On Thursday, the 13th of November at 5 pm Kirill Tulin opens his exhibition „island / voiced“ at Rundum Rehearsal Space (Joa 4, Tallinn) in an old soon to be demolished dacha at the edge of Kadriorg. The fourth situation set within a circular-installation entangling texts and voices, throws a different light on a living process explored by the artist in three other public situations that unfolded within a month of his residence.
“it is me / third person singular will not be used in this press-release* / i write it myself / i’ve lived in this house on Joa 4 which Rundum gave me for a month / i still live here / soon there will be no such house / soon it will be past / not yet / the house is waiting i am waiting / … / before i got a house i had an idea for it / i imagined what has to be built / i imagined what has to be heard / when i entered this house for a second time / i planted my forethought like one plants a tree / i planted it in the ashes inside an old stove / around which the house is built / in which the house could end / i started to live and it started to grow / together and each on his own / … / every evening i open a door for people to come / i create some situations for us / there were three of them here / all unfolding in the silent dark which if lit / was lit by a cold blue flashlight / in hand of a guest / they often trolledalong the walls / illuminating images and texts / from the previous situations i created elsewhere / i surrounded myself with those traces of past / those were my ashes and a tree had its own / … / i saw a continuum between what i did before / and what was growing now / i felt its growth day by day as I typed the texts / i felt it through the text palpating me / i felt its growth day by day as I wrapped the wall / in aluminium foil hiding my images behind / i saw a circle / a circular movement that distinguishes this house / a circular movement that made visible disappear and imagined appear / a circular movement that contours my island / yes i live here as on a possible island / and i welcome you here / i welcome your body and voice to circulate in this island / come and imagine / it is the fourth situation on the same island / but lit from outside by a warm light / … / in warm silence heartbeat and four voices”
* press-release is a poem quoted in prose
Kirill Tulin
The exhibition is open from the 13-23 of November, daily from 5 pm – 9 pm.
On Sunday, the 16th of November at 6 pm takes place an artist walk, starting from Joa 4.
Joa 4 is situated only a few minutes away from the city center, 100 m from the bus station Oru (buses: 19, 35, 44, 51 from Viru Keskus).
Kirill Tulin (1989, Moscow, permitted resident of Estonia) is dedicated to a work called Situation of Artistic Discussion, S(AD), which has resurfaced two times so far: 2011 — on a non-place of the demolished Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn, in collaboration with Anna Shkodenko; 2012 — in OKK/Raum29 gallery, Berlin, in collaboration with Anna Shkodenko). The exhibition in Joa 4 is a suite to that project.
