With his new animation series called “Crash Test” -of quite minimal aesthetics, Alexey Buldakov characterizes some abstract symbols with physical properties. In this way, the world of virtual and abstract symbols gains the properties of a real world.

The video-installation “Signal / Wave” of Kirill Preobrazhenskii is a remake of the performance he presented in Odessa in 1989 (see documentation on the flat screen monitor in the main gallery room). The performance is re-enacted, this time in collaboration with Radek Community and on the occasion of the Berlin show at PLAY.
Starting with the title of the work itself, Preobrazhenskii deals with two main concepts of media terminology: “signal” and “wave”. There must be a signal (or impulse) provided and transmitted within the different types of waves. In this case, these concepts are dealt with in the installation in a metaphorical way and the relations between them are rather paradoxical: whistling people are producing a signal and, somehow, initiate a wave; still, the whistles could even be a reaction to the coming wave.
The sound of the installation is original; it was remixed by Pino Grzybowsky (aka Dr. Scissors).

“Dead Concert” is the first public appearance of the HEY!!! Group, a new musical project conceived and produced by Petr Bystrov.
The special event -specifically conceived for the opening of the “Re-action” exhibition at PLAY_gallery for still and motion pictures- is not a “live” concert. It is a “dead” concert instead and will be shown just once, as it would happen if it were a real concert. Being neither a video-clip nor a filmed concert, this event happens “here and now” and it is presented to the very audience and visitors of the exhibition.

In his works, Maxim Karakulov generally analyses the mechanisms of social solidarization. With “Photo Still”, he works on the phenomenon of group portrait, which he considers a social ritual. It is generally believed that a group photo always gives us an objective view on the relation of any kind of collective posing in front of the camera (families, students, colleagues, etc.). But this is actually not that simple.  With “Photo Still”, Karakulov deconstructs the objectivity of photography making us understand how complicated an evident gesture is.

Sasha Korneev presents “Krasnaya Malina”, a home porno-movie that he directed and produced himself.