From “Voodoo-TV” series, 2015
The installation consist of Soviet-era TV-sets connected to the aerials shaped like veves – the voodoo symbols designed to contact loas, the spirits mediating between humans and Supreme Creator Bondye. Aerials, placed under the ground in the coal mine replica of the pavilion #13 of Kyiv VDNKh, are not able to get any waves leaving the ritual with no answer.
This use of technics reminds us about the power of TV screen which propagandists can, among others, use to to turn audience into zombies. While noise is all to be receipt by aerials the fellings of forlornness and alienation created by mass media are emphasised.
Participants: Ievgenii Kazak, Nadiia Smirnova, Maria Strelchuk
GOGOLFEST-2015, Kyiv, Ukraine
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