At the invitation of Madame l’Ambassadeur, the Russian artist duo Gorod Ustinov are currently travelling through the city of Zurich with Museum.Delivery, possibly with the “Museum of one Dress” in their luggage: the flowered dress from their Russian hometown of Izhevsk is worn by people in different situations, slipped on, wrapped around, crumpled up or thrown into the air. The dress is not only an artefact with a hidden context, but also a medium, a game and a barter. On Instagram, people follow the dress in an 80s cut – a tribute to youth in the Russian province and an homage to the fashionable women and mothers who often made these kinds of dresses themselves.
Gorod Ustinov explore the possibilities of the museum with Museum.Delivery. Museum.Delivery is an art service that accepts commissions: Gorod Ustinov invent museums wherever they are wanted. With the statement “the museum is a situation”, Gorod Ustinov locate the museum as an ideal place that can take place anywhere.
Gorod Ustinov explore the concepts of home and rootedness. The “Museum of Langstrasse” is created during their stay in Zurich. Gorod Ustinov dig in the “Erde der Langstrasse” and bring wondrous things to light. In their studio in the 25hours Hotel, they create delicate, fragile objects from textiles, wood, moss and found materials from Langstrasse. Gorod Ustinov will continue to arrange and expand the artefacts in the display window of the Die Diele art space until the vernissage.
On 25 July, the display window “Erde der Langstrasse” will be inaugurated as a new museum in the presence of Gorod Ustinov and the publication message salon embassy Zine No. 17 will be published.
Gorod Ustinov are artist in residence at the message salon embassy in the 25hours Hotel Langstrasse, 3 to 30 July
message salon thanks: Livio Baumgartner (Die Diele), City of Zurich Culture, 25hours Hotel Langstrasse