Anna Jermolaewa

Political Extras, 2015

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Political Extras
Ansicht: Werterauschen, Schloss Biesdorf, Berlin, Germany, 2021
Political Extras
Ansicht: Werterauschen, Schloss Biesdorf, Berlin, Germany, 2021
Political Extras
Ansicht: Werterauschen, Schloss Biesdorf, Berlin, Germany, 2021
Political Extras
Ansicht: Werterauschen, Schloss Biesdorf, Berlin, Germany, 2021
Political Extras
Ansicht: Werterauschen, Schloss Biesdorf, Berlin, Germany, 2021
Political Extras
Ansicht: Werterauschen, Schloss Biesdorf, Berlin, Germany, 2021
Political Extras
Ansicht: 6th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, VDNKh, Moscow, 2015
Political Extras
Ansicht: 6th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, VDNKh, Moscow, 2015
Political Extras
Ansicht: 6th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, VDNKh, Moscow, 2015
Political Extras
Ansicht: 6th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, VDNKh, Moscow, 2015
Political Extras
Ansicht: 6th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, VDNKh, Moscow, 2015
Political Extras
Ansicht: 6th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, VDNKh, Moscow, 2015
Political Extras
Ansicht: 6th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, VDNKh, Moscow, 2015
Political Extras
Ansicht: 6th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, VDNKh, Moscow, 2015
Political Extras
Ansicht: 6th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, VDNKh, Moscow, 2015
Political Extras
Ansicht: 6th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, VDNKh, Moscow, 2015
Political Extras
Ansicht: 6th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, VDNKh, Moscow, 2015
Political Extras
Ansicht: 6th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, VDNKh, Moscow, 2015
Political Extras
Ansicht: 6th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, VDNKh, Moscow, 2015
Political Extras
Ansicht: 6th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, VDNKh, Moscow, 2015
Political Extras
Ansicht: 6th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, VDNKh, Moscow, 2015

Für Political Extras organisierte die Künstlerin eine bezahlte Massendemonstration auf der Biennale in Moskau. Über die Website www.massovki.ru wurden etwa hundert Demonstrant:innen angeheuert, um sowohl für als auch gegen die Biennale zu demonstrieren. Als Belohnung wurde ihnen ein kleines Honorar angeboten – in Anlehnung an die üblichen Methoden einiger politischer Pro-Putin-Demonstrationen in Russland. Indem sie ihren politischen Körper verkaufen, werden die Demonstrant:innen zu bloßen Symbolen einer gekauften Medienmanipulation unter dem Deckmantel einer demokratischen Form des Protests.

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For Political Extras, the artist organized a paid-for mass demonstration at the Moscow Biennale. Through the website www.massovki.ru, about a hundred demonstrators were hired to demonstrate both for and against the Biennale. As a reward they were offered a small honorarium—following the practice of some pro-Putin political demonstrations in Russia. By selling their political body, protesters become mere symbols of purchased media manipulation in the guise of a democratic form of protest.

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http://moscowbiennale.syg.ma/prodazha-politichieskogho-tiela-1

http://moscowbiennale.syg.ma/protiest-i-iegho-gholaia-zhizn