anniversary
The Day of The City by Gian Maria Tosatti
Anniversary chapter: In an historical part of Ivangorod close to The Kreenholm textile Manufacture there is a half abandoned building with a memory board about a young revolutionary woman who was killed.
Visual & Concept: Irina Komissarova
Performance: Maria Ponomareva
Creative team: Butsan Anastasia, Komissarova Irina, Kuznetsov Iliya, Luchnikova Katerina, Ponomareva Maria
... an abandoned building, and I see: it looks like constructivism, no, "industrial architecture" of the early twentieth century, a memorial plaque "A revolutionary weaver lived in this house... She murmured in 1906...". On the staircase is a very Soviet "very colorful" poster with today's date: "Solemn concert in honor of the anniversary of Amalia Kreuzberg". I walk through these ruins, touch these railings, doors, walls, shake off the dust from my clothes. Light comes in through the broken windows. The notion of a bygone time is being conceptualized. Revolutionary. Death. Ideology. Post-Soviet devastation. The uselessness of this place. Emptiness. The Krenholm manufactory, which existed for a century and a half and was closed. Ivangorod. Ivangorod in the RSFSR and Narva in the ESSR, a city divided by a river. Past. Present. The border with Estonia. A quarantined border. Association circles from a point in space.
Photos: Polina Nazar
Border Laboratory, International Summer Festival of Arts "The Access Point"
Ivangorod, Russia 2021