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    BIO
    Irina Gulyakina was born in Klintsy, Bryansk region, Russia in 1980, most of her childhood was spent in town Borovsk, Kaluga region. Now artist lives and works in Moscow. After graduating the Moscow State Technical University by Bauman and British Higher School of Art and Design, she had been working in the field of web design and advertising industry for over 10 years.
    In August 2020 Irina Gulyakina defended her diploma in the course Contemporary Art at the Higher School 'Sreda Obucheniya'.

    Since September 2020, Irina Gulyakina is an active participant in the artist-run initiative '22', as an artist, curator and manager. Participated in group artistic projects in Moscow, Russia: Winzavod, Zverevsky Center of the Contemporary Art, Gallery 'Sreda' cube.Moscow, ZIL Cultural Center, MMOMA educational center, GARAGE.DIGITAL program; participated in group art project in Linz, Austria - Ars Electronica 2022.

    In her projects, the artist refers to the texts of the 'cosmists' of the early twentieth century, avant-garde poets and modern critical theory; explores the theme of food, plants, the human body. Irina Gulyakina works with different various mediums of artistic expression: painting, video, performance, installation.

    Together with Elena Shmakova, Irina Gulyakina taught lectures at the higher school 'Sreda Obucheniya'.
    CV
    09-12.2023 participation of the performative lecture VOTIW*; author Alek Petuk, performers: Kseniya Tihomirova, Katya Smolyanskaya, Irina Gulyakina, Alek Petuk. Exhibition "Star's revenge" by Coincidental International. GES-2. Moscow

    09.2023 solo exhibition and apartment party "HBYAF-T". Moscow

    08.2023 curator and author of the audio performance and walk "I've never been here before and here I am again". Festival "Arcadia". Ulyanovsk http://gulyakina.ru/parkoffriendship

    06.2023 curator and author of the performance "BUZZ" for artist-run group "22". It was shown in Winzavod, biennale of street art and public art "Artmossphere 2023". Moscow https://artmossphere.winzavod.ru/people/dvadcat_dva

    04.2023 solo exhibition "'Lessons from the emergency situations' or 'My unpeaceful atom' or 'Regardless the circumstances – plant potatoes'". Elektrozavod gallery. Moscow http://gulyakina.ru/emergency

    03.2023-04.2023 participation in the seminars dedicated to computer game Dark Souls, season 2, and final show of the performance works in Garage museum. Initiator of the seminars - Alek Petuk.
    Performative lecture "Sound environments. Dark Souls and modern urban soundscapes" https://youtu.be/RmEvRI7bxD4, sound-art "Dark Souls in the City" https://youtu.be/mityjlDByrg?si=4660FmOLd8OetqiQ
    PROJECTS
    I've never been here before and here I am again
    Audio performance-walk through the lower tier of Peoples' Friendship Park. Ulyanovsk
    Lessons from emergency situations
    Artistic research conducted by Irina Gulyakina "Lessons from emergency situations" or "My unpeaceful atom" or "Regardless the circumstances – plant potatoes"
    Somewhere between compost and cosmoport
    A pair exhibition in which artists Roman Konovalov and Irina Gulyakina created a space for a dialogue between dreams of other worlds and planets and the earthliness of the human body, in its need for co-existence with other species.
    Hub#3 Breathing ruins
    Participation in the artistic research project Unstable compounds which was initiated, produced and curated by Posthuman Studies Lab
    Moving through the dark forest, I fell and suddenly feel alive
    Performance
    TRANSITION TO AUTOTROPHIC MODE
    Installation that allows visitors to experience a new way of nutrition for the future human body - nutrition through photosynthesis.
    WHITE SAVAN FOR CANNON
    As a response to the action of the Here-and-There group, we decided to cover the cannon with a light white cloth. Symbolically, this action ends the life of the gun, testifies to its uselessness, transforms the original militaristic meaning of the object...
    POINT ON THE MAP
    Frozen houseplants amid wires and industrial debris, abandoned, dead. Why were they left? A question that haunted me after traveling through the manufactories of the former Phasotron factory, now of the new Art Cluster Electric Workshops...
    AUTOTROPHY OF ME
    Every day, three times a day - someone more often, someone less often organizes their routine of life with the help of food. Human physiology is designed in such a way that food and water are necessary for us to live. It would seem that this necessity has nothing to do with politics and power, with the emotional and intellectual development of mankind. But...
    RITUAL OF CLEANNESS
    The biopolitics of human bodies is increasingly establishing distance from the earth, each other and communication with other species. The pure, safe tension of loneliness.
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    artist statement
    At the beginning of the 20th century, V. Vernadsky, in the article "Autotrophy of Humanity", casts doubt on the "basic" need for food. "Nutrition, although a great geochemical phenomenon of the cycle in the biosphere, is not something fundamental, unchanged and necessary for life". This article and further study of Russian thought at the beginning of the 20th century served as a starting point in my interest in the potency of "descending" forces: decomposition, food consumption, digestion, transformation into soil, into a plant - their projective and transforming potential.
    My artistic practice always connects with basis medium – human body, that's why I learn a lot about body practices: contemporary dance, performance, theatre – as well train they too.

    Research is the mandatory beginning of each project and the building story, myth, space. Thus, it is quite difficult to designate a specific medium of artistic expression. I am captivated by transdisciplinarity, working with various media: painting, video, sound, performance, installation, text.

    In theoretical studies, in addition to Russian thought of the early twentieth century: cosmism, avant-garde poets, - I turn to modern critical theory: texts by Donna Haraway, Ben Woodard, Timothy Morton, Reza Negarestani, Yoel Regev etc.

    Feel free to contact me
    Irina Gulyakina
    Artist, performer, curator

    E-mail: irengy@gmail.com
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