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by Mischa Badasyan | Feb 19, 2015 | Photography

Mischa Badasyan was born in Rostov on Don, Russia. He studied Political Science at Rostov ́s South University and have been working in social, human rights, LGBT and environmental protecting organizations since an early age. It has made a huge impact on him and his artwork. In 2008, he moved to Germany and eventually began studying social work in Dresden while staying active in social/AIDS/LGBT organizations. In October 2011, he started just coincidental his career as a performance artist after working as a nude model at the art academy in Dresden. He strongly believes that the art exists only through our life experiences. There is no need to use physical objects to create; you become the artwork yourself. The art should be immaterial like you; feelings of deep love of the World, the Earth and of Humanity. In September 2013, he moved to Berlin which was the next stop in his artistic career where he started doing long duration performance lasted days, months and years.

Я тонкий, белый лоскуток

Дотронься до меня

Я легкий, чистый, озорной

поиграй со мной

Почти прозрачный и забывчивый

Так легко меня запачкать, но

можно быстро стереть всю грязь

Почти невесомый и очень спокойный

Я принимаю ночь к себе в гости,

а утром снова одинок

Раз за разом сдираю с себя кожу

Это уже не больно, я привык

Скоро дотронусь до костей

Тогда уж прилягу и усну.

I am a thin, white patch.

Just touch me and

feel my pain

I am light, pure, naughty.

Play with me

Almost transparent and forgetful,

It is so easy to get me dirty.

But it is also easy to get rid of the mud.

Almost weightless and very calm,

I host a night at my place.

But in the morning I will be alone again.

Step by step I peel my skin.

It doesn’t hurt anymore,

I got used to it.

Soon it will reach my bones,

So I can at last go to bed

Our cities are non-places. Their history can be changed or rewritten. Our identity can be defined over and over so that there is an illusion of real communication. We just pass by and live in the void of people. Places are against spaces and opposite; each space does not have a place of memory. The old and the new, the past and the present coexist and collide every time. Our life in the metropolis is based on time, space and individuality. There is an abundance of events and places. Daily we hear news that reports within a few hours about a new terrorist attack or about the Olympic games; we use the internet to buy, communicate, to work, to relax, to enjoy- people move around a lot and travel from one point to another faster and faster. In the end we have to admit that we feel like inactive witnesses. So much is going on and we feel frustrated and depressed because we have access to everything but we do nothing with it. Many of us have a conviction that on our own we give meaning to life and to the world. But the non-places take our power and our thinking away–in these places you do not have to decide, to talk to anyone or to belong somewhere. Individual solitude turns into global solitude. Non-places create absence of the individual and abolish our identity.

Mischa Badasyan was born in Rostov on Don, Russia. He studied Political Science at Rostov ́s South University and have been working in social, human rights, LGBT and environmental protecting organizations since an early age. It has made a huge impact on him and his artwork. In 2008, he moved to Germany and eventually began studying social work in Dresden while staying active in social/AIDS/LGBT organizations. In October 2011, he started just coincidental his career as a performance artist after working as a nude model at the art academy in Dresden. He strongly believes that the art exists only through our life experiences. There is no need to use physical objects to create; you become the artwork yourself. The art should be immaterial like you; feelings of deep love of the World, the Earth and of Humanity. In September 2013, he moved to Berlin which was the next stop in his artistic career where he started doing long duration performance lasted days, months and years.