LINDEN OR MONDAY BEGINS ON SATURDAY
Performance,Bogdana projectspace, Kyiv, 2021
In collaboration with Nikolay Karabinovych
Curated by Nikita Kadan
“Linden Or Monday Begins On Saturday” has a clear chronology and structure. Artist marked the beginning of the event with the help of at completely asshole ringing the bell, according to the theater held 3 times. After that, an inside-out psychoanalytic session took place behind closed doors. The psychoanalysis session lasted about half an hour. The usual unremarkable session, one of a million that take place every minute around the globe. At the end there was a certain failure and we saw a figure.
The appearance of the naked figure of the psychoanalyst, its presentation to the participants in the event is the climax. He dis-appeared, dissolving into the human mass.
In psychoanalysis, and especially in the one to which Harri Kraievets belong — the Lacanian school — lies a structuralist practice based on language. In his theatrical exercise, the main character, Lipa, falls into a psychosis. This text, which they also presented, is completely different in its linguistic structure. It becomes geopolitics, as if the people of Ukraine speak for some master. The text is a reference to the Deleuze idea: madness or delirium is always geopolitics.
The next move — the psychoanalyst’s male body was painted with signifiers. This is a withdrawal into the real: when a psychosis occurs, everything is flooded, everything becomes as if under water and subject to words out of place. And the most interesting thing they noticed at the end was that no one stood on the flag, which was at the same time a shroud lying on the floor and covering the vacuum cleaner. It wasn’t trampled. In the process, the fear of trampling on the flag was revealed, although it was placed on purpose to be dirty.





photography by Polina Polikarpova