MAXIM IMANOU FADEEV
Fragile Nature Of Empathy
This interactive installation confronts empathy’s vulnerability. The word empathy, crafted from fragile mirror glass, is mounted on the wall and stands exposed within a target range. Air rifles (or stones) are placed nearby, inviting viewers to participate in a symbolic attack.
Can empathy survive conflict?
MAXIM IMANOU
FADEEV
The lab became a combination of three things for me: a structure, a shelter, and a place of pleasant uncertainty. It’s impossible to separate the lab experience from the experiences of emigration and war that followed. Everything affects everything.
My presence in the lab broadened the context of what I was experiencing, and deepened my understanding of the culture and country I had arrived in. It all merged with my personal experiences and that of my family, creating new meanings, desires, and ideas. My identity was also affected, transmuting into something new and surprising, even to myself.
Maxim IMANOU Fadeev (born 1987) is transdisciplinary artist, entrepreneur and coach. He holds an MA in media art from FEFU and studied new media at Vinzavod and in the lab of Dmitry Morozov.
Maxim explores post-national identity, technology as culture, character created by time, and underlying industry processes. His main mediums are performance, sound, video, research-based art, installations and speculative design.
His works have been exhibited internationally, including at NCCA, Electromuseum, Kaliningrad Art Museum, and Primorye State Art Gallery.
Maxim is a frequent keynote speaker on creativity, art, and technology.
