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We curate exhibitions and events based on research and experiments with cutting-edge immersive installations and XR experiences, allowing audiences to discover ideas in new realities.
SCHOOL Art Center
PASSENgers of the ship named daughter of mountains
SCHOOL is a new art center launching in the historic Snyderville Schoolhouse building (c. 1860) in Columbia County, New York in May 2026. The center, co-curated by Alex Garikovich and Anna Evtiugina, reimagines the former rural school as a contemporary platform dedicated to artistic practices exploring the theme of education.
SCHOOL investigates how education shapes artists, cultural practitioners, audiences, and society at large. The center views education not only as a system of knowledge transmission but also as a structure that influences imagination, cultural production, social dynamics, and conceptions of the future.
Join us for the inagural exhibiiton during
Upstate Art Weekend, June 25 – 29, 2026
Address: 2392 Co Rte 8, Elizaville, NY 12523
Thursday, June 25 | 12 PM - 5 PM
Friday, June 26 | 12 PM - 5 PM
Saturday, June 27 | 12 PM - 5 PM
Sunday, June 28 | 12 PM - 5 PM
Monday, June 29 | 12 PM - 5 PM
SCHOOL investigates how education shapes artists, cultural practitioners, audiences, and society at large. The center views education not only as a system of knowledge transmission but also as a structure that influences imagination, cultural production, social dynamics, and conceptions of the future.
Join us for the inagural exhibiiton during
Upstate Art Weekend, June 25 – 29, 2026
Address: 2392 Co Rte 8, Elizaville, NY 12523
Thursday, June 25 | 12 PM - 5 PM
Friday, June 26 | 12 PM - 5 PM
Saturday, June 27 | 12 PM - 5 PM
Sunday, June 28 | 12 PM - 5 PM
Monday, June 29 | 12 PM - 5 PM
The performance is a collective mixed reality theater experience in the form of an opera, where audience members become passengers – active characters and decision-makers in the story. The action takes place inside a magic vehicle, driven in real time by a pilot navigating through virtual worlds.
Each world challenges the audience’s perception of their personal and shared humanity. This experience aims to create a safe space where the audience has agency and can radically experiment with controversial subjects, which is hardly possible in ordinary life.
The core subject that we explore in this work is a shift from a biological human being to a new human of the technological era, its psyche, ethics, creativity, and love. Does this human passively sit inside each of us, or are we capable of cultivating it proactively?
The physical reality inside the ship, where the audience is present, is merged with the outer virtual world's reality that the audience observes from the inside. Live performers and virtual characters seamlessly transcend between the two realities, while the real-time storytelling algorithm dynamically navigates non-linear dramaturgy based on the audience-performers' interactions.
Key creative collaborators:
Nikita Shokhov — Director
Anna Evtiugina — Producer (IPURELAND.art)
Kate Eberstadt — The Pilot, Lead Actress, author of the song "Heaven on Earth"
Sepehr Pirasteh — Composer, Interactive Sound Artist, Max/MSP Sound Programmer
Oorja Garg — Writer
Ali Bianchi — Movement Director
Masha Kechaeva — Original Scenic Concept
Masha Khyshova — Set Designer, Production Manager
FIrst Workshop production
Friday, October 3, 2025
4:00 pm 5:00 pm 6:00 pm 7:00 pm
Saturday, October 4, , 2025
1:00 pm 7:30 pm 8:30 pm
Sunday, October 5, 2025
1:00 pm 3:00 pm 4:00 pm
Each world challenges the audience’s perception of their personal and shared humanity. This experience aims to create a safe space where the audience has agency and can radically experiment with controversial subjects, which is hardly possible in ordinary life.
The core subject that we explore in this work is a shift from a biological human being to a new human of the technological era, its psyche, ethics, creativity, and love. Does this human passively sit inside each of us, or are we capable of cultivating it proactively?
The physical reality inside the ship, where the audience is present, is merged with the outer virtual world's reality that the audience observes from the inside. Live performers and virtual characters seamlessly transcend between the two realities, while the real-time storytelling algorithm dynamically navigates non-linear dramaturgy based on the audience-performers' interactions.
Key creative collaborators:
Nikita Shokhov — Director
Anna Evtiugina — Producer (IPURELAND.art)
Kate Eberstadt — The Pilot, Lead Actress, author of the song "Heaven on Earth"
Sepehr Pirasteh — Composer, Interactive Sound Artist, Max/MSP Sound Programmer
Oorja Garg — Writer
Ali Bianchi — Movement Director
Masha Kechaeva — Original Scenic Concept
Masha Khyshova — Set Designer, Production Manager
FIrst Workshop production
Friday, October 3, 2025
4:00 pm 5:00 pm 6:00 pm 7:00 pm
Saturday, October 4, , 2025
1:00 pm 7:30 pm 8:30 pm
Sunday, October 5, 2025
1:00 pm 3:00 pm 4:00 pm
mixed reality theater experience
Last March
Scan | Klaxon
Rina Banerjee: Make
Me a Summary of the World
Me a Summary of the World
The Art of Becoming Black
Inter-generational dialog and immersive video installation about post-WWII history.
How does social collective memory about World War II project our present and future?
Curated by Antonio Geusa and Anna Evtiugina.
Author of the project, artist, and documentary filmmaker Naum Medovoy dedicated himself to revising the conventional representation of the Second World War in art. A 10-channel video installation was created in collaboration with video artist Nikita Shokhov and sound artist Oleg Makarov.
- Cube.Moscow, May 29 – July 4, 2021
- Boris Yeltsin Presidential Center (Yekaterinburg), July 2021
How does social collective memory about World War II project our present and future?
Curated by Antonio Geusa and Anna Evtiugina.
Author of the project, artist, and documentary filmmaker Naum Medovoy dedicated himself to revising the conventional representation of the Second World War in art. A 10-channel video installation was created in collaboration with video artist Nikita Shokhov and sound artist Oleg Makarov.
- Cube.Moscow, May 29 – July 4, 2021
- Boris Yeltsin Presidential Center (Yekaterinburg), July 2021
Gallery 11.12 presented two projects Scan and Klaxon by Nikita Shokhov and Anna Evtiugina. The Scan series reflects the difference between Russian and American social culture through the phenomenon of the mass carnival procession.
The VR installation of the 360-film Klaxon offers
a mind journey through time and space, creating
a poetic allegory of a divided consciousness in the context of the social context in the United States.
11.12 gallery, March 3 — April 14, 2020
The VR installation of the 360-film Klaxon offers
a mind journey through time and space, creating
a poetic allegory of a divided consciousness in the context of the social context in the United States.
11.12 gallery, March 3 — April 14, 2020
Rina Banerjee: Make Me a Summary of the World is the first mid-career retrospective of the artist's work. Co-organized by the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, and San José Museum of Art, the exhibition presents almost twenty years of Banerjee's large-scale installations, sculptures, and paintings—including a re-creation of her work from the 2000 Whitney Biennial; sculptures featured
in the 2017 Venice Biennale; and recent work for the Prospect 4 New Orleans biennial. Rina Banerjee:
Make Me a Summary of the World focuses on four interdependent themes in Banerjee's work that coincide with important issues of our time: immigration and identity; the lasting effects of colonialism and its relationship to globalization; feminism; and climate change.
San Jose Museum of Art, May 16 – October 6, 2019
in the 2017 Venice Biennale; and recent work for the Prospect 4 New Orleans biennial. Rina Banerjee:
Make Me a Summary of the World focuses on four interdependent themes in Banerjee's work that coincide with important issues of our time: immigration and identity; the lasting effects of colonialism and its relationship to globalization; feminism; and climate change.
San Jose Museum of Art, May 16 – October 6, 2019
Conversations with scholars and artists who work on the intersection of African American history, race, and popular culture. Two-day symposium with artists and scholars at Indiana University was curated by Anna Evtiugina and Kaila Austin.
Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center (Bloomington), November 2017
Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center (Bloomington), November 2017
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