Picking up where we left off in 2016, we turn our attention to Konstantin Zorkin’s exhibition “Active Object Environment.”

Konstantin Zorkin is a Ukrainian artist working with installations, graphics, and performance art. In 2014, he founded the “Laboratory of Undirected Actions” project, a group of artists and performers united by the search for new forms of performance art.

The Municipal Gallery showcased works created between 2015 and 2016. Materials such as wood, steel, rope, paper, chalk, salt, and clay were used to create the pieces. These works had previously been used in performances, but this time they were presented in an unusual way for the viewer – separately from the action itself. Although the opening of the exhibition did not go without a performance: the author demonstrated his new performance to the audience.

Zorkin himself wrote about his project: “What I do has been titled ‘Laboratory of the Law of Undirected Reasonable Shaping May Be…’ And these are its elements, which my friends with their thoughts, actions, OR in fact these are processes, such as a chemical reaction, which creates its own context, which exists in the management of influence on each previous one, forming the next, which cannot be predicted, BUT, if you go back, it looks very logical… Here logic does not receive words, It is not a plot, but rather a series of signs, the SEC confirms the choice of direction.

https://mgallery.kharkov.ua/2000-festival-mistectvo-na-mezhi-stolit/