Olga Kisseleva’s artistic projects are rooted in rigorous research and demand extensive preparation. The COVID-19 pandemic offered her an opportunity to focus on the behavior of viruses, giving rise to a new edition of her long-term project Power Struggle. Originally initiated in 2011 for the exhibition Red Cavalry: Creation and Power in Soviet Russia between 1917 and 1945 at Tate Modern and La Casa Encendida, this evolving body of work explores the analogies between viral behavior and human conduct in situations of conflict or adversity, as interpreted through the lens of Game Theory.
At the height of the global pandemic, when collective attention was fixed on the virus and its mechanisms, Kisseleva launched a new series of performances. In these, she invites leading experts from disciplines directly or indirectly affected by the crisis – medicine, virology, biology, but also economics, politics, and culture – to analyze viral confrontations as if they were divergences applied within their own field of expertise.
- BC era = before COVID19, DC = during the COVID19 pandemic, AC = after COVID19. Source: LEONARDO provocation initiated in April 2020 by curators Roger Malina, Nina Czegledy and Joel Slayton.
POWER STRUGGLE DC with Claire Nettleton, video HD with sound 6:08. INQUIRE
Claire Nettleton is the Academic Curator for the Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College in California, USA, author of The Artist as Animal in 19th Century French Literature and organizer of Viral Culture: Bioart, COVID-19 and Society weekly webcast meetings with the art-science community and co-editor of a corresponding edited volume.
POWER STRUGGLE DC with Dominique Moulon, video HD with sound, 5:03. INQUIRE
Dominique Moulon is an independent curator, art critic and professor. Holder of a PhD in Arts and Sciences of the Art, he is a member of the Observatory of Digital Worlds in Humanities (OMNSH) and the Observatory of Digital Worlds in Humanities (OMNSH). He teaches at EPSAA (Advanced Professional Graphic Design School), ECV (School of Visual Arts), Parsons School for Design, SAIC (School of the Art Institute) of Chicago, and the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.
POWER STRUGGLE DC with Roman Hossein Khonsari, video HD with sound, 5:12. INQUIRE
Dr Roman Hossein Khonsari is surgeon at the Necker Children Hospital and Associate Professor at the University of Paris. Specialist of maxillofacial surgery, he leads the laboratory “Development and growth of the skull” that studies pattern formation during cranio-facial development.
POWER STRUGGLE DC with Fabrizio Donini Ferretti, video HD with sound 9:53. INQUIRE
Fabrizio Donini Ferretti has twenty years of experience in financing the energy sector, with a focus on clean energies, environment, and climate change mitigation. His is an investment banker and financial advisor in the fields of energy and infrastructure, with private banks, multilateral institutions and private equity.
POWER STRUGGLE DC with Natalia Buryka, video HD with sound, 6:08. INQUIRE
Natalia Buryka is a public historian, essayist, specialist in modern political systems and cultural and educational projects in the field of human sciences. She is an organizer of the historical festival Secousse in Paris. In past, she is the editor of the French and Russian sections of the International Fédération for Public History
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