IVAN MISHIN
multidisciplinary artist
+7 999 168 72 81
in 1998 a boy was born in provincial town in russia.
he was named ivan, which means "a gift from God"
his father was a junkie, but his mother was regular office worker.
five years later she married a priest.
mother and computer gave him passion to art. he went to art class for children in the museum of fine art, where he was taught painting, music, sculpture and other things.
through the lens of apocalyptic & post-apocalyptic view he studies issues of north, russian and eastern identities, countryside, religion, anarchism, and post-virtual world. these researches are further projected into multi/inter/transdisciplinary art.
he was named ivan, which means "a gift from God"
his father was a junkie, but his mother was regular office worker.
five years later she married a priest.
mother and computer gave him passion to art. he went to art class for children in the museum of fine art, where he was taught painting, music, sculpture and other things.
through the lens of apocalyptic & post-apocalyptic view he studies issues of north, russian and eastern identities, countryside, religion, anarchism, and post-virtual world. these researches are further projected into multi/inter/transdisciplinary art.
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05.2022
The final exhibition of the Center of Contemporary Art "ARKA" based on the results of the art field research of the Arkhangelsk region "Ray - centr".
Arkhanglesk, Russia.
Arkhanglesk, Russia.
Selected works
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Vanya Mishin and Andrey Vatspan photo-project
June 2022
June 2022
To be the cry at 5:00 AM local time
"He was from Surah. Raspetushye: he dressed up like a man, but he would wear a headscarf. And sang like a woman. Wandered, traveled..."
Arkhangelsk region, Pinezhsky district, Verkola, Letopala village.
Arkhangelsk region, Pinezhsky district, Verkola, Letopala village.
Crossing one verge/line (gender), the raspetukh automatically crossed the metaphysical border; as a person who did not fit into social roles, he/she was associated with magical qualities.
Being resurrected in today's everyday life, the demand for local identity requires a search for one's own history, even if it was stigmatized at the time of creation. Queer culture appropriates the word "queer" that used to be an insult and turns it into a part of identity, but modernity does not allow Pomor people to experience the break of hierarchical frameworks, so in this project we take the insult "petukh" (a rooster) from the language of colonizers, from which the name of the phenomenon "raspetushye" originates.
By transforming this phenomenon, resurrecting history and working on speculation, we turn our focus to family stories, the landscape, architecture and the unique experience of us as LGBTQ+ representatives within the local community, with cyber-plant aesthetics breathing through the photos. In this project, it is important for us to perform traditionally female Pomor images, such as "ikotnitza", "goloshelnitza", etc. and to make an attempt to create a new language synthesizing the experience of the colony in the unstable history of people on our land.
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topic: "slow culture" and the mentality of "slow people" of the north, as well as the "superfluous man", referring to the tradition of the russian literature.
the temperature at which the zine was created: -27 degrees
the main concept of the choreography and the photo: confrontation with frost outside, a conflict of speeds, degrees, statics and dynamics, naked and protected. the “superfluous man” in the zine is the one who moves at the speed of light inside his head, not the body, compared with other people who move slowly in the head, but very quickly in the body.
full zine: https://vk.com/album-185209298_268758596
the temperature at which the zine was created: -27 degrees
the main concept of the choreography and the photo: confrontation with frost outside, a conflict of speeds, degrees, statics and dynamics, naked and protected. the “superfluous man” in the zine is the one who moves at the speed of light inside his head, not the body, compared with other people who move slowly in the head, but very quickly in the body.
full zine: https://vk.com/album-185209298_268758596
zine «299 792 458 m/s»
idea, photo, video: ivan mishin
dancer: viktoria kapustina (russia, arkhangelsk)
music: adiuence (russia, arkhangelsk) — strings and many other things
dancer: viktoria kapustina (russia, arkhangelsk)
music: adiuence (russia, arkhangelsk) — strings and many other things
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"goldfishconfession"
butoh web nude performance
based on the novel yukio mishima
"the temple of the golden pavilion"
part 1 - https://www.instagram.com/goldfishconfession/
part 2 - soundcloud.com/goldfishconfession
butoh web nude performance
based on the novel yukio mishima
"the temple of the golden pavilion"
part 1 - https://www.instagram.com/goldfishconfession/
part 2 - soundcloud.com/goldfishconfession
Broken knees in the waiting room.
Choose the correct answer:
A) Wedding
B) Ritual
C) Beauty contest
D) Collection
E) Brothel
F) Harem
G) Slavery
Choose the correct answer:
A) Wedding
B) Ritual
C) Beauty contest
D) Collection
E) Brothel
F) Harem
G) Slavery
dance performance «kiss me, Asphalt», 2020
director-choreographer: ivan mishin
dancers: daria baranova, viktoria kapustina, shilyakova valeria, margarita luts, marya vershinina, denis popov, ivan mishin
music: audience (el.music), leonid fedorushkov (drum) , dmitriy avdonin (flut), andrey kuznetzov (vocal)
dancers: daria baranova, viktoria kapustina, shilyakova valeria, margarita luts, marya vershinina, denis popov, ivan mishin
music: audience (el.music), leonid fedorushkov (drum) , dmitriy avdonin (flut), andrey kuznetzov (vocal)
Customized fashion collection "Smirenie"
We were inspired by the history of particular things and pieces of clothes. We were interested in lost, forgotten and abandoned things. The sites of our inspiration were the abandoned houses, landfills, "parental cabinets" and the street. We tried to rethink the things found in these places and give them a new life based on the "experience" of these things.
web-site: http://vanyamishin.tilda.ws/smirenie
more in instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/B_eYMW6qLUR/?igshid=1kw4vq0ryypvb
We were inspired by the history of particular things and pieces of clothes. We were interested in lost, forgotten and abandoned things. The sites of our inspiration were the abandoned houses, landfills, "parental cabinets" and the street. We tried to rethink the things found in these places and give them a new life based on the "experience" of these things.
web-site: http://vanyamishin.tilda.ws/smirenie
more in instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/B_eYMW6qLUR/?igshid=1kw4vq0ryypvb
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diptych photo series
wild blood & teenage dream
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a performance in the genre of physical theater based on Mayakovsky's poetry.
"НАТЕ!"
"НАТЕ!"
what do abuser, teapot, insane asylum, fatalist, tango, torn mattress and matches have in common?
it would seem a love scandal, but this story is that all people are assholes.
crazy dancer, hysterical traitor and infantile fool; family showdowns next to a psychiatric hospital, serenades about love and own greatness. this story is absurdly ordinary, hyperbolized, everyday, technically simple, sentencing and dancing, eating into the brain and being watched by you every day, disgusting to disgrace, but it should be, a little hopeless, a little tragedy, a little comedy, a ab-so-lut-ly unintelligible.
director: ivan mishin, choreographer: susanna voyushina, cast: marya verchinina - a block, natalya vetyukova, daria baranova - maria, mishin ivan, shilyakova valeria - candelabrum
trailer: https://youtu.be/n76VnAWDH_o
teasers: https://youtu.be/hK_mCZaceNU , https://youtu.be/nzhgMxwwbPI, https://youtu.be/2u8aq6n5ny8
it would seem a love scandal, but this story is that all people are assholes.
crazy dancer, hysterical traitor and infantile fool; family showdowns next to a psychiatric hospital, serenades about love and own greatness. this story is absurdly ordinary, hyperbolized, everyday, technically simple, sentencing and dancing, eating into the brain and being watched by you every day, disgusting to disgrace, but it should be, a little hopeless, a little tragedy, a little comedy, a ab-so-lut-ly unintelligible.
director: ivan mishin, choreographer: susanna voyushina, cast: marya verchinina - a block, natalya vetyukova, daria baranova - maria, mishin ivan, shilyakova valeria - candelabrum
trailer: https://youtu.be/n76VnAWDH_o
teasers: https://youtu.be/hK_mCZaceNU , https://youtu.be/nzhgMxwwbPI, https://youtu.be/2u8aq6n5ny8
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work in progress of performance "monkey with a gun"
this is a fun and scary game for children with guns, this is a divine conversation with our ancestors about the origins of the school of violence and violence at school, this is a cult, this is a story of evolution and a point of no return.
music: anton messer (yzymyr)
director-choreographer: ivan mishin
dancers: daria zhukova, ksenia engel, maria vershinina, polina brik, natalia vetyukova, viktoria kapustina
shooting: konstantine varfolameyev
video editing: ivan mishin
music: anton messer (yzymyr)
director-choreographer: ivan mishin
dancers: daria zhukova, ksenia engel, maria vershinina, polina brik, natalia vetyukova, viktoria kapustina
shooting: konstantine varfolameyev
video editing: ivan mishin
"russian hiroshima"
photo-performance, 2019
— ashes from the sky fall into the eye from which everything becomes rainbow. people pray and fool around, in search of the meanings of the remaining short time period. pay attention to the details of the world in which you live! iodine and milk will not save you from a nuclear explosion in your head when you see all the beauty of the world and the ability to come up with so many games. turning over reality, they rummage around in the suitcases and attics of their skull boxes, looking for memories from the past, dreams and "that which did not succeed".
director, editor, conception: vanya mishin
ph: margrarita lutz, diana makkoveeva
actors:
margarita lutz, marya vershinina, anna khorishko, marina vargasova, aleksandra nemanova, ulyana kal, anastasia kocheburova, timofey artemyev, nikita istomin, zukhridin abdulaev, elizaveta serebryakova, marina vorobyeva, valeria korobleva, ekaterina groppius, vanya mishin, aleksandra gladkaya, daria zemlyanaya, ksenia korelskaya.
photo-performance, 2019
— ashes from the sky fall into the eye from which everything becomes rainbow. people pray and fool around, in search of the meanings of the remaining short time period. pay attention to the details of the world in which you live! iodine and milk will not save you from a nuclear explosion in your head when you see all the beauty of the world and the ability to come up with so many games. turning over reality, they rummage around in the suitcases and attics of their skull boxes, looking for memories from the past, dreams and "that which did not succeed".
director, editor, conception: vanya mishin
ph: margrarita lutz, diana makkoveeva
actors:
margarita lutz, marya vershinina, anna khorishko, marina vargasova, aleksandra nemanova, ulyana kal, anastasia kocheburova, timofey artemyev, nikita istomin, zukhridin abdulaev, elizaveta serebryakova, marina vorobyeva, valeria korobleva, ekaterina groppius, vanya mishin, aleksandra gladkaya, daria zemlyanaya, ksenia korelskaya.
— story without words.
from darkness to light. about people without people. exit like decision and resolution. question without answer. bless and pray.
from darkness to light. about people without people. exit like decision and resolution. question without answer. bless and pray.
Artemia Verkolsky monastery, 2020.
ZINE "VÝHOD"
"I bury my nest" photo-zine - a longread presentation
the museum of simple people
the principles on which the museum is build:
— eco-friendliness and recycling, creation of art objects without any additional resources.
— humanism and anthropology: the main concept of the museum is within realization of every human life’s value. not just lives of subjectively unique people, but every life is worthy of a museum.
— site-specific art: the museum’s works are always conceptually interacting with space of an exposition, bonding a personal story with stories of houses, churches, settlements, cities.
We create expositions dedicated to real and fictional people basing on information and artifacts found in places of a research and present these in a form of museum exhibitions accompanied by excursions and mediations.
the principles on which the museum is build:
— eco-friendliness and recycling, creation of art objects without any additional resources.
— humanism and anthropology: the main concept of the museum is within realization of every human life’s value. not just lives of subjectively unique people, but every life is worthy of a museum.
— site-specific art: the museum’s works are always conceptually interacting with space of an exposition, bonding a personal story with stories of houses, churches, settlements, cities.
We create expositions dedicated to real and fictional people basing on information and artifacts found in places of a research and present these in a form of museum exhibitions accompanied by excursions and mediations.
exposition №1
Kego island
"Korovnik" group exhibition
Kego island
"Korovnik" group exhibition
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exposition №2
Morschihinskaya village
Morschihinskaya village
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the end
ivan (vanya) mishin
11.11.1998
russia, arkhangelsk
ma.vania.mishin@gmail.com
+7 999 168 72 81
instagram - @vanechka.mishin
11.11.1998
russia, arkhangelsk
ma.vania.mishin@gmail.com
+7 999 168 72 81
instagram - @vanechka.mishin
