Luna Nera was invited to participate in FLOODPLAIN OF TIME, a landscape intervention in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. The project was conceived by Nizhny artist Eugene Strelkov of group Dirizhable, wiht co-participation of Dirizhable group, Sphere group and other local artists..
     

 

Floodplain of Time Flash Movie

The Artists

The Site

Gallery

Paper Eden

Luna Nera projects - Gillian McIver, Sandrine Albert, Valentina Floris, Chris Singer

photo/video Gillian McIver

Many thanks to Anna Gor of the Centre for Contemporary Art, The Soros Foundation for supporting the project, Svetlana Phillipova, Ekaterina Ryndyk of Volga Television, Dmitri Ivanov-Snejko and Marina Perchikhina.

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The Process

The work was all created only for the event. Most of the work was made on the site using materials specific to the site and/or the locality.

The artists created individual and collaborative works in different areas of the site, coming together to present a complete environmental transformation of the site, using the natural factors of light, wind and water.The works used the elements available on the site, many of which were unpredictable: found objects, weather (wind, rain, sun), the river.

None of the artistic works that were shown can be re-created or re-exhibited for consumption, and exist now only on photograph, video, and memory. This is the essence of site-specific work.