Description

The project began with an eight-hour practice of inaction. Inaction is the urge to give up action while a very intense action is going on inside. The intension for action originates in inaction. Inaction can be seen as one way of resisting intertentive action.

The space of inaction formed mental itineraries that I recreated externally through walks. In this way the unarticulated experience and chain of reflection within the practice was reflected in the documentation of the walk. The walk itself is a reconstruction of the perceptual experience that took place within the inaction. Action hovered in the gap between inner and outer space.

Irina Ivannikova (b.1986) studied at FotoDepartament Institute, Institute of Contemporary Art, Performance Art studio and Plekhanov Russian University of Economics. She works with various media including photography, performance and installation. Solo exhibition: FotoDepartament “Renovation” St. Petersburg (2017). Group exhibitions: Festival “Media Performance” ММОМА,

Moscow (2012), Performance Festival “Hopscotch” ММОМА (2013), Festival “Performance art” Moscow (2013), Multimedia Art Museum «Contemporary russian artists» Moscow (2013), Skolkovo gallery «Media-poetry machines» Moscow (2015),Electromuseum «Digital poet» Moscow (2015), Electronic Literature Festival «Decentering: Global Electronic Literature. This is not a utopia», Stiftelsen 3,14, Bergen, Norway (2015), FotoDepartament «Present is happening» St. Petersburg (2016), etc. Book: “Renovation” one book of the set AMPLITUDE №1published by FotoDepartament (St.Petersburg).