by
Anna Frants
Multimedia
Installation
2008
The
effect of listening to Beethoven is
want to "...tell people sweet stupid things and caress their heads
instead of smashing in those heads mercilessly..." – Lenin
Lenin
stated that he could not listen to
Beethoven's sonata because if he did he would never finish the
revolution. In Frants' Fur
die Stadt, hungry foot soldiers
fight in a videotaped dance for survival to "Moonlight
Sonata"...
FUR
DIE STADT (for
the city) Pigeons foraging in cold snow of St Petersburg this past
winter migrate all the way to New York for spring. Anna Frants'
multimedia installations of Russian city street pigeons scavenging for
food have landed on both sides of the East River. Undeterred by the
bustling public street around them, Frants video/sound projections of
feathered city inhabitants go about their business in the front window
of Dam Stuhltrager Gallery in Brooklyn at the Chelsea Art Museum in
Manhattan.
Connecting
life as an artist in Russia
and in America, Frants' video is set in a frozen, harsh and unforgiving
setting where occupants are filmed amidst routine of working hard to
find and claim their daily bread. Among the crowd, one bird has notably
different movements and it becomes clear he/she is sick or injured. Set
to Beethoven's Sonata, the impeded pigeon is the weakest in the bunch
but nonetheless uniquely different, and thus rises as the star.
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