Why dwelling?

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Dear Anastassia, Dear Kuba,

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WHY DWELLING? I have chosen

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Dwelling

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Quiescence

The Subject We haven’t dwelled for a long time, we stay at our places.

Migration of the rural population with a rural type of consciousness burns holes in the urban fabric.

With the growth of cities, nomadic type of consciousness increasingly stretches the concept of urban lifestyle, transforms it, distorts, and becomes part of it.

Who is a carrier of urban consciousness?

Where do they live and how?

Moscow is a global city and its center is a clot of global processes.

Although people who live in this bunch are not necessarily included in these processes or even are natives of Moscow. A special type of people is attracted to the city center. Their lifestyles and urban type of consciousness form the trunk of any city. Therefore, the study of them will give the essence for understanding of urban consciousness in both the local and global dimensions.

Contradictions: * Lifestyle vs. type of consciousness.

Copying urban lifestyle does not indicate urban consciousness. * Myth of the attachment to the place.

The «Прописка» phenomena. * All-embracing dwelling: creation of living * Integration by the type of consciousness, but not nationality. * Multi-city dweller: a new type of consciousness.

Revolution 1

We do not need “... want in the first world” . All the worlds—the first, second and third— are within the same city. Mainly status and gates separate them from each other. With the end of the industrial age all the worlds (and all the cities) have been aligned by similar problems and challenges. This equality gives us a chance to reach any level of success.

Revolution is in revolutionary solutions.

1. Alexander Brener, manifesto “Artist of the Third World”, 1998

Why Me?

Approaches: Promises

In the same way that an act becomes a habit, the same spending at lunchtime forms a lifestyle. I would be interested to see the life of the inhabitants of the Boulevard Ring in a time frame interval. The slice of time is an opposition of the fluidity of existence and routine.

I promise to give 3 months of my life to this project, to think conceptually and structurally, be positive and consistent; to listen, look and sniff closely with the aim to see, hear and notice things inconspicuous at first glance; to abstract, visualize and schematize material.

Benefits

Teamwork In today’s world it is totally impossible to work alone. Renaissance has ended. The time of geniuses has gone. In terms of the huge amount of information that is increasing inexorably, it is very difficult to grasp meanings and values. You can work effectively only in a team. Thus, a statement about the intention to do teamwork is very important to me.

Experiment I am very glad that there is no a promise to make a book. It seems to me very important to be open to any outcome.

Take the path on a research thread through the interchanges and nodes to its logical conclusion, or even to understand that this is only the beginning... I’ll appreciate the experiments...

I will provoke them.

Can act as an expert: I live within the Boulevard Ring Possess a huge infectious enthusiasm and a strong endurance Known for the ability of a reasoned criticismi Easily kill my darlingi Non-conflictual

Foretaste I look forward to revolutionary solutions based on reality, strong members of the studio, strict control of the quality and well-organized work, new techniques and experimental approaches.

We will have a productive time!

sincerely yours, Anna!