A still from Carry Each Other (video; 09:20), a film about women-immigrants from Ukraine and South America in Italy
versity of Ideas of Michelangelo Pistoletto Foundation, Cittadellarte in Biella, Italy. This program had an influence on my subsequent practice. During last three years I have been travelling as an artist and made several community based projects, video works, installations, workshops for local communities in different countries. In Italy in 2011 I made a video about Ukrainian immigrants, women, who work as caretakers for elderly Italian people. Later in India I explored a women’s fate in rural Rajasthan and made a performance with local girls and a film Time Conservation. In 2012 during 2 months I worked in northern Norway in Sami commune, filmed several stories about classical and modern nomads I met there. Surprisingly I have found the matriarchy is still exist in that community. So that time again my interest was connected to sociology of gender and natural environment. Winter 2013 I supposed to spent in Tanzania doing research about children games related to the landscape, but faced that globalisation has changed even children’s approach in poor areas. That’s why my last art projects explore the idea of imperfection of capitalism and irresponsible waste of resources in a consumer society. Against current system of
consumerism was created a video project SALE for public space in collaboration with two other artists. We selected more than 20 video works from around the world and showed in Moscow during Public Art Festival and later in local market in Cambrige, UK. As an artist I would like to make my own contribution to the improvement of our society, to try to stop harmful actions like humiliation of the weak, to activate public for responsible transformation, to contribute in building a smart infrastructure of contemporary world.
Ekaterina Craftsova