'Report on the Construction of a Space Module' at the New Museum in New York features art influenced by the Soviet Cold War Period

并非每天都会有一架航天飞机的复制品出现在纽约市，或者世界上其他任何地方。曼哈顿的新博物馆(New Museum)总是能带来意想不到的结果，它已经改变了自己的五层展厅空间，为最新的展览“太空模块的建造报告”(Report On The Construction Of A Space Module)和东欧当代艺术网络特兰齐特(Tranzit)一起，模拟了一艘宇宙飞船的内部。

该组织由奥地利、匈牙利、罗马尼亚、捷克共和国和斯洛伐克等地的自主但相互关联的创作团体组成。在这种虚构的背景下，该组织选择展出来自该地区的117件艺术品，这些作品来自冷战时期科幻电影中出现的航天飞机。这座极简主义的白色装置的开头有一个房间，里面有一个运输机入口，四周都是显示苏联现代主义幻灯片和其他档案图像、音频和视频片段的视频屏幕(从1957年至今)。

第二个展厅将由一个大屏幕主导，除了播放25部电影、采访和与艺术家的视频评论外，还将成为一个交流平台，在特别的公共节目中，展览的艺术家们将能够与回到家乡的人们交流。

这个任务控制室通向一个较小的视频装置，最后是一个前厅，里面装满了超过75件艺术品，从雕塑和视频作品到印刷和绘画，看起来就像一种文化时间胶囊。对传统的艺术作品展示制度的挑战，确实是该组织传达的核心信息。他们说：“我们希望这次展览能让时间相对性、文化翻译和空间距离等事实不仅由馆藏惯例(即文字和墙壁标签)解释，而且也能让参观者在空间内活动时，作为探索者体验这些事实。”

作为“博物馆作为中心”倡议的一部分，新博物馆的国际合作方案，Tranzit的当代艺术作品的艺术史方法和新的委员会以一种令人耳目一新的方式揭示了这个东欧地区的文化词汇。宇宙飞船的设置不仅使人想起在铁幕的欧洲一侧盛行的未来主义幻想，而且还突出了空间竞赛在该地区的意识形态意义。

Eastern European art network, Tranzit, who selected the 117 works shown, transformed the fifth floor of the museum into a spaceship, complete with a transporter portal, inspired by the many Soviet science fiction films of the 'space race' era

One such film is Jindřich Polák's 'Ikarie XB-1 (Voyage to the End of the Universe)', 1963. Courtesy the National Film Archive, Prague

The spaceship portal is surrounded by video screens showcasing slideshows of Soviet Modernism and other archive imagery, audio and video footage (from 1957 to present day)

In a second chamber, one large screen shows a loop of 25 films, interviews, video commentaries, and will serve as a launch pad for the artists to communicate with people back in their hometowns during special public programming

A still from Anna Artaker's film, '48 Heads from the Merkurov Museum (after Kurt Kren)', 2012

Three films selected by Tranzit's intra-European network - connecting Austria, Hungary, Romania, the Czech Republic and Slovakia - are shown in an empty green room

Finally an antechamber, which has been filled with over 75 artworks, ranging from sculpture and video works to print and drawing, appears like a cultural time capsule of sorts

'Unlearning Instincts', by Eva Koátková, 2013

‘Nuage (Cloud)’, by Babi Badalov, 2009

‘Sculpture of the Twentieth Century’, by Stano Filko, 1968-69. Photography: Jiri Thyn  

 'Mirror on the Wall IV', by Zsuzsi Ujj, 1989/2013. Courtesy of the artist and MissionArt Gallery, Budapest

Tranzit's challenge to the traditional institutional approach towards presenting artworks is really at the core of the group's message. Here they place works like Mondrian's  'Composition with Yellow and Blue' 1963, 1979 and 1996, on a shelf, intermixed with other artists' works 

Denisa Lehocká's 'Untitled', 2013 sits in front of 'Cactus',1975/2013 and 'Flowers', 1971/2013 by Krzysztof Zabreski, and 'Open Forum - Game on an Actress' Face', by KwieKulik, 1971

'Flowers', by Krzysztof Zarebski, 1971. Courtesy Monopol Gallery

Austrian artist Heinz Frank's 'Daybed (unique example)', 1969-70 sits on the floor of the antechamber

'We hope for the exhibition to make the facts of time relativity, cultural translation and spatial distance not only explained by curatorial conventions (i.e. text and wall labels),' says Tranzit, 'but also by visitors as they move inside the space and experience it as explorers'

The spaceship setting not only recalls the futuristic fantasies that were prevalent on the European side of the Iron Curtain, but also highlights the ideological significance of the space race in the region

keywords:Interior design, New York, Museums

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