Lera MALCHENKO, Oleksandr HANTS
CONCRETE AND UNCLEAR (artistic research, 00:30:56)
2019
In the centre of city Dnipro, Ukraine, during the 50 years exist abandoned hotel ‘PARUS’ (SAIL). It had to become the symbol of the grandiosity of Dnipropetrovsk as the homeland of the Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev. But it has never been opened — the construction stopped on the eve of collapse of the Soviet Union.
Since the 2000 the PARUS has been depicting as a completed building on calendars, in memes, art-projects, architectural visualizations. For a lot of people in Dnipro it’s already the symbol of the city, although it is unfinished.
CONCRETE AND UNCLEAR researched a plenty of PARUS’s interpretations in different analogue and digital mediums, and tried to capture condition of this collective dreaming.
The film was made with the support of the «Cultural Capital» program
FANTASTIC LITTLE SPLASH. Lera MALCHENKO (1987), Oleksandr HANTS (1988).
Established in 2016 in Dnipro, Ukraine. Collective combines art practice and media studies, interested in utopias and dystopia, the collective imagination and its incarnations, projections, delusions and uncertainties.
