Башня. Зонгшпиль /// The Tower: A Songspiel from chto delat on Vimeo.
This film is a production of the Chto Delat collective.
This film is based on an analysis of the conflict that has developed around the planned Okhta Center with a Gazprom skyscraper in Petersburg and on real documents from Russian social and political life. April 2010
Film Concept: Vilensky Dmitry & Tsaplya (Olga Egorova)
Director: Tsaplya (Olga Egorova)
Screenplay: сhto delat
Composer: Mikhail Krutik
Choreography: Nina Gasteva, Mikhail Ivanov and Tsaplya
Set: Dmitry Vilensky, and Gluklya (Natalya Pershina)
Director of Photography: Artyom Ignatov
Editing: Vilensky and Tsaplya
Builders / Строители [2005] from chto delat on Vimeo.
a video project by Chto Delat
realised by Tsaplya [Olga Egorova], Nikolay Oleinikov, Dmitry Vilensky
This video project is inspired by the painting "The Builders of Bratsk" (1961) by Viktor Popkov. As a Soviet art critic once accurately noted, "the paintings main theme is the ‘resurgence of life.'" By today, this piece has become an iconographic symbol of self-possessed, concentrated people, not only standing on the brink of great changes, but capable of making sense of this transformation and realizing it.
see related materials in the publication of Chto Delat "What do we have in common"
The platform Chto delat/What is to be done? was founded with the goal of merging political theory, art, and activism in early 2003 in Petersburg by a
workgroup of artists, critics, philosophers, and writers from Petersburg, Moscow, and Nizhny Novgorod. It originally consists of following members:
Our Principles: Self-Organization, Collectivism, Solidarity
The Chto Delat platform unites artists, philosophers, social researchers, activists, and all those whose aim is the collaborative realization of critical and independent research, publication, artistic, educational and activist projects. All of the platforms initiatives are based on the principles of selforganization and collectivism. These principles are realized through the political coordination of working groupsthe contemporary analogue of soviets.
The projects undertaken by any of these groups represent the entire platform and are closely coordinated with one another. At the same time, the existence of the platform creates a common context for interpreting the projects of its individual participants. We are likewise guided by the principle of solidarity. We organize and support mutual assistance networks with all grassroots groups who share the principles of internationalism, feminism, and equality.
Chto Delat? participates with the video project Tower Songspiel at the exhibition
12.09.–28.11.2010
BAK, Utrecht
Tower Songspiel is on the view at
September 9 – October 10, 2010
Chto Dealt participate at the exhibition at Riso, museo d’arte contemporanea della Sicilia
OTHERS
Le biennali d'arte di Marrakech Istanbul Atene a Palermo e Catania

12.05.2010 – 06.09. 2010
The Potosí Principle. How shall we sing the Lord’s song in a strange land? Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid

see concept of the exhibition project here >>>>
blog http://potosiprincipleprocess.wordpress.com/
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Николай Олейников участвует в дискуссии
Город активистов
3 августа, вторник, 19:00–21:00.
Институт Медиа, Архитектуры и Дизайна "Стрелка". Двор.
The Jan van Eyck Academie is hosting Living Politically: A 48-Hour Communal Life Seminar. The Communal Life Seminar is an initiative of the Chto Delat collective and the Vpered Socialist Movement (Russia) as a response to the acute need to establish alternate forms of collectivity. The fundamental principle of this seminar is that its participants constitute a temporary community for the duration of the event. By combining research, creative work and daily living, they are transformed into a commune.
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