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‘What is the most important thing of all?’ said Vybegallo, readily complying. ‘The most important thing is for man to happy. (. . .) Man, comrades, is Homo sapiens, the creature who can achieve and who desires. He can achieve everything that he desires, and he desires everything that he can achieve. N’est-ce pas, comrades? If he, that is man, can achieve everything that he desires and desires everything that he can achieve, then he is happy. This is how we shall define him. What is this that we have here before us, comrades? We have here a model. But this model, comrades, desires, and that is already good. Exquis, excellent, charmant, so to speak. And again, comrades, you can see for yourselves that it can achieve. And that is even better, because. . . because in that case it. . . he, that is, is happy. There is a metaphysical transition from unhappiness to happiness and this comes as no surprise to us, because people are not born happy, they. . . er. . . become happy. Thanks to proper care and attention being paid.

FORSKERE OG VERK VED DETTE INSTITUTTET 

1 Chto Delat, A Border Musical, 2013. HD video, farge, lyd, 48 minutter. Med tillatelse fra Chto Delat Collective. Regissert av Tsaplya Olga Egorova. Produsert av Pikene på Broen. Co-produsert av KORO (Kunst i offentlig rom, Norge), Jesper Alvær, FilmGården og FilmCamp. Med støtte fra BarentsKult, Barents Spektakel, Fritt Ord, UiT/ Border Aesthetics og Bergen Assembly 2013.

2 Keti Chukhrov, Love Machines, 2013. HD video, farge, lyd, 48 minutter. Opprinnelig scenespill av Keti Chukhrov, 2013. Oversatt fra russisk av Thomas Campbell. I samarbeid med Truppa Rupor Theatre, Moskva (kunstnerisk leder: Semyon Philippov). Produsent: Olga Shirokostup. Video og redigering: Victor Alimpiev. Med støtte fra CCI FABRIKA, Moskva, og National Center for Contemporary Art, Moskva. Coprodusert av Bergen Assembly 2013.

3 Francis Hunger, Deep Love Algorithm, 2013. Installasjon, variable dimensjoner, HD video, farge, lyd, 30 minutter. I samarbeid med Torsten Hampel (skuespiller); Sebastian Hühmer (fotografi) Franziska Leiste (skuespiller); Tom Morrison (oversetter); og Cornelia Friederike Müller (lyd). Co-produsert av Bergen Assembly 2013.