Industrial Eden

November 13 – 23, 2013

Following the major exposition in Modern Art Research Institute the project “Industrial Eden” in Mystetsky Arsenal is purposed is to identify the factors that emerged with the industrial revolution and continue to guide the development of modern society.

The industrial age began with the hope that human life, work and thinking can be arranged with the same easiness as machines’ and cars’ construction.

Since that time, people are more likely to trust technology than themselves. To restore the confidence in own abilities, they begin to act like machines, using a variety of tools for correction of mind and body. This is the origin of all subsequent technocratic attitude to the man that dominated the twentieth century, according to the project curators Andriy Sydorenko and Iryna Yatsyk.

Today such ideology has transformed into a futuristic dream of resettlement of consciousness into a computer, outlining a new horizon of social utopias.

"Industrial Eden" is the 6-th project under the Ukrainian platform "New Directions", introduced by the Modern Art Research Institute National Academy of Arts supported by The Ministry of Culture of Ukraine.

Their vision of utopia built on boundless faith in the scientific and technical progress will present: Anton Logov, Elmira Sydyak, Oksana Kurchanova, Andriy Sydorenko, Yuriy Syvyryn, GAZ Group, Yaroslav Solop, Stepan Ryabchenko, Lana Yankovska, Danilo Shumihin.

Project director:
Natalia Shpitkovskaya

Project coordinator:
Ekaterina Zots