Leo Trotsenko
is a video and performance artist. He is the founder of the indie publishing house Periscope_ua, as well as a participant in the self-organized artistic initiative DE NE DE.
Leo is an artist from Dnipro, Ukraine. He prefers to work with sound, performance, and video. In his work he focuses on the theory and history of music and art, subcultures and micro-communities and Soviet heritage urban space. Before the full-scale war, he often changed cities for life and work.
Works
“LOSSLESS OR WIN-WIN”
Film
In this film, the invited Romanian amateur choir, Dragos Vode, performs the “Ode to Joy” from the finale of Beethoven’s 9th symphony using the words from the anthem of the European Union. Today, at the official level in the EU, this song is performed without a choir, only music. The Folk Choir performs ‘Ode to Joy’ in Romanian translation at two locations: the first is opposite the theatre, the place of its original location; then the choir moves to the courtyard of the German House and repeats Oda Bucuriei again at the place where the unnamed pedestal stands.
“The Black Film”
This film is about the disappearance and reduction of reality. It is a kind of noir parody borrowing from the stereotypes commonly found in detective films. The main character is a detective who is the only man in the city who notices the strange disappearance of objects. The detective goes to work, trying to notice and register all of these strange things.
“The dream of the humanism”
The forms embroidered onto the fabric are abstract renderings of what has fallen to the ground during wartime and must eventually decompose: corpses from battlefields, rubbish, and plastic products. Clouds— Cumulus, Cirrocumulus, and Altostratus crystals— condense on the surface of things, as if it were possible to contrast heaven and earth. The clouds are embroidered, thus making them look menacing.
