Inner School of Open Studies

by Protey Temen

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This section showcases a selection of video and multimedia works spanning various conceptual cycles and years, offering a glimpse into the shift of ideas and techniques over time. Each piece represents a specific moment of focus in a practice. These video works traverse a range of formats and narratives, from short films to immersive multimedia installations.

“Ocean of Memory” exhibition is a generative media installation assembled from hundreds of segments of video, sounds and texts. This is information that has filled everything around it, spilling out into an ocean that has absorbed all the individual voices. A digital broth of many, many minds, human and non-human, existing in a world where violence and pain no longer exist. All that is left here is the poetry of knowledge, which anyone who wishes to receive instantly in exhaustive quantity–learning has become a creative meditation. There has been an irreversible change in the organization of interspecies communication in this world. We can listen to the way this new consciousness breathes, we can recognize individual images, but how it decides and thinks remains unrecognizable to us. Rather, we see a reflection of our own experiences.

One day the boundary of the corporeal will end and everything will disintegrate into pure energy. Only one single ocean will remain of the Earth, shimmering with waves of former flesh. Only a few birds will survive, freed from the carcasses of their cells, but not the memory cells of human language. They will fly endlessly over the surface of the ocean to find, unsuccessfully, an island on which they can rest. As they fly, they will want to repeat the words they heard in the last days of the old world. In random order, without understanding the essence, line by line, like a hackneyed song in an unknown language.

300 video fragments and 300 lines of a poem in the form of a shuffled song combined in a mixture of endless loops. Multi-channel video, multi-channel sound. 2021.

Music production and performance by Chloë Lewer (B O K E H), sound mastering Wouter Rentema. Video installation engineer Maxim Harin. The poem was written in 2018—2019, and presented as a generative poem “Ocean of Memory”.

Exhibited: “Delicate Fractal” (solo), HSE Art Gallery, 2021. Curated by Yulia Yousma.

Links:
“Ocean of Memory”, poem
studiesopeninner.school/textual/ocean-of-memory-poem/
“Ocean of Memory”, shuffled poem
studiesopeninner.school/textual/ocean-of-memory-poem/shuffle-module/
“Grasshopper OS. Screenshots”
studiesopeninner.school/calculation/grasshopperos/

Uncertain practice is a type of activity aimed at conducting experiments without any given goal or a specific question. What are such experiments for? The world around us breathes with confidence of clarity. Chains of events tend to be interpreted through established meanings and cause-and-effect relationships. Step by step, intelligent and educated people help us to flow into the stream of the new time, where everything is as clear as possible. And what happens if you question any of the basic truths? Could it be that the water is not wet, and the fire does not burn? Try to find out for yourself.

120 video fragments, shuffled playback, sound. 2018. Edition of 3 + 2 AP.

Exhibited: “Uncertain Praxis”, CADAF (Contemporary and Digital Art Fair), New York, USA, 2019. Curated by Daria Kravchuk / “Uncertain Praxis” (solo), pop-up exhibition and residency, Aperto Raum, Berlin, Germany, 2018 / “Uncertain Praxis” (solo), 11.12 Gallery, Winzawod, 2018

Additional Materials:
studiesopeninner.school/observation/uncertain-praxis/

A video summarizing and explaining the basic principles of the Inner School of Open Studies structure.

2016. Edition of 3 + 2 AP.

Exhibited: “Knowledge of”, with Lucas Gutierrez, Aperto Raum, Berlin, Germany, 2017 / “First Person exhibition”, Magazijn, Amsterdam Art Weekend, Amsterdam, Netherlands, curated by Daria Kravchuk, 2017. / Exhibition in the apt. N68 (solo), Kvartira #68, High-rise on Kotelnicheskaya, curated by Youlia Yousma, 2017.

Queens and Princes.

A video-based fairytale. In February 2020 I wrote this fairytale as a reaction to whatever was happening out there. Later, during the springtime lockdown, I came up with an idea of a migrating audio-visual show. You know, we all remember those days, when all the activities happened to be only online. The main idea was to show this tale only for 24 hours on cultural institutions Instagram accounts.

Animation, sound, 2020.

Music: Dima Ustinov / English translation: Fabian Saul, Italian translation: Edizioni Corraini

Video Explanations.

Video documentation of sequential explanation, manifesting notes, graphs and sequences. A set of 120 individual fragments is played back in random order, reproducing the effect of surprise each time.

120 video fragments, shuffled playback, sound. 2018. Edition of 3 + 2 AP.

Exhibited: “Total Timeline”, Corraini Gallery, ArtVerona Art Fair, Verona, Italy, 2019 / “Inner School of Open Studies”, GROUND Khodynka, curated by Katya Bochavar, 2018

Schematic Slideshow.

A light installation in the form of a scheme-explanation made on three sheets of paper and overlapping projection. A beam of light highlights a particular fragment of the surface, revealing, like a method of footnotes in the margins, the details hidden in the drawing. Randomness is inherent in the behavior of the catching light, leading the attention from element to element.

Projection, black paperboard, white ink. shuffled playback. Various sizes. 2017. 

Exhibited: Prenzlauerallee studio, Berlin, 2017.

Laughing Anchors and Planetary Systems

2017.

Once The Ant Climbed Into Astronaut’s Ear

Look how drawings are working together when they are melted in an endless slideshow. The sound of the neverending frame switch forces your imagination and tickles your eyes. Is the drawing that much different from the image? How the unknown story appears in the back of your mind?

2016.