During the exhibition, objects, styles and words that were unnoticed, negated or simply unknown in the context of “pOst-Western” transformation will be collected and reconfigured as indexical traces. In order to understand the processes of historicizing the ‘post-socialist / socialist experience’ beyond any mythologizing absorption, TFPM [1] suggests new connections between that remote future and specific experiences of the present. The exhibition architecture was developed by KLOZIN– Office for Display Solutions (Wilhelm Klotzek & David Polzin).
Set # B is complemented by the Appendix Collection, a research station with reference materials from the participants, the archive transitland: Video Art from Central and Eastern Europe 1989-2009 (curated by Edit András and Margarita Dorovska) and the TFPM videos by Lina Albrikienė, bankleer, Vlad Basalici, Eglė Budvytytė & Bert Groenendaal, Irina Botea, Cooltūristės, Lenka Clayton, eteam, Christian Jankowski, Anna Jermolaewa, Szabolcs Kisspál, Jumana Manna & Sille Storihle, Wilhelm Klotzek, Jumana Manna & Sille Storihle, Anna Molska, VIP, Clemens von Wedemeyer, Katarina Zdjelar, a.o.
Participants: Lina Albrikienė, Ēriks Apaļais, bankleer, Mitya Churikov, CORO Collective, Nicu Ilfoveanu, Wilhelm Klotzek & David Polzin, Marina Naprushkina, Claudia Rößger, ŽemAt
For more information, see The Forgotten Pioneer Movement—Guidebook (co-ed. Ulrike Gerhardt & Susanne Husse, Hamburg: Textem, 2014), http://www.mottodistribution.com/shop/the-forgotten-pioneer-movement-guidebook-9358.html [2]
Set # B was realized in collaboration with Balassi Institut – Collegium Hungaricum Berlin (.CHB) [3].
CORO Collective, Vocabulary Lesson (2009), video, installation view, The Forgotten Pioneer Movement, District Berlin 2014 © Emma Haugh
CORO Collective, Vocabulary Lesson (2009), video, installation view, The Forgotten Pioneer Movement, District Berlin 2014 © Emma Haugh
Lina Albrikienė (left) and Ēriks Apaļais (right), exhibition view, The Forgotten Pioneer Movement, District Berlin 2014 © Emma Haugh
Ēriks Apaļais, Untitled (2011), exhibition view, The Forgotten Pioneer Movement, District Berlin 2014 © Emma Haugh
Lina Albrikienė, From Lazdynai to Paneriai (The Slope of Wild Strawberries. Paneriai Memorial and Zuikių Bus Stop. Paneriai), videos, installation view, The Forgotten Pioneer Movement, District Berlin 2014 © Emma Haugh
Lina Albrikienė, From Lazdynai to Paneriai (The Tree for My Father, 1983 – 2014, Paneriai and Žėručio Street. Lazdynai), installation view, The Forgotten Pioneer Movement, District Berlin 2014 © Emma Haugh
Marina Naprushkina, Politics and School, walldrawing, installation view (detail), The Forgotten Pioneer Movement, District Berlin 2014 © Emma Haugh
Marina Naprushkina, Encyclopaedia for Ideology-Workers and Politics and School, video and walldrawing, installation view, The Forgotten Pioneer Movement, District Berlin 2014 © Emma Haugh
Marta Popivoda, How Ideology Moved Our Collective Body (2013), film screening, The Forgotten Pioneer Movement, District Berlin 2014 © Emma Haugh
Marta Popivoda & Ana Vujanović, How Ideology Moved Our Collective Body, filmscreening and discussion with Sophie Goltz, The Forgotten Pioneer Movement, District Berlin 2014 © Emma Haugh
Mitya Churikov, Untitled (Kajima Corporation 1978), sculpture, installation view, The Forgotten Pioneer Movement, District Berlin 2014 © Emma Haugh
Mitya Churikov, Untitled (Kajima Corporation 1978), sculpture, installation view, The Forgotten Pioneer Movement, District Berlin 2014 © Emma Haugh
Nicu Ilfoveanu, Valerică. Eau de Vie, sculpture, installation view (CORO Collective in the background), The Forgotten Pioneer Movement, District Berlin 2014 © Nicu Ilfoveanu
Nicu Ilfoveanu, Valerică. Eau de Vie, sculpture, installation view (Ēriks Apaļais in the background), The Forgotten Pioneer Movement, District Berlin 2014 © Nicu Ilfoveanu
ŽemAt & Aikas Žado Museum Live, Imagining the Absence, installation view, The Forgotten Pioneer Movement, District Berlin 2014 © Emma Haugh
ŽemAt & Eglė Ambrasaitė, Imagining the Absence, video, installation view, The Forgotten Pioneer Movement, District Berlin 2014 © Emma Haugh
ŽemAt & Eglė Ambrasaitė, Imagining the Absence, video, installation view (detail), The Forgotten Pioneer Movement, District Berlin 2014 © Emma Haugh
Marina Naprushkina, Encyclopaedia for Ideology-Workers, video, installation view (detail), The Forgotten Pioneer Movement, District Berlin 2014 © Emma Haugh
Marina Naprushkina, Encyclopaedia for Ideology-Workers, video, installation view, The Forgotten Pioneer Movement, District Berlin 2014 © Emma Haugh
Marina Naprushkina, We are Belarus (2011), poster series, The Forgotten Pioneer Movement, District Berlin 2014 © Office for Anti-Propaganda
Claudia Rößger, Constellations (2012), series of drawings, exhibition view, The Forgotten Pioneer Movement, District Berlin 2014 © Emma Haugh
The Forgotten Pioneer Movement, exhibition view, District Berlin 2014 © Emma Haugh
Appendix Collection, The Forgotten Pioneer Movement, exhibition view, District Berlin 2014 © Emma Haugh
Mitya Churikov, Untitled, video, Appendix Collection, The Forgotten Pioneer Movement, exhibition view, District Berlin 2014 © Emma Haugh
The Forgotten Pioneer Movement, exhibition view, District Berlin 2014 © Emma Haugh
Photographs by Emma Haugh