MONUMENT
8 Channels of Discarded Land and Time
Max Rykov, Michael Chernoff
Multi-channel video installation (10 minutes)
On display at Superblue Miami as part of Chroma Art and Film Festival 2024Part
This multimedia display features video loopings of archival VHS recordings of television broadcasts in Buffalo, and Ukrainian TV commercials of the 90s and 2000s on seven analog televisions.
Projections behind them display documentary footage of decaying industrial landscapes in America (Buffalo, NY and Potomac, MD) and Soviet-era Ukrainian bus stops. The installation invites viewers to realize how we grant screens the power to perpetuate illusions while erasing the harsh realities of the past and present.
Zupynka Redux
Max Rykov
Video installation (4 min)
Part of PRESERVATION duo-exhibition with Colton Teri.
Washington, D.C., November 2023.
Part
Reflections on the fading art form of Ukrainian mosaic bus stops are displayed between three CRT televisions in Zupynka Redux. The performance was shot at the Academy of Arts, Architecture, and Design (UMPRUM) in Prague, incorporating mosaic fragments and flyposting advertisements that once plastered damaged bus stops.
The installation includes supplementary footage and images from Art Zupynka expeditions, provided by Olena Vesela.
Art Zupynka | Founded and led by Viktoria Zubenko and Olena Vesela.
Zupynka Redux | Shot and constructed by Max Rykov. Production by Max Rykov, Olena Vesela, Pavel Sandul. Modeled by Lilit Lisa.
Zupynka Redux ECHO/BYWAY/FRAGMENT | Print series by Max Rykov & Colton Teri
Hindsight (deconstructed)
Max Rykov
VHS essay film video installation (6 min)
Part of PRESERVATION duo-exhibition with Colton Teri.
Washington, D.C., November 2023.
A look at the fragility of our roots, the impermanence of our cultures, and the transience of our freedoms through the lens of a traveling VHS camera in the late 1990s. Hindsight offers a visual meditation on the memories of two young Ukrainians emerging from the fall of the Iron Curtain. This installation deconstructs the film between six analog televisions with supplemental text from the original commentary.
Material was captured by Anna Rykova and Igor Rykov between 1995 and 2004.
AV Support by James Subia.
Installation Support by Colton Teri, Soniya Picard, Jessica LaFratta, Bebe Hanson, Lehna Berg.
