Biography
- PUBLIC ART / INSTALLATION ARTIST
- COSTUME / PERFORMANCE CREATOR
- SET DESIGNER
Tatyana Ludanik studied graphic design at Moscow Art and Industry Institute, where she acquired the necessary toolkit of skills to visualize her ideas. Further studies of theatre design at the British High School of Art and Design provided Tatyana with deeper understanding of post dramatic theatre and immersive art, these insights inspire her to create works that stimulate sensory experiences of a viewer. In her artistic career Tatyana also functions as a manager and producer of her own projects, the roles that she had been prepared for while studying Economics as her Bachelor’s degree at Lomonosov Moscow State University.
Tatyana works in different media. The scale and scope of her projects vary from large-size public art objects in city central parks, installations, video art to costume performances and set design. The geography of her recent projects is impressive — Tatyana has created public art in Gorky Park, Skolkovo Industrial Park (Moscow, Russia), installations for permanent collection of Slava Polunin (Le Moulin Jaune, France) and The German Embassy (Goethe-Institut, Russia). She produced a number of interactive installations for ARMA, Mutabor, costume performances for New Holland, Gorky Park, Aviapark, etc. As a set designer, Tatyana collaborated with international festival in Norway (Barents Spektakel 2019, Kirkenes) and Russia (Yuri Bashmet International Art Festival, Sochi 2019, 2020).
Currently, Tatyana resides and creates in Moscow, the city where she was born and bred.
Artist Statement
Working in various media, from public art, installations, video art to costume performances, I always strive to create a deeply immersive environment for my viewers. As in post-dramatic theatre, where there is no barrier between the action and the audience, hence no place for passive observation, I invite my audience to take on active roles and become participants. They let Art inside through their sensory experiences. And this is just the point of entry, Art continues in my viewers as they keep it in their feelings, emotions, perceptions and they take it with them beyond the walls of a theatre or the performance location. This is what motivates me and feeds my curiosity – art as an everyday experience and experiment.
That’s why I enjoy working with city parks, open public spaces, urban landscapes, where I can transform the familiar daily routine. I am deeply convinced that space is an organic extension of us, humans, and as we have an impact on the space around us, so we in our turn can be transformed by space, through immediate reactions and interactions. I believe, that the inner child inside every one of us is still eager for new sensations, fresh emotions and bold adventures. We can travel back to our childhood bliss differently – some people immerse in virtual reality, some exercise spiritual practices, others try to expand their minds with various agents. As for me, Art is a powerful psychedelic medium that can transform our reality and save the inner child from the boredom and fatigue of the everyday life.
New technologies enable us to immerse deeper in VR, however, I prefer to extend not virtual, but the real world. Therefore, in my works I use organic and authentic materials, everyday objects and images (soil, wood, metals, liquids, clothes, etc.). Building on their deep mythological and symbolic meaning, I place them in a totally different context, exposing them to new perspective and perception. I invest a lot of time in experiments with materials, studying their properties and capabilities, mixing techniques in order to find the right technology for the right outcome. Every time I seek to create art, which integrity and truth are those of a living organism. Only such reality can win your trust and acceptance, only such art can immerse you and turn an outside observer into its active participant.
Collaborations include:
2022 ‘Context. Diana Vishneva’ Festival of Contemporary Dance
2022 Museum of Moscow, Moscow
2022—2019 Arma, Mutabor, Moscow
2022—2020 The German Embassy, Moscow
2020, 2019 Winter International Arts Festival, Sochi
2022—2018 Aviapark, Moscow
2020—2016 Gorky Park, Moscow
2019 Barents Spektakel, Kirkiness, Norway
2019, 2018 New Holland,St. Petersburg
2016, 2015 Slava Polunin, Le Moulin Jaune, France
2016 Skolkovo Industrial Park, Moscow
2015 Outline, Moscow
Major Public Projects:
2022
Stage and costumes for ‘Appearance’. ‘Context. Diana Vishneva’ Festival of Contemporary Dance
Duration: 50 min.
23 — 25 November 2022
2022
A 6-hour media performance and stage for ARMAXXII. Mutabor, Moscow
Size: 6 x 6 metres
19 February 2022
2020
A dynamic light installation ‘Pyramid’. Gorky Park, Moscow
Size: 16 metres high (21 metres diagonal)
27 November 2020 — March 2021
2020
Installation ‘The Berlin Wall Crack’ for the 30th anniversary of the reunification of Germany (now in a permanent collection in the Goethe German Cultural Center, Moscow)
Size: 2.8 x 3.6 metre
10 Oktober
2020
A light-dynamic audio installation ‘Dance Floor’s Heart’. Mutabor, Moscow
Size: 1.3 metre
8 February
2019
Video art installation ‘Cell’. Mutabor, Moscow
Size: 2.5 x 2.5 metre
2 November, 2019
2018
Musical installation-performance ‘The Moon’. Gorky Park, Moscow
Size: 6 metre Moon on 127 x 54 metre pond with stars
31 August — 2 September, 2018
2017
A light-dynamic audio installation ‘StereoHeart’ (Matrix). Gorky Park, Moscow
Size: 10 x 10 metre, external rhombus located within a 60 x 60 metre fountain basin
17 November 2017 — 10 March 2018
2016
A kinetic sculpture ‘Izo Rhythm’. Skolkovo, Moscow (in a permanent collection)
Size: 2.5 metre high
December, 2016
2016
Installation ’Frozen Fountain’. Gorky Park, Moscow
Size: 25 x 9 metre
17 November 2016 — 10 March 2017
2015
Installation ‘Stairways to the Sky’. Moulin Jaune of Slava Polunin, France (in a permanent collection)
Size: composition of 6 stair chairs 3.8 metre to 5 metre
April, 2015
2015
Interactive installation ‘Have A Nice Trip’. Outline, Moscow
Size: Composition of 5 baths
4—5 July, 2015
2015
Installation ‘Arche’ (The Rite of Spring by Stravinsky). Boyarski palaty, Moscow
Size: Composition of 8 textile shirts 3-metre high
9—12 May , 2015
Costumes / Performances:
2021
‘Arche’ (version 2021). Performance in a collaboration with choreographer Evgeniya Chetvertkova. Mutabor, Moscow
27 March
2021
‘Shiny Ladies’. Performance for International Women’s Day. Aviapark, Moscow
8 March
2020
‘Sweet Couple’. Valentine’s Day performance. Aviapark, Moscow
14 February
2019
‘Ms. BlueHand’. Performance for the Opening Day of Bauhaus Glamping. Aviapark, Moscow
5 July
2019
‘The Cloud Women’. Performance for International Women’s Day. Aviapark, Moscow
8 March
2018
‘Puzany’. Performance for the Maslenitsa Festival. Gorky Park, Moscow
16—17 February
2017
‘Stereo Types’. Performance for the Opening Day of the Gorky Park ice rink. Gorky Park, Moscow
17 November
2017
‘Monster Hugs’. Performance for the Maslenitsa Festival. Gorky Park, Moscow
25—26 February
