© MMOMA Vladislav Mamyshev-Monro. Akhmatova in memoirs from the series "Tales of Lost Time." 2001 (fragment)On April 26, an online lecture, performance and a concert at the Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art (MMOMA), the public program of the interdisciplinary project “General Rehearsal” will open.
The project is based on the metaphor of the theater play in three acts, each of which is written by an invited author, and will be presented at three premieres, the first of which will begin on April 26.
The authors of the first act are the association “Theater of mutual actions” (Ksenia Peretrukhina, Cipher Dodan, Lesha Lobanov, Alexander Moon). At the exhibition , which will take three floors of the museum, work will be presented from the collections of the VAC, MMOMA and Kadist Foundation.
Public program of the first act of the General Rehearsal project:
April 25th
Discussion of the director of the Kadist Foundation Emily Ville, art director
VAC Francesco Manacords, curators of the project Andrei Parshikov and Kirill Adibekov, artists of the association “Theater of mutual actions” and the architect of the exhibition of Konrad Dedobelera, dedicated to the plan and methodology of the “General rehearsal”.
April 26
On the day of the premiere of the first act, the online lecture of the teacher “Documents” Sepak Angiam, the author of educational programs “Manifesto” and “Documents”, which in 2018 joined the VAC Foundation, will be held. In the evening, the British artist Callie Poiner, who worked with the Serpentine and Tate Modern, will show the performance of the “warm -up”. On the same day, the pioneer of the Italian embosses Gigi Mazin will perform in the courtyard of the museum.
5, 12, 19 and 28, June 2 and 9
On Saturdays, the “General Rehearsal” will take place on the exhibition and practical classes in animation for children 3-8 years old; The program was prepared by the curator of the large cartoon festival Maria Aligozhina.
6, 13, 20 and 29, June 3 and 10
On Sundays, tours and workshops will be held in scenario for teenagers 9-14 years old, which will be held by the artist and philologist Ilmira Bolotyan, the author of the program - Maria Krupnik, curator of the theater project for teenagers “Cool Drama”.
May 12
Showing the film "Ava" (2017, director - Lea Missus), participant in the "Week of Critics" of the Cannes Festival.
May 15
“Summer Semester”: the Reading Group of the editor-in-chief of the VAC publishing house Dmitry Potemkin with the participation of the artist Alexei Buldakov.
May 15 and 29
Tours and conversations of mediators of the “general rehearsal” with older guests.
May 17
Belgian artist Kob Mattis collects documents, musical notes and items related to special legal cases and do not fit into the concept of intellectual property. He proposes to explore one of these things and discuss on May 17 at the General Rehearsal.
May 19
As part of the night in the museum, a participant in the Association “Theater of Mutual Actions” Cryphra Dierce organizes a press conference, where the photograph of Vladislav Mamynevo in the image of Akhmatova will answer questions from journalists and everyone. In the evening, the Tel Aviv Electronic Musician Autarkic , published on the labels of Disco Halal and Turbo .
May 22
“Summer Semester”: the Reading Group of the editor-in-chief of the VAC publishing house Dmitry Potemkin with the participation of the artist Kirill Savchenkov.
May 24
The lecture of the poet and artist Pavel Arsenyev “BI (BLOUT) OGASHING TOGE, or literature on the cross section of the sociotechnical conveyor”.
May 26
“Theater of mutual actions”, the authors of the first act of “General Rehearsal”, will hold a tour of the exposition and tell about the idea of the exhibition in the form of a performance.
May 29
“Summer Semester”: the Reading Group of the editor-in-chief of the VAC publishing house Dmitry Potemkin with the participation of the artist Ivan Novikov.
May 31
The sociologist and dean of the philosophical and sociology faculty of the RANEPA Viktor Vakhstein will give a lecture “To object-oriented sociology”.
June 1
The performance of the Canadian producer Jess Aurelius, who creates noise entries, using, among other things, software that generates interference for combat drones.
June 2
The Russian premiere of the film "Theater of War" (2018) of the theater director and performer Lola Arias, a discussion with the author of the picture and critic Nika Parkomovskaya.
June 5
“Summer Semester”: the Reading Group of the editor-in-chief of the VAC publishing house Dmitry Potemkin with the participation of the artist Arseniy Zhilyaev.
June 8
The concert of the duo of the London multi-instrumentalists Tomaga , which play a mixture of psychedelic jazz and kraut-blade.
June 9–12
In the exposition space, the Romanian artist, choreographer and dancer Alexander Pirich will show the performance of “Marble Parthenon” for four days.
The entrance is free of registration, the exact time of the start of all events of the public program can be found on the website of the General Rehearsal . In the program, changes and additions are possible.