Travel Report No.0172931, 2019
sculptural installation by Oleksandr Kutovyi
Mixed media installation, 22 min. 41 sec. video, sound, performance
Authentic documents of a history where facts coexist with myths, legends, and stories are re- elaborated from generation to generation.
In her work, Makhacheva travels through time, visiting the past, present and future on a vertical geophysical axis with documents that captured the depths of the underwater world to the peaks of mountains and beyond, into outer space.
In a play of juxtaposing flatness and relief (photography/silk printing and embossing), this series both celebrates the bravery of embarking on adventures and exploring the mysterious un- known, and the will to take seriously the most absurd of ideas when people decide to fabricate where inventing is not possible. Travel report
is an expedition and a homage to humanity’s millennial longing to conquer time and space, drawing inspiration from a Dagestan’s age old belief that the easiest and fastest way to walk between mountains is on a tightrope. Each print in this series is embossed with the image of patented devices that attempted the impossible, for example, one that used electrically charged particles in an electromagnetic field to operate time.
As often happens in life, Travel report is a re- minder of how science fiction and history often merge in harmony without contradicting each other.
Image 1
Mountain view of the Karl Marx peak and Engels peak in the Pamirs, Tajikistan, 20 February 1946. Au- thor: [name unknown] Sidorenko, Russian State Film and Pho-to Archive, Krasnogorsk (Code 0-172931).
Walk on a tightrope performed by Rabadan Aba- karov’s and Aragi Hadzhikurbanov’s troupe.
Photo from Abakarov family archive.
Sports equipment, author’s certificate of S. E. Mogilev from 26 October 1930 (certificate No. 77980), Com- mittee for Inventions of the USSR, typolithography ‘Red Printer’, Leningrad, 1931.
Image 2
Earth artificial satellite IS3-3, 1958. Scale 1:10. Pavil- ion ‘Cosmos-4’, VDNH, Moscow.
Model of the ‘Vostok-1’ spacecraft, 1961, The Tsi- olkovsky State Museum of Cosmonautics, Kaluga. Ultra-small submarine project 908 ‘Triton-2’, model sample, 1966, Museum of Small Underwater Self- propelled Vehicles, Kronstadt.
‘Almaz’ orbital station. Project of the 1970s. Self-propelled underwater vehicle AS-22, 1983, Mu- seum of Small Underwater Self-propelled Vehicles, Kronstadt.
Underwater vehicle from the ‘Tethys-N’ project,
1989, Museum of Small Underwater Self-propelled Vehicles, Kronstadt.
Diving device SM-370 ‘Sprut-1’, 1977–1981, Mu-
seum of Small Underwater Self-propelled Vehicles, Kronstadt.
Underwater device for the observation of underwa- ter work, I. F. Gilsher’s patent of 11 August 1925 (certificate No. 4013), Committee for Inventions of the USSR, typolithography ‘Red Printer’, Leningrad, 1927.
Image 3
A group of athletes taking part in the climbing of the Khan Tengri peak near the top, Tien-Shan moun- tains, Kyrgyzstan, August 1962. Photo: A. Stankov, TASS pho-to chronicle, Russian State Film and Photo Archive, Krasnogorsk 10 (Code 0-283667). Electromagnetic time relay (1987), S. M. Kirov Leningrad Electric Machine Building Association ‘Electrosila’, B. A. Lyarsky’s copyright certificate of the USSR No. 633090. VNIIPI of the State Committee for Inventions and Discoveries of GCCT of the USSR, 1989.
Print: Piranesi Lab | Arkady Andreev, Nikon Filippov, Alexandra Koroleva, Alexey Veselovsky
Design: Tata Osipova
Production: Kristina Chernyavskaya, Andrey Efits, Daria Pokrass
Research: Kristina Chernyavskaya, Andrey Efits
Commissioned by Shaltai Editions Courtesy of the artist and Shaltai Editions
Photo: Ivan Anisimov
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