Black & Sea
Tereshko Alena
The idea of creating a performance where I eat myself came to me when I was feeling helpless to change the circumstances (the war between Ukraine and Russia, which began in 2014). I couldn’t do it in real life, so I decided to draw how it would look. The video expresses my sorrow in a poetic form.
Production Year
2015
Duration
00:04:49
Tyyppi
Asiasana
animation, blue, body, body awareness, confession of guilt, feminism, gaze, performance (art forms), poetic imagery, sea areas, seaweeds, self-destruction, self-injurious behavior
Original Title
Black & Sea
English Title
Black & Sea
Production Countries
Russia
Dialogue
No
Sound
Yes
Cast
Alena Tereshko (Author), Alena Tereshko (Cinematographer), Alena Tereshko (Director), Alena Tereshko (Editor), Alena Tereshko (Producer), Alena Tereshko (Script), Alena Tereshko (Actor)
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Alena Tereshko (b. 1986, Siberia) works with autobiography and humour, blending personal narratives with social critique. Grounded in feminist studies, her performance-based work spans diverse forms of expression, including painting, video and installations. Alena is particularly interested in how contemporary phenomena and tradition (folklore or traditional art) are intertwined in the arts.