Kinetic Installation Antique weights, tv monitor, programming Artist: Anna Frants Programming Sergey Komarov In collaboration with CYLAND media lab 2009
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- Year Created: 2011
- Submitted to ArtBase: Friday Apr 15th, 2011
- Original Url: http://www.annafrants.net/home_20.html
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Work Credits:
- anna40, primary creator
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Artist Statement
Our entire life is struggle. It could take form of a simple fight on the boxing arena or be the struggle for daily bread (or vegetable) in the Soviet times when, after a long standing in line at a greengrocer, accompanied by cheerful songs from а loudspeaker, they always strived to short-weight you on the rinky-dink dirty scales with rusty weight pieces. In this installation, a viewer is given an opportunity to take the situation under control – by moving weights from scale to scale, to change the song, to reach a desired balance and even, possibly, to come off victorious out of the fight with the vendor who, with each withheld gram, undermined the struggling Soviet consumer.
