Art Experiment is Garage’s interactive project that invites participants of all ages to immerse in contemporary art, create art objects, and find fresh inspiration in a collaborative effort.
Garage Center for Contemporary Culture’s Art Experiment gives a whole new meaning to a day at the museum, allowing visitors of all ages to experience culture in new and unexpected ways. Since launching in 2010, over 20,000 children, young people and adults have participated in the legendary annual event, which encourages new audiences to engage, participate and create a dialogue with one another. Highly acclaimed for its pioneering displays, Art Experiment is known as an action-packed laboratory for innovative art practices from around the world, including video, sound, installation, environmental art, group performances and master classes.
In January 2014, Art Experiment will present it’s most visually stimulating environment yet, transforming Garage’s pavilion into a towering, multi-level architectural labyrinth, designed by architects Kirill Asse and Nadezhda Korbut. The space has been designed to act as a single artwork, which records and analyses visitor’s activity and behavioral patterns. Collaboration Under Construction will invite participants to collaborate directly with artists, co-creating installations and independent works of art that explore the theme of architecture. Visitors will also have the chance to curate their own journey through eight different creative zones, and join ‘a sequence of mutable situations’.
Each of these zones will offer a uniquely engaging experience: artist Andrey Kuzkin will be on-site for 17 days performing 1 4 12 3 18 9 16 1 – 15 8 99 3, inviting visitors to share objects that will become part of an artistic exchange; Russian collective Art Group ZIP will present an extended version of their installation Meeting, featuring hundreds of tiny plasticine figures holding visitors’ messages and thoughts; Moscow-based interactive specialists PlayDisplay will create an imaginative multi-dimensional work exploring reality and space; architectural photographer Yuri Palmin will challenge visitors to create a 21st century museum; artist Georgy Litichevsky will ask participants to add their names to an alternative ‘history of art’; and two concealed spaces will present interactive digital installations from Monobanda Studio and Thomas Traum and Tim Gfrerer presented by the Cinekid Foundation, organizers of the largest international new media festival, held in the Netherlands.
Garage Teen’s Club - a group of 23 young people ages 14 to 18 – will also conceive and design a new work especially for Art Experiment 2014. In collaboration with the event’s architects and curators, the team will create Inhabit the Space, where visitors can experience architectural models on a scale of 1:1.
Collaboration under Construction will invite participants of all ages to explore contemporary architecture and its relationship to human creativity through the practice of collaboration. This year, Art Experiment certainly promises to challenge and inspire every member of the family!
