Artistic projects - Konstantin Grouss
ARTISTIC PROJECTS
Curiosity about life in all its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.
I focus on the boundary zones between different media, searching for different types of information in both artistic and curatorial practice, which I devote equal time and attention.
Sculpture
Dance in dynamic statics
Sculpture is a logical continuation of the dance, the opportunity to give it existence in another time and dimension. In my concept of working with a static form, the kinetic component is important, giving a feeling of variability and relation to the current moment
Sculpture is a logical continuation of the dance, the opportunity to give it existence in another time and dimension. In my concept of working with a static form, the kinetic component is important, giving a feeling of variability and relation to the current moment
Sculpture, performance, video
The Botanic Gardens of Moscow State University "THE APOTHECARIES' GARDEN"
The Botanic Gardens of Moscow State University "THE APOTHECARIES' GARDEN"
Sculpture, performance, video
"Horizontal" project, Moscow biennale of contemporary art, Guslitsa creative castle, 2015
"Horizontal" project, Moscow biennale of contemporary art, Guslitsa creative castle, 2015
Video
Dance on the plane: video, movie, documentation
The video reveals the possibilities of dance that are not available in live performance or sculpture. Projection onto a plane or several planes, focus on details, compositional moves and features of drama fundamentally distinguish video from action on stage. Although very often it complements perfectly.
The video reveals the possibilities of dance that are not available in live performance or sculpture. Projection onto a plane or several planes, focus on details, compositional moves and features of drama fundamentally distinguish video from action on stage. Although very often it complements perfectly.
Video, music, poetry, dance
duration 4'33"
May 2020
duration 4'33"
May 2020
Almost empty space
Video
Series of video, in which space is of secondary importance to time
Series of video, in which space is of secondary importance to time
Round panorama 13/11
Video, dance
Series of video, base on common idea, filmed in different places
Series of video, base on common idea, filmed in different places
Multimedia performance
Comtemporary dance, poetry, video
Marina Tsvetaeva museum
30 min.
2015
Comtemporary dance, poetry, video
Marina Tsvetaeva museum
30 min.
2015
video, 2007
Filmed during The 2-nd Biennale of contemporary art in Moscow
Filmed during The 2-nd Biennale of contemporary art in Moscow
<at>BODY<dot>MOVE
series of multimedia dance performances
One of formulas that I work with today is the formula, which serve as the base of a series of works <at> BODY <dot> MOVE.
Briefly it can be described as follows:
<Unit of information-impulse-movement-unit Information>
Dance can be described as a series of shapes from the visible side and the information of energy flow from the back, invisible, side. Human body in the flow of information takes one form after another following the impulse, initiating the movement. It creates dance. A large part of daily information that we get from the news feeds practically does not affect us and flows as background. Placing the body as an instrument in this thread, we transform the information into a new shape, depriving the former meaning and giving a new round of development. This new form, in turn, is an inspiring impulse for a new round - musical, visual, and so on.
The transformation and transition from one medium to another, consistent analysis and structuring of daily information are interesting for me in this works. Transferred into a dance, information appears in a new format - the format of physical energy, transmitting information at a different level of perception.
One of formulas that I work with today is the formula, which serve as the base of a series of works <at> BODY <dot> MOVE.
Briefly it can be described as follows:
<Unit of information-impulse-movement-unit Information>
Dance can be described as a series of shapes from the visible side and the information of energy flow from the back, invisible, side. Human body in the flow of information takes one form after another following the impulse, initiating the movement. It creates dance. A large part of daily information that we get from the news feeds practically does not affect us and flows as background. Placing the body as an instrument in this thread, we transform the information into a new shape, depriving the former meaning and giving a new round of development. This new form, in turn, is an inspiring impulse for a new round - musical, visual, and so on.
The transformation and transition from one medium to another, consistent analysis and structuring of daily information are interesting for me in this works. Transferred into a dance, information appears in a new format - the format of physical energy, transmitting information at a different level of perception.
Contemporary dance, video. "Room Room Room" dance festival, 5-th Moscow biennale of contemporary art, "Zeitgiest" festival
multimedia dance performance, lecture, video. Museum of contemporary art "GARAGE", New space of Theatre of Nations
Theatre performances and actions
A theatre performance is an action on many levels, a whole complex of ideas united by one main line. This is its fundamental difference from a performance (action) - a conceptual staging, where a single line is viewed from different angles and does not need to be intertwined with others.
Contemporary dance, contemporary music
Dance performance, video
Dance performance, consisting of 7 Russian dance companies works united into one piece
contemporary dance performance
at extension.art - 3 festival at Art-Residence /Moscow/
www.art-residence.ru
2012
at extension.art - 3 festival at Art-Residence /Moscow/
www.art-residence.ru
2012
Multimedia performance
Comtemporary dance, poetry, video
Marina Tsvetaeva museum
30 min.
2015
Comtemporary dance, poetry, video
Marina Tsvetaeva museum
30 min.
2015
Contemporary dance. "No translations" festival. 2011
Contemporary dance. "No translations - 1" festival. 2010. Action
Contemporary dance performance. "Open stage" project, 2009
Performances, actions, video 2004-2008
This video is compiled from excerpts from several choreographic and video works, actions from 2004 to 2008. "Philosophy of Walls", "Phases of the Moon", "Mask for body", "Cage for air", "Bacchanalia in the Garden of Stones", "21st Floor". The video is mirrored in such a way that the excerpts united as a single whole, combining a period of work of several years. Concept, choreography, video - Konstantin Grouss
Contemporary dance drama for 3 dancers, piano solo and voice (John Cage music). Krasnoyarsk musical theatre. 2008
Contemporary dance piece for 4 dancers and painter. "Action hall", Moscow. 2008
Contemporary dance piece for 5 dancers, video. State Theatre of Nations. 2005-2006
Contemporary dance piece for 4 dancers. "Tseh" dance festival. 2003-2004
Contemporary dance and music theatre. Theatre "School of dramatic art by Anatoly Vasiliev", St Gallen music festival, Austria. 2004-2006
performance-action. The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Festival "December nights – XXVI, Masks - From Myth to Carnival", Moscow, December, 2006
Curiosity about life in all its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.
Konstantin Grouss
Artist / Curator / Сhoreographer
Artistic director of 'International cultire project "Art-Residence" www.art-residence.ru
Artistic director of ZERO Dance Gallery
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Artistic director of 'International cultire project "Art-Residence" www.art-residence.ru
Artistic director of ZERO Dance Gallery
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Founder of International сulture project "Art-Residence" and «ZERO Dance Gallery»
Sphere of interest is in choreography, contemporary theatre, and integration of choreography, sculpture and video. Curatorial practice over the past years is also devoted to the study of transition from one medium into another, searching for common codes of different artistic positions.
I focus on the boundary zones between different media, searching for different types of information in both artistic and curatorial practice, which I devote equal time and attention.
Graduated from Dance and Art school and the Technical University. Studied at the "Class of expressive dance" by Gennady Abramov, Moscow. Fellow of danceWeb program, 2004, Vienna. Grant for ICR /International Choreographers In Residence/ program of ADF /American Dance Festival/, USA, 2007. Grant for SPACE Programme in contemporary art (Dublin, Ireland), 2008. Grant for Residency at OMI International Dance Collective, NY, USA, 2011. Worked with different choreographers and theatre directors: Shusaku Takeuchi (Netherlands), Yury Urnov, Valery Fokin, Tatyana Grindenko, Kirill Serebryannikov (Russia), Theodor Tezhik (Russia-Czech), Efva Lilja (Sweden), Maida Withers (USA).
Since 2009 start active work in contemporary art and became an idea creator and curator of several contemporary art festivals and exhibitions. For several years run contemporary art centre in Moscow.
"In my artistic work I try to find different paths of collaboration with dancers, musicians, artists during the time of producing a common idea and material for a new work.
I understand the creative team as sum of individuals, but strongly related to some common energy. To find this important connection everybody has to be open and very attentive at the same time. If it became possible, every moment of common experience opens new unexpected ways of living and creation.
For me it is important to be able to work in a relaxed atmosphere leading to concentration and inspiration provided by the place of work. In my opinion, the image that can be applied to artists who move from one place to another is a bee collecting pollen and nectar of information and carrying it to another place, both pollinating new processes and transforming the nectar in honey of the new art"