Performance Sowers

  “Sowers” is the first part of the performance-diptych devoted to the topic of physical and mental work.   The world as we know it and we are today is the result of our actions in the past. Both personal development and global world processes imply a continuous energy exchange and require its participants the greater…

Performative sculpture Nutrient medium

For centuries, the representation of a woman or a (nursing) mother served as an allegory for the origin of all living creatures, their material cause. Modern society is primarily focused on finding new energy sources, and the idea of “female” as an energy source is still deeply ingrained in the new information environment. Female attribution…

Performance Calm down!

In this performance, Weld Queen acts as an artist in general. She is the original product; after her, there is a long chain of those through whom her work passes before reaching the viewer or buyer. On all sides, they try to force the artist into some framework — to comb it, to standardize it,…

Limited Monarchy performance

The artist calls this experience “Museumification of human shells”. For 2.5 hours, Weld Queen performed while remaining still as a museum exhibit next to her costume. The performer examines a “double separation” experience throughout this act. The task is to find “the true oneself” in the reality constructed by the positions — a social role,…

Performance Monarchy

The mentality of the individuals around the artist was uncompromisingly influenced by monarchy. It is a state of mind, when individual opinion is elevated to the rank of an unquestionable law. The monarch’s position is inherently dangerous and doomed to isolation. The more a person is assured of his superiority and uniqueness, the farther he place himself…

Chinese Miracle performance

The performance Chinese Miracle highlights China’s work ethic as one of the important components of the Chinese economic miracle. China currently outperforms foreign nations in various sectors as well as in the world art market; you can judge by its turnover for paintings. One of the reasons of such success is the level of the…

“In natura” performance

The performance “In natura” is an ode to the inexhaustible creative potential of Man. Modeling the demiurgic act, the artist in real time (from nature) created “her ideal man”, personifying the new standards of male beauty and power. Referring to the ancient tradition of compiling the canon, like modern Polykleitos, Weld Queen re-created Doriforos of…

“Yoke” performance

“Yoke” performance is one of the series of the art interventions of the “Exhibit” project. In the “traditional Russian welding” suit, as well as with a yoke, specially designed for the action, Weld Queen specially attends art exhibitions and acts as a work of art. By her performance, the artist represents the collective image of…

“Exhibit” performance

Fashion-performance Weld Queen’s ongoing actionist project, “Exhibit,” entails a number of irregular art interventions in different art institutions. Weld Queen participates in the “Exhibit” initiative, visiting modern art exhibitions while wearing specially tailored welding suits. She inevitably engages the audience and the exhibition’s theme in conversation. Weld Queen literally invades the personal space of the…

Embryo

The embryo is a performative sculpture created by dozens of people under the guidance of Weld Queen during the festival “Sparkle” organized by the community of Russian Burners. The sculpture symbolizes the “birth of life” of the tradition of the popular Burning man festival which is new for Russia. The solemn burning of the wooden…