Today, the Center for Creative Industries "PROEKT_FABRIKA" (Hall Calenders) opens the exhibition Haim Sokol. The audience will see the installation - a report on the project "Natural Exchange"

Center for Creative Industries "PROEKT_FABRIKA", 15-26 December 2011
Moscow, Perevedenovsky lane, 18

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Today at the Center for Creative Industries "PROEKT_FABRIKA" (Hall Calenders) opens the exhibition . The audience will see the installation - project report "Pure exchange».

«For each good use in two ways. The first is inherent in things as such, the second - no, so sandal can be used to obuvaniya feet and to exchange »
(Aristoteles.« De Republica », Vol. 1, Ch. 9).

In April This year I spent on my facebook charity auction by selling some of his works. The money raised at the auction, I decided to buy new shoes for migrant workers, and bartered them for old ones. I met a group of Kyrgyz workers and held a series of exchanges.

Next, always striving to improve working conditions, instead I became a shoe exchange tools - shovels, rakes, and troughs, etc. In this case, the exchange took place on the same principle - a new exchange for the old, but no longer with the group, but individually.

Each step I described in detail in facebook. It is an integral part of the virtual-social process, and some comments will be represented at the exhibition.

next stage, which continues to this day, became the symbolic exchange. I began to study the Kyrgyz language. As a teacher, I invited Kyrgyz woman who works as a cleaner in the cafeteria and not a professional teacher of the language.

exchange boots and shovels are not interchangeable variations of the same, and the successive stages. The first step I failed, because instead of working shoes, as was originally meant, I had to buy casual footwear. The second stage also ended in nothing, because working with a new shovel is no different from working with the old. The third stage is also known to be disastrous.

In general, the project was implemented in the Internet space. And I'm not sure whether it is possible and whether you want to show it. And most importantly, how to do this while maintaining or recreating with those unique moments, feelings, doubts, and my inner feelings that arose in the process. why not show until now. Perhaps the most adequate form for the transfer of all this - the texts. Some of them were published in my facebook, but most have not yet written.

But now, after a Russian march, frightening campaign slogans and stunning in its cynical statements about the medical chiefs of migrants, I feel the need to do something.

Haim Sokol.

Exhibition coincides with the International Migrant's Day December 18.

Source: proektfabrika.ru