Schedule:

Sat 23 May 12 pm (part 1)   

Wed 27 May 4 pm (part 2)

Wed 10 June 6 pm (part 3) 

Wed 19 August 5 pm (part 4) 

The work takes shape around the table and chairs on display over the course of four performances.   

“In the USSR in the 1980s, while filling in a form to receive his first passport, my father was asked to provide a Ukrainian-language version of his surname. It had been pre-typed in Russian, and the equivalent was to be added by hand. Instead of adapting the spelling in accordance with the Ukrainian orthographic rules, my father simply transliterated it. Thus, ‘Ovchinnikov’ was recorded where ‘Ovchynnikov’ should have been.  

Timeline splits occur in all kinds of places. Regretfully, I have carried the faulty surname into the present. But at last, Stanislava Ovchynnikova will join me to rectify this mistake in our four-month-long live work, A Performance for Two.”  

Photo: Shoot Hayley

The performance is part of the Generation 2026 exhibition.