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Conference program
This is a preliminary program, it may change. Please look for the updates on this website. All events will be available for watching and commenting online. Links will appear in this section and on the social media of the conference.
All events will take place by Moscow time.
On approach to the program formation
Hospitality is an experience that sprung up in the life of humanity from the very beginning; it is a concept, which allows to describe the prehistoric that a person has not witnessed; it is a practice that is present at all possible social layers; it is the reality that species face on the cusp of change. This is something that differs from culture to culture, something that cannot be just grasped, because it is spilled in everyday life, because it wiggles like a many-headed Hydra, bursting through closed borders, or through the absurdity of classical bureaucracy and rudeness.
The very word "conference" derives from the Latin "confero" — "to collect in one place, bring in one place." Through centuries, the word conference became to be interpreted almost exclusively as a collection of opinions. Following the logic of hospitality, we strive to escape the clutches of opinion and create a joint space of experience at our conference. In fact, this means that guests don’t have a label with their topic: each is assigned an anchor expertise, but each is invited to a variety of experiences.

This fusion approach to formats will create a space of compatibility, where theoretical, practical and artistic perspectives, subject to the manifested power of hospitality, can lead one, perhaps never-ending, but important and fruitful conversation.
About the program
Morning
Networking breakfast
Practical perspective
Day
Curated lunch
Theoretical perspective
Evening
Practical perspective
Artistic perspective
Thursday, November 25
Day 1, Day of Expectations
from 10:00
Registration of participants

📍 Volga-Vyatka Branch of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts (Arsenal)
10:00−11:00
Breakfast with Art Residences of Russia

Business breakfast for representatives of 30 art residences from Russia. Here, the first methodological publication about art residences in Russian will be introduced for discussion in professional community.


📍 Volga-Vyatka Branch of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts (Arsenal)
11:00, 12:00
🧩
Dive into the local context. Excursions
  • Visit to the art studio “Tikhaya” and the workshops of Nizhny Novgorod artists with registration
  • Excursion to the spaces of the Arsenal with registration

📍Volga-Vyatka Branch of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts (Arsenal)

12:00−13:30
Design Expectations Session
For online participants

📍Volga-Vyatka branch of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts (Arsenal)
13:00−14:00
🍲Lunch
14:00−16:00
Theoretical session

📍Volga-Vyatka Branch of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts (Arsenal)
16:00−16:30
☕Coffee break
16:30−18:00
Design Expectations Session
For offline participants

📍Volga-Vyatka Branch of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts (Arsenal)
19:00−22:00
Transfer to Vyksa
Organized bus transfer
from 19:00 and during the transfer
🧩
Dive into the local context.
Audio introduction to the legacy of Vladimir Shukhov in the Nizhny Novgorod region

Here you can download podcasts for the exhibition “Shukhov. Formula of architecture” and listen to them on the way to Vyksa.
Hospitality Practices
PERFORMAT Group “Gestures of hospitality”
Friday, November 26
Day 2, Day of Encounter
8:30−10:00
Breakfast together
09:00
🧩
Dive into the local context.
Excursions
  • Sightseeing tour of Vyksa from the VMZ History Museum;
  • Visit to the industrial street art park and production along the guest route with registration

📍 Plant, industrial park

  • Excursion to the main exposition of the VMZ History Museum; Tour of the exhibition “Shukhov. Formula of architecture"; Guided tour of the Museum's temporary art exhibitions: exhibition of Ivan Belov, November resident of the Vyksa AIR art residence; exhibition "At the edge of nature: Black forest" with registration

📍 VMZ History Museum
9:30−11:20
Involve viewers: complicity, co-creation, community
Case studies

📍 Lepse DK, small hall
10:00−12:00
Architecture of hospitality and inclusion
Session

📍 «Batashev» hotel, large hall

Sustainability in art, architecture, residences
Partner session of the Reside / Sustain project: Art residences and sustainable development in Finland and Russia

📍 «Batashev» hotel, large hall
11:30−13:00
Strategies for art residences facing a new reality

📍 Lepse DK, small hall
13:00−14:00
14:00−14:30
Opening ceremony of the conference
 📍 «Batashev» hotel, large hall
14:00
Dive into the local context
Excursions

  • Sightseeing tour of Vyksa from the VMZ History Museum with registration
  • Visit to the industrial street art park and production along the guest route

📍 “Batashev” hotel, reseption

  • Excursion to the main exposition of the VMZ History Museum; Tour of the exhibition “Shukhov. Formula of architecture"; Guided tour of the Museum's temporary art exhibitions: exhibition of Ivan Belov, November resident of the Vyksa AIR art residence; exhibition "At the edge of nature: Black forest" with registration

📍 VMZ History Museum
14:00−16:30
Contemporary hospitality contexts
General session
Moderator: Maria Lind
Speakers: Ki Nurmenniemi, Yonatan Habib Enquist, Tara Elfing, Sylvie Fortin

📍 «Batashev» hotel, large hall
16:30−17:00
☕ Coffee break
17:00−18:30
Culture of the deaf and sign language fundamentals
Workshop with registration

📍 «Batashev» hotel, small hall

Art residence: from open call to new work formats
Open discussion

📍 «Batashev» hotel, large hall

Sustainable behavior and habits in art (Reside / Sustain)
Workshop together with the Reside / Sustain program: Art residencies and sustainable development in Finland and Russia with registration

📍 Ex Libris Space
17:30−19:00
19:30−21:00
🧩
Film program
Films about Vyksa:
  • "Passion for Martin" (37 ')
  • "The art of the common man" (44 ')

📍 Lepse DK, small hall
19:00
Secular and business etiquette as a tool for forming a hospitable reputation
Workshop with registration

📍«Batashev» hotel, small hall
19:00
🧩
Dive into the local context
Fantasy excursion "Vyksa, which did not exist" from the head of the Vyksa tourist information center Alexander Baykin with registration

📍 “Batashev” hotel, reseption

Practices of hospitality
Yozhi Stolet and Alexandra Pistoletova "Family holiday or receiving dear guests" with registration

📍 «Vyksa» art residence

PERFORMAT Group "Gestures of hospitality"

📍 Lepse DK
Saturday, November 27
Day 3, Day of Process and Immersion
09:30-10:30
Dive into the local context
Excursions
Excursion to the main exposition of the VMZ History Museum; Tour of the exhibition “Shukhov. Formula of architecture"; Guided tour of the Museum's temporary art exhibitions: exhibition of Ivan Belov, November resident of the Vyksa AIR art residence; exhibition "At the edge of nature: Black forest" with registration

📍 “Batashev” hotel, reseption
09:30−11:20
Inclusive aspect of forming institutional programs
Session

📍 «Batashev» hotel, large hall


Art residences: looking for clear format boundaries
Session

📍 Lepse DK, small hall


Consulting session from the manager of competition at the Vladimir Potanin Charitable Foundation "Industrial Experiment"
Session

📍 «Batashev» hotel, small hall
11:30−13:00
Chains of Residences and associations: Association of Art Residences of Russia, QUINCHO, Transartist, IASPIS
Session
Moderator: Zhenya Chaika
Speakers: Kristina Gorlanova, Lena Malm, Arda van Tiggelen, Pablo Kadigaris, Frederic Hardwendel

📍 «Batashev» hotel, large hall

Why art residences are needed everywhere or a universal support tool
Session
Moderator: Alina Streltsova
Luc Mayer, Maria Lind, Anna Arutyunova, Maria Kotlyachkova

📍 Lepse DK, small hall
12:00-13:0
🧩
Hospitality Practices
Installation "Materials of hospitality" by Leonid Batalov, a Vyksa AIR resident, artist and architect

📍 Lepse DK, entrance hall on the second floor
12:00, 13:00
🧩
Focus on architecture
Tour of the new building VYKSA AIR (modernist cafe "Volna") by Sergei Nebotov and presentation presentation of the film program from VAC curator Andrey Vasilenko with registration

📍 “Batashev” hotel, reseption

13:00−14:00
🍲 Lunch
with registration
14:00−16:00
Hospitality as a subject and a frame for artistic expression
General Session
📍 «Batashev» hotel, large hall
14:00
Dive into the local context
Excursions
Excursion to the main exposition of the VMZ History Museum; Tour of the exhibition “Shukhov. Formula of architecture"; exhibition "At the edge of nature: Black forest" with registration
Excursion from Elena Stolyarova "Where the past reigns: a journey through the historical center" by registration

📍 “Batashev” hotel, reseption

17:00
☕ Coffee break
17:00−18:30
Museum hospitality standards
Workshop with registration

📍 Ex Libris Space

Sensory safety as a factor for hospitality and openness
Online-workshop with registration

📍 «Batashev» hotel, small hall

I don't complain and I like everything
Artists on the Residences hospitality experience with registration

📍 «Vyksa» art residence
17:00
🧩
Focus on architecture
Discussing the book "Mir Metro" by the artist and researcher Katharina Gruzei (Austria) in a dialogue with the architecture historian Anna Bronovitskaya (Russia)


📍 «Batashev» hotel, large hall
17:30-19:20
19:30-21:30
🧩
Film program
Films by artists-guests of the conference: K R I S T E N M I L L S (USA), Andrea Seidling (Austria), Taus Makhachova (Russia)
Discussion with artists

📍 Lepse DK, small hall
19:00
🧩
Hospotality practices
PERFORMAT group «Gestures of hospitality» with registration
📍 Lepse DK, 1st floor
19:30
🧩
Focus on architecture
Presentation of the book Moscow Cinema Project by Vasilena Grankovski (Austria), a resident of the CTI Fabrika in 2018, in an interview with the curator of the CTI Fabrika Kristina Pestova

📍 Ex Libris Space
Sunday, November 28
Day 4, Day of Goodbyes and Promises
09:00
🧩
Dive in the local context
Visit to the industrial street art park and production along the guest route

📍 Plant, industrial park
10:00−11:30
Industrial hospitality
Discussion

📍 «Batashev» hotel, large hall
10:00−12:00
Evaluate. What does feedback tell us about our past and future projects?
Seminar with registration

📍 «Batashev» hotel, small hall

How museums imagine their audience
Discussion

📍 Lepse DK, small hall
11:30−13:00
New Territories for Contemporary Art
Open talk

📍 Lepse DK, large hall
12:00−13:30
The role of a mediator in the artistic process: curator, mentor, mediator
Open talk

📍 «Batashev» hotel, small hall
12:00
🧩
Film program
"More than you expect." Art Residences program of the 6th Ural Biennale of Contemporary Art. Episodes:
  • "DAKC. German Academy of Contemporary Art in Chelyabinsk" (41 ');
  • "The tale of how a Tagil boy Vitya Starukhin became the Japanese baseball player Viktor Starfin" (28 ').
Discussion with the program curator Vladimir Seleznev

📍 Lepse DK, small hall


Dive into the local context
Excursions
Excursion to the main exposition of the VMZ History Museum; Tour of the exhibition “Shukhov. Formula of architecture"; exhibition "At the edge of nature: Black forest" with registration

📍 “Batashev” hotel, reseption
12:00, 13:00
🧩
Focus on architecture
Tour of the new building VYKSA AIR (modernist cafe "Volna") by Sergei Nebotov and presentation presentation of the film program from VAC curator Andrey Vasilenko with registration

📍 “Batashev” hotel, reseption
13:00−14:00
🍲 Lunch
with registration
14:00−15:30
Activists and Facilitators: Models of Interaction of Cultural Institutions with Underrepresented Communities
Communication event with registration

📍 «Batashev» hotel, small hall

Building the confidence: ways of art residences to gentle interaction with each other
Open talk

📍 «Batashev» hotel, large hall
14:00−16:00
🧩
Film program
"More than you expect." Art Residences program of the 6th Ural Biennale of Contemporary Art. Episodes:
  • "Ringing trail" (47 ');
  • “Tagil school. Artists and Phenomena "(42 ').
Discussion with the curator of the program Vladimir Seleznev

📍 Lepse DK, small hall
19:00-20:00
online
🧩
Hospitality practices
PERFORMAT group «Gestures of hospitality» with registration
15:00−19:00
Home hospitality or the art of talking to neighbors
Open session of communication and acquaintance with registration.
Speakers: Arda van Tiggelen, Yulia Bardun, Lukash Krobok, Zhenya Chaika

📍 online
15:40−17:00
Building the confidence: ways of art residences to gentle interaction with each other
Open talk

📍 «Batashev» hotel, large hall

We do not say goodbye: how to extend care by saying goodbye
Open talk

📍 «Batashev» hotel, small hall