One-Work Talk Program and Creative Workshops for Blind and Partially Sighted Visitors. Part of the Public Program for Open Storage. A Prologue

The third session will explore Kristina Pashkova’s work The Eye of the Mistress, which examines the connection between weaving and the history of computing. The reality of the textiles in the installation is expanded through visual poetry, video and sound.

The meeting will also feature a tactile module that is part of Kristina Pashkova’s installation. During the workshop participants will encode their own messages through weaving.

The second session will begin with a tour of Gor Chahal’s works in various media: collages, paintings, and poems. A mathematician by education, Gor Chahal is a poet, creator of musical and poetry performances, and one of the pioneers of multimedia art in Russia. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, he was an active participant in the Moscow underground art and rock scenes.

The second part of the session will take place in the studio, where participants will make collages from a poem, instant photographs, and drawings. 

The first session will focus on a series of works by the group World Champions. The Moscow-based group was formed by friends who studied together at School No. 96 and Krasnopresnenskaya Art School in the mid-1980s. World Champions mocked the intellectualism of the older generation of Moscow Conceptualists and invented their own approaches to the exploration of reality.

Participants will look at the group’s striking paintings and works on paper, which are close to children’s drawings, folk art, comics, and poster aesthetics. The tour will be accompanied by an audio description and will include the exploration of a tactile model of a work by Boris Matrosov, one of the members of the group. 

In the stdio, participants will try to write a technical design specification for an artwork, as World Champions did for their work. 

About the Guide

Sofya Lukyanova is an audio describer and Garage guide.