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from May 30 to June 3
Location: Youth Center halls of the State Hermitage in the Main Headquarters

The “Timekeeper” International Multimedia Project will be presented in the Youth Center halls of the State Hermitage Museum in the Main Headquarters.

Participants: Alexandra Dementieva (Belgium), Arnold Jacobs (Belgium), Anna Frants (USA-Russia), Koen Theys (Belgium), and a collection of time-related letters by Lea Sturtridge (USA-Germany).
Curator: Sofia Kudryavtseva.

Time, relentless and indifferent, serves as a driving force. It compels humans to seek understanding and to be understood, drives them to create something more significant than themselves, and defines their purpose.

The works displayed at the exhibition, far removed from daily anger and immediate reactions to current events, gain significance today as History reasserts its demands on each of us. Reflections on Time are more relevant than ever.

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An article by Silvia Bertoletti describes the traveling group exhibition about Time
Posted on: 8 August 2012

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A traveling group exhibition examining the presence of past, present and future… between St Petersburg, Brussels, Istanbul, Berlin and Brooklyn. Three artists developed the theme of Time in its different dimensions (the present, the past and the future): Alexandra Dementieva, Anna Frants & Aernoudt Jacobs.

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Instead of paints and canvases, monitors and computer programs are used at this international festival of contemporary art. Over ten days, visitors can experience media object exhibitions, installations, and vibrant performances.

Don’t look for harmony in conceptual music. Englishman Sam Conran calls himself a sound production alchemist, and that’s it. No comments, no interviews. If you want to understand, just listen!

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