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Featuring specially commissioned artworks, a podcast series, and a selection of timely essays, Sreda online magazine offers a nuanced view on culture and contemporaneity. Content is available for a limited period of time and updated every other Wednesday. The Russian word ‘sreda’ means both Wednesday and the natural, geographical, and social environment.

Roman Sakin
Forest controlled sculpture, 2008

Wood, acrylic, fishing line. Dimensions vary.
Anton Kozlov Collection


V–A–C Sreda online magazine completes its three-month programme dedicated to the interrelation of art, technology, and landscape. In this issue, we publish a work by the sculptor Roman Sakin from Anton Kozlov’s collection.

The Forest is one of the objects of controlled sculpture (С. S.), which consists of movable parts, a score with a recorded sequence of their positions and a control panel. Through controlled sculpture, Sakin explores the structure of the object and its plastic interaction with space and man: a composition of sticks, boards, and other materials builds up into a kind of poem or becomes a silent musical instrument.

Five principles of controlled sculpture:

1. It has moving parts.

2. These moving parts can assume different fixed positions in space, changing the shape of the whole object.

3. It can have a control panel that moves the moving parts.

4. It may have a score, or a recorded sequence of positions.

5. The sequence of positions may be a separate artwork performed on a controlled sculpture.

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