Aleksei Taruts is a transmedia artist whose practice mainly involves performative and situational works along with mixed media installations. The key issue in his research is the problematisation of the concept of “event” as a unit of symbolic exchange. Taruts’ area of interests also includes manifestations of the irrational, caused by technologies of immediate representation and dispersion of attention, as well as the type of memory produced by unstable connections.
Recommended by Sergey Babkin
Not Enough to Regret, 2019. This series of performative acts raised questions of historical memory and its permeation into daily affects, and of side effects of instant communication technology
Ratmir Vanbuuren Taruts, 2017-ongoing. This performative and sound design-oriented project is presented as a series of performance acts reflecting upon music that is understood as a mere industrial sound of late capitalism
Touamotu Aku Aku Hiwa Oa Oanu Raraku Toto Matua Touamota, 2019. The title, roughly translating from Maori as “you’ll have to make your own parents,” comes from a Soviet song by a band Tsyganyata I Ya S Illicha
The Curse of the Stinking Caves, 2o2o. Performance for a smartphone in a half-price rented loft of Moskva-City high rise complex, IGTV video
The Ultramute of the Twelve Languages, 2019. The title of this project refers to a high relief called Expulsion of Gauls from Moscow, or The Beating of Twelve Languages on the Triumphal Arch of Moscow
The Ultramute of the Twelve Languages, 2019. The project reflects on tropes of militarism and nationalism in the past and in the present
The Ultramute of the Twelve Languages, 2019
