Ольга Зубова

Olga Zubova is a sound and visual artist, performer, and an art historian. Works in various mediums, including sound, performance, video, and installations. In her projects, she investigates human self-representation in different realities, and draws on a speculative or parafictional approach, creating alternative scenarios of the world.
Born in Siberia, she now lives and works between Moscow and St.Petersburg, Russia. She holds a BA in Liberal Arts and Sciences with a major in Art History from Smolny College, SPBU and Bard College, NY. In 2019 she studied in New Stage Media Lab, Aleksandrinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg. Currently she is obtaining her MFA in Sound Art&Sound Studies in HSE Art and design School, Moscow, Russia. Olga’s projects were presented in various exhibitions and festivals around Russia, Finland, US, and Austria.
Member of art-collective iBiom. Co-host of a podcast about culture, art and ethics Kunstuck.

Hypodechomai, 20’10” / 2020

This project is an opportunity to talk and reflect on faith, religion and memory both on a more personal level and on a cultural level, to some extent. This is the process of rethinking/redefining and de(re)constructing the Church chants of the «Cherubic song» by dissecting the magnetic tape.
This is a long and multi-level reassembly process. I found recordings of various chants of the «Cherubic song» and removed all the narrative — the verbal component – from them. Then these segments were recorded on tape, which was cut into multiple parts. These pieces in random order and position were glued back together into a single tape. And recorded again. After that, I dissected the recording in digital form.
During the process of working on this project, I invited people to join the performative meditative part of cutting and glueing the tape. Join a conversation, reflection, not necessarily about religion directly, but about experience, choice, and memory.