Vadim Fishkin
Dictionary of Imaginary Places (2020)
Installation
Burgring
You’re not being paranoid! These two streetlights really are talking to one another.

24.9.–18.10

Burgring, 8010 Graz
Coventrypromenade / Corner Erzherzog-Johann-Allee
Opposite Künstlerhaus Graz
Public space  ♿
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Credits

Commissioned and produced by steirischer herbst ’20

You heard it right: The streetlamps along Burgring are actually having a conversation. In the work of Vadim Fishkin two lights become actors. A squeaky voice and a bass exchange utopian and literary place names from Alberto Manguel and Gianni Guadalupi’s Dictionary of Imaginary Places. They recite the names of mysterious cities and countries, distant objects of yearning for a time when travel is near-impossible. But in the ever-accessible world of literature, we still travel around the globe in our imagination.

Bio

Vadim Fishkin (1965, Penza, Russia) is an artist working post-conceptually with technology and current scientific developments. His special focus is the human dimension of these technologies and what they say about universal and fundamental questions, which he often explores with irony and a touch of the theatrical. He lives in Ljubljana.

Credits

Commissioned and produced by steirischer herbst ’20

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