Enartete/Tigran Khachatryan

Entartete

Author: Tigran Khachatryan

Year: 2010

Étienne-Jules Marey's moving images made through the camera gun have intensely infused technical progress and human liberation. I've tried to show the non-totalitarian site of futurism: the human's naked body, simple actions made in a non-specific environment. In the video performance, I've used fragments from the works of Armenian futurist poets. Some of these poets became victims of the totalitarian regime; others -stopped their creative activity falling into oblivion. The title of the performance comes from the famous exhibition in 1937. Through my body (far from being ideal), I've tried to express that progress and revolution have ethics but not aesthetic norms.