KRONSTADT 2004 “Interconnection”

"Interconnection" is a project about trans-communication, about meetings, merging and creating something new out of what is already there.

Site Specificity and Site Response

The project took place in and around a derelict naval storehouse set in a leafy patch of ground by the canal, in the centre of Kronstadt.

Luna Nera’s work involves the detournément of “waste” space by filling it with “art objects”, thus “consecrating” it as art space. It is precisely the temporary nature of this material change which makes the process a detournément.

The art project and actions developed as a response to being in the site of Kronstadt in 2004. A variety of factors were instrumental in developing the works. These include: the international group of artists; the direct encounter of the artists with the topography of the site and its material state; the experience of the artists in living and working in Kronstadt town; the search for and availability of materials that relate to the site – found objects, locally produced things, materials form nature; the history of the site and the region. The project Interconnection is focused on the connections made between artist and landscape, artist and community, artist and fellow artists and artist and the history of the site.

In 1896 radio was first broadcast, by Kronstadt-based scientist Alexander Popov. While there is dispute as to who actually "invented" radio, certainly Popov's contribution to the development of this media was significant. Therefore, Interconnection uses radio as a matrix for the the project, linking sound and visual art with broadcast and Internet communication of the work.            more about RADIO and Popov

As well as the ephemeral materiality of the works themselves, the site-based nature of their realisation is also caught up with the idea of Time. The opening of the site to art is a brief, interventionist moment, not a permanent condition.