In 2020, the 7th International Public Art Festival Art Prospect simultaneously brings together 23 cities and 13 countries in an online-offline format. The festival showcases augmented reality works at the Ivan Gaza Palace of Culture (St. Petersburg), as well as interventions viewable both online and offline. This new format allows us to host scheduled events despite the COVID-19 pandemic by abiding by safety guidelines, and to significantly expand the festival audience. Art Prospect’s theme for 2020 is Treasure Hunt. Treasure is a metaphor for a “new age, ” for our artists’ emotions and experiences while isolated and their interpretation of the boundaries between public and private.
During the festival dates (October 15–18, 2020), residents in each of the participating artists’ cities were able to see in person works (interventions) that the artists have created in their own public/visible yet private zones — balconies, windows, yards and courtyards — or while socially distancing (on bridges, at intersections, in the mountains).
Interventions in 12 countries
Australia
Sarah Burrell (Melbourne), Hello Wanderer
Azerbaijan
Gafar Rzayev (Ganja), Boy with White Bedsheet
Belarus
Alice Murlina (Minsk), Home2020
Nadya Sayapina (Minsk), Trash Art Cache
Georgia
Mikheil Sulakauri (Tbilisi), Be Careful What You Wish For
Kazakhstan
Pasha Cas (Almaty), One-Person Protest
Meruert Kunakova (Almaty), Shash (Kazakh for “hair”)
Mariam Talibjanova (Almaty), Secrets of My Wise Grandmother’s Bequest
Kyrgyzstan
Moldova
Ciprian Antoci (Chisinau), Bricks
Russia
Nastia Babitskaya (St. Petersburg, Russia), Vacation
Anna and Vitaly Chereponov (Yekaterinburg, Russia), Autumn in a Collective Garden
Tanya Chernomordova (St. Petersburg, Russia), Murav’inaya Skhvatka (Ant Fight)
Liubov Chernysheva (St. Petersburg, Russia), WindOurs
Karina Dracheva (St. Petersburg, Russia), I Danced Here
Fedor Dubrovin (Khyymalakasy, Chuvash Republic, Russia), Our House (Consumers)
Ulyana Erokhina (St. Petersburg, Russia), Let’s Warm This Time Up
Tonya Fa (St. Petersburg, Russia), Flight Cancelled
Fedor Hiroshiga (St. Petersburg, Russia), I Can Feel the Distance
Nadia Ishkinyaeva and Marina Shamova (St. Petersburg, Russia), Paths of Care
Evgeny Korelin (St. Petersburg, Russia) and Yulia Vedernikova (Perm, Russia), Your Inner Space
Nastya Makarenko and Anna Tereshkina (St. Petersburg, Russia), Alarm System (a play in lights)
Alexandra Melnikova (Tyumen, Russia), Safe Distance
MorMir20 (PlagueWorld20) (St. Petersburg, Russia), Group Exhibition at Kunsthalle nummer sieben
Konstantin Novikov (St. Petersburg, Russia), Wind Catcher
Punctuation (Yekaterina Polyakova, Natalya Tikhonova, Ivan Shatravin-Dostov),
(St. Petersburg, Russia), Green Corridor
Vladimir Seleznyov (Yekaterinburg, Russia), Window Suprematism
Alexander Shishkin-Hokusai (St. Petersburg, Russia), Firefighter Fountain
Daria Taran (St. Petersburg, Russia), Legends and Myths
Galya Yaptik (St. Petersburg, Russia), “Our” Home Photo Studio on the Balcony
Sasha Zubritskaya (St. Petersburg, Russia), Penultima
Tajikistan
Khurshed Rasulzade (Dushanbe), Rapunzel
Ukraine
Victoria Myronyuk (Kolomiya), What happens next, for instance
USA
Andy Graydon (Minneapolis, MN), Great Refractor Listening Station (Breathing Room St. Petersburg)
Alisa Dworsky & Danny Sagan (Montpelier, VT), Interspace
Theresa Columbus, Skyler Fort, Megan Lovely & Tavia La Follette (Baltimore, MD),Exposure
KOSMOLOGYM (Harrisonburg, VA) Dirtball: Fruiting Body
Luisa Caldwell (Brooklyn, NY), I Spy Butterfly
Will Owen (Philadelphia, PA), Friendship Games
Terry S. Hardy (Lawrenceville, GA), REMAINING: treasure of memory
Elana Herzog (Manhattan, NY), The Palace at 9am
Robert Hickman (Brooklyn, NY), Symbolic Crossing of the 1st Krasnenky Bridge
Ed Woodham (Brooklyn, NY), Red String Theory
Uzbekistan
Vakhid Kazimov (Tashkent), Tashkent and Seattle: A Story of Sister Cities
Augmented Reality at the Ivan Gaza Palace of Culture, St. Petersburg
Vladimir Abikh (St. Petersburg, Russia), Time Has Passed
Annie Albagi (San Francisco, CA), A Breath Together
APXIV (ARCHIVE) (Russia, Germany, England) ANTIfrieze
Dagnini (Moscow, Russia), Attention Choir
Deus ExCavator (Kerim Ragimov and Petr Shvetsov, St. Petersburg), John Silver
Joshua Goode (Fort Worth, Texas), The Discovery of the Chupacabra
Olesya Ilenok (Yekaterinburg, Russia), Wall_for_scroll
Dmitri Kavka (Moscow, Russia) Tautobot (from the Greek ταὐτός, “the same” + bot)
Anna Martynenko (St. Petersburg, Russia) Stone Masonry and The Parrots of DK Gaza
Nikita Seleznev (St. Petersburg, Russia), The tulips are too excitable — it’s winter here