classic poetry

Project IP Poetry questions the statute of poetry and poets. On the one hand, as far as the construction of robots is concerned, it highlights the subjectivization of technological systems, those we provide of determinate human augmented characteristics artificially –memory, ability to speak and listen to each other-. On the other hand, with regards to the poetic constructions as a result, we take advantage of the virtual configuration of a collective human memory through the Internet Web and a poetics based on machinery and random. Using a proximity sensor the system detects the presence of the audience and sends a command to the robots to make them start to recite poems created for each event.

Led, plastic, custom electronics Economics and life, physicists and lyricists: these idiomatic phrases evoke a stream of associations from early childhood, sunlit and full of endless happiness. As any artist, Aristarkh Chernyshev gets out these memories and uses them to create art, with his at once recognizable expressive means, using method of documenting the information stream (installations «Final Customization», «Chewing Mud», «Thirst», the object «TVblaster»), though applied to text. The dispute between physicists and lyricists was won by managers, as both physicists and lyricists turned out to be different subspecies of naive romanticists. In modern rationalized, globalized world, there is no space left for lyricism. The poetry of today is stock exchange rates, oil and gold prices, celebrity news and ad slogans. «Lyric Economy» brilliantly embodies this idea, at the same time leaving a hope that there is still a place for art in this world, if nothing else as shimmering lights of advertisement boards. The installation visually deconstructs a traditional poetic text (Goethe, Shakespeare, Pushkin, you to decide) and replaces it with a news feed coming in real time through RSS channels.

(Source: exhibition catalogue)