also works as a correspondent. One of the leading members of the deaf youth movement. Tikhonenko is married and has two children.

Schedule

Tours around the exhibition Modernism without a Manifesto. Part 1

The excursion in the Moscow Museum of Modern Art will be held around the exposition of the two-part project Modernism without a Manifesto focusing on Part 1. Roman Babichev’s Collection.

This project is the result of a five-year art historical research into the major collection of Russian art owned by Roman Babichev. The exhibition includes painting, sculpture, architectural and book graphic works—over 350 works by 111 authors overall, representing a novel approach to art of the Soviet period. Along with pieces by world renown artists, such as Ilya Mashkov, Alexander Osmerkin, Tatyana Kupervasser and Aristarkh Lentulov, also on display at MMoMA will be artworks that remained deliberately overlooked during the anti-formalist and anti-modernist era, created by artists who had sacrificed any connections with the viewer in favor of their plastic and formal experiments.

There will be three guided tours in all around the exhibition Modernism without a Manifesto, integrated in one cycle aimed at introducing the project from three different chronological perspectives, and delivered by three different guides.

November 13: Svetlana Bobkova’s tour around the exhibition Modernism without a Manifesto. Part 1. Roman Babichev’s Collection

November 16: Gennady Tichenko’s tour around the exhibition Modernism without a Manifesto. Part 1. Roman Babichev’s Collection

November 19: Pavel Rodionov’s tour around the exhibition Modernism without a Manifesto. Part 1. Roman Babichev’s Collection

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Date
November 13, 16 and 19
Time
18:00–19:00
Place
Moscow Museum of Modern Art (Petrovka street, 25)

Mikhail Veselov’s tour around the exhibition Someone 1917

The title of the show references words used by Velimir Khlebnikov in the finale of his calculations suggesting the collapse of states and published in 1912 in the compilation Slap in the Face of Public Face. Unnoticed at the time of publication, the poet’s statements proves to be prophetic just a few years later.

The goals of the project include leaving behind common stereotypes and moving closer to understanding the complicated picture of one of the most crucial periods in Russian history. Art in front of unknown reality is how the curators define the theme of the show, having developed a new presentational approach. During the guided tour, the viewers will be introduced with some of the key artworks created in the year 1917 and will have the chance to discuss the relationship between historical events and visual arts.

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Date
Thursday, November 23
Time
19:00–20:00
Place
The Tretyakov Gallery on Krymsky Val

Lyudmila Zhadan’s tour for children around Tretyakov Gallery permanent exposition

This tour has been developed for school pupils of the 5th to 8th grades, The young participants will try to puzzle out the etymology of the museum’s name—the Tretyakov Gallery—as well as its structure. During the guided promenade around the space, they will see an old portrait of Alexander Pushkin; one of the largest oil on canvas paintings ever made, The Appearance of Christ before the People by Alexander Ivanov; the famous Morning in a Pine Forest and Warrior Knights by Ivan Shishkin and Viktor Vasnetsov respectively, as well as many other works from the permanent collection.

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Date
Saturday, November 25
Time
15:00–20:00
Place
The State Tretyakov Gallery

Artur Vodolagin’s tour around Takashi Murakami’s exhibition Under the Radiation Falls

At Garage Museum, Artur Vodolagin will deliver his tour around the exhibition Under the Radiation Falls, introducing the visitors with the artist’s works created over the past thirty years and expanding their understanding of Japanese culture in general.

The show Under the Radiation Falls includes five sections and features over 80 pieces by Takashi Murakami, including painting, graphic works, feature-length films and sculpture along with traditional Japanese prints and painting, manga and anime. The project reveals the results of the artist’s investigation into some specific qualities of his national culture and collective consciousness: Murakami’s works blur the boundaries between “high” and ”low”, “mass” and “elite”, while various mediums co-exist in a single visual flow.

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Time
18:00–19:00
Place
Garage Museum of Contemporary Art

Anna Doronkova’s tour The History of the Imppressionist and Postimpressionist Collections of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts

The tour in the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts will allow the viewers to look at the museum in a new way and learn the history of its collections of Impressionist and Postimpressionist masterpieces.

The focus will be made on the stories of two seminal collections, initially developed by Sergey Schukin and Savva Morozov—collectors who discovered the art of Impressionism and other groundbreaking French painters of the 19th and early 20th centuries for the Russian audience. The artists featured in the excursion, include Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, and others.

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Date
Tuesday, November 28

Time
18:00–19:00
Place
The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts

Viktoria Berlizova’s tour for children The Art of Ancient Greece

This is a special excursion that will explain to the young visitors the historical value of sculptural copies, the contexts of the original Greek statuary, and will introduce selected works from the museums’ permanent collection.

The participants will examine original works along with replicas, including some treasures of Ancient Greek sculpture. They will also learn more about the Greek mythology which has remained an inspiration source for philosophers, historians, poets, artists, sculptures and writers who have borrowed classical plots therefrom.

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Date
Thursday, November 30
Time
14:00–15:00
Place
The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts

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