Donate

Ivan Svitlychnyi (UA)

Today we see that there are no local epidemics, war, isolated environment, but we have a common home, one planet, and its wellbeing depends on everyone’s efforts. In this context, awareness of the environmental consequences of their actions, maybe must become a fundamental principle in art, an autor`s filter for endorsing artistic ideas. In the project Donate the viewer is an active participant, who provides the life of an art object (and forms it) by to donating an electricity*. Donate consists of a site and a light installation that powered by donating electricity.

*How do you donate electricity?

Donors looks for ways to conserve electricity in their everyday live, and does this—you can use fewer light sources, optimize your washing machine cycle, etc. The donor then enters the information about the donation (the power of the electrical equipment and the time it was not used) on the project site. The collected energy is the only resource that powers the installation.

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Ivan Svitlychnyi is a Ukrainian artist. Main practice of Svitlychnyi is connected with new media, sound and science art. A participant of the 57th Venice Biennale (Ukrainian Pavilion, 2017) and transmediale Vorspiel 2018. Laureate of the Kazimir Malevich Artist Award 2018.