Baida

Fictional video documentation of perfomance, colour, sound

15 min., 31 sec.

2017








 Baida is a video of a performance that was to take place daily during the 57th Venice Biennale (2017) in
the open waters of the Adriatic Sea, where several performers were supposed to appear and disappearon a capsized boat transported from the Caspian Sea of Dagestan to the open sea in front of the Venice
Lagoon. The work evolved from multiple conversations that the artist had with various fishermen living
in the village of Starii Terek in Dagestan and working on the Caspian Sea. A recurrent motif in their sto-
ries is the risk of being lost at sea and never being found. In the event that a boat capsizes, the fishermen
tie themselves to the prow so that their families will be able to find their bodies and mourn. The work
reflects on the precarity of human lives struggling for survival, against overwhelming economic and
natural forces. At the same it is a comment on the expectations and behavior of art biennial visitors.
                    
— Silvia Franceschini

Team

Text

Performers

Voices

Sound recording


Sound design  

Production

Research

Translation




Tim Etchells

Zubair Dzhavatkhanov, Artem Krupin

Andy Field, Madeleine Botet de Lacaze, Deborah Pearson
John Avery

Alexander Khokhlov

Malika Alieva, Jamilya Valieva

Malika Alieva

Elena Glazeykina



Special thanks: 
A., K., K., M., M., M-R., R., S., S., Delfina Foundation, Gimbat Gimbatov, Daria Khan, Manuela Kokanovic, Leonardo Guerra Seràgnolli

Commissioned by the 57th Venice Biennale, production supported by Gazprombank and Art Finance
Courtesy of the artist


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