I am presenting a video recording of the Carve-up performance. Thing is, in Russian the word 'Carve-up' has two meanings. One is the actual carve-up of a tree. While the other meaning of this word is the carve-up of budgets, money, power and influence. This performance hints at the current corruption epidemic in Russia and its unofficial slogan was "Those who don't carve up the budgets, can carve up these logs with us!" The political performance, 'Carve-up', was done in a carnival spirit, because by carving up regular logs we showed that fighting corruption in our country is like clown's fooling.

CUTruption or Carve/up

STUDENT Art Prom in The Design Center Artplay,
4th Moscow International Biennale for Young Art

Carve-up is a project that I came up with in my fourth year at the Academy for my term thesis. The Academy's management chose it for the exhibition of the best works by the graduates of the

Performace duration 90 min

CUTruption or Carve/up. 2014. Ceramics, metal, wood. D 650 cm

Later we were invited to present a project for the Stroganov Academy at the annual exhibition of Russia's creative schools - StudentArtProm. I decided to expand the installation, add more trees and organize a performance with nine people.

Ceramics Department within the framework of the concurrent program of the Fourth Moscow International Biennale for Young Art.

We implemented it together with my classmate Katya Guseva.

Yasha Mokhnacheva-Yavorskay, show curator,
Katya Guseva, Joseph Backstein, russian art guru, Mila Dolman