https://themainline.cargo.site The Mainline Group - Chthonian Portfolio Mon, 04 Aug 2025 17:31:56 +0000 https://themainline.cargo.site en https://themainline.cargo.site/Homepage Sat, 24 Jul 2021 23:33:25 +0000 The Mainline Group - Chthonian Portfolio https://themainline.cargo.site/Homepage Welcome to the Mainline Group’s&nbsp; Chthonian Portfolio The Mainline Group actively opposes any kind of military action, genocide, or invasion into sovereign states, especially the imperialist war the Russian Government has unleashed on Ukraine. We stand in solidarity with the people of Ukraine and those protesting around the world. ︎No to war. Нет войне. Ні війні. https://themainline.cargo.site/Superpolar-Continuity Mon, 04 Aug 2025 17:31:56 +0000 The Mainline Group - Chthonian Portfolio https://themainline.cargo.site/Superpolar-Continuity Superpolar Continuity, 2024video Chthonian profile:Western: ♏︎ [Scorpio]Slavic: SwanChinese:木龙[Wood Dragon]&nbsp; <img width="3840" height="2160" width_o="3840" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c57b8b99d414a9c9ce6c2afc252e2e5968af6874be245eecfdeebc6137959b5f/Superpolar-Continuity-Still-1.jpg" data-mid="236649280" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c57b8b99d414a9c9ce6c2afc252e2e5968af6874be245eecfdeebc6137959b5f/Superpolar-Continuity-Still-1.jpg" /><img width="3008" height="1678" width_o="3008" height_o="1678" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4676117c6c6eb36311112545cfd70585531e3f49a1ad64ea973da547625e720b/Superpolar-Continuity-Still-2.png" data-mid="236649281" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4676117c6c6eb36311112545cfd70585531e3f49a1ad64ea973da547625e720b/Superpolar-Continuity-Still-2.png" /> Superpolar continuity is a story of a very special type of travelling — immigrating. Specifically (physically and mentally) from the East (Shanghai) to the extreme West (Saõ Paulo) as told from a first person perspective.&nbsp; Based on the real life of The Mainline Group member Lena Kilina, the video pictures constant movement of scenery — from colourful celebrations to mourning nature, travelling by train, bike, foot, and sea. Assembled from purely personal footage, the video defies the polished travelling documentary aesthetics, which are never earnest depictions of the process. Instead, the video aims to redefine the genre of immigration stories as a video-postcard, showing discovering new land is never a clean process. From grief to celebration, from loss to acquisition, Superpolar Continuity depicts the dualities of life on wheels. The soundtrack for this video 西方-东方 was composed by Meta Golova band and debuted live on NTS Radio and Gallery Emalin (London) on July 9th 2024. <img width="2990" height="1686" width_o="2990" height_o="1686" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/36ba317fd5b54f442d7c7625ead047de051ab6bce7bd420eb420dda52d93f748/Superpolar-Continuity-Still-3.png" data-mid="236649282" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/36ba317fd5b54f442d7c7625ead047de051ab6bce7bd420eb420dda52d93f748/Superpolar-Continuity-Still-3.png" /> https://themainline.cargo.site/Leave-2023 Mon, 04 Aug 2025 17:19:01 +0000 The Mainline Group - Chthonian Portfolio https://themainline.cargo.site/Leave-2023 Leave!, 2023video Chthonian profile:Western: ♑︎ [Capricorn]Slavic: CrowChinese:癸卯年[Water Rabbit]&nbsp; <img width="2560" height="1600" width_o="2560" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f952543460b11510d13bca5aafe7e369af69a0dce207c7a3e366a9edefa34a47/2.png" data-mid="236649147" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f952543460b11510d13bca5aafe7e369af69a0dce207c7a3e366a9edefa34a47/2.png" /><img width="2560" height="1600" width_o="2560" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fabe6adcb51166dbb29494a4dbfb120d9e5a03de32dcfcf4904545fb7b640f9f/3.png" data-mid="236649148" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fabe6adcb51166dbb29494a4dbfb120d9e5a03de32dcfcf4904545fb7b640f9f/3.png" /> Leave! is a short film on the loss of place, nationality, masters, and purpose. Written and directed during the time of war, Leave! depicts a character, battling their loneliness and demons, unaware that they are a demon of their own. The text is written in Russian — the language of dissidents and refugees, and simultaneously — perpetrators and predators. The landscape is Parque Minhocão and its dwellings — a place of a well known urban revolution in Saõ Paulo, where the citizens got tired of their personal space being invaded by traffic and reclaimed a whole piece of highway. It has turned into a pedestrian area, unprecedented for Saõ Paulo. The lyrics of Leave! invoke discourse of power figures, deities, and commands being doubted and debated. Challenging the culture of submission to circumstance, the audio welcomes the listener to grieve a free world unsuccumbed to the will of others. <img width="2560" height="1600" width_o="2560" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6f3453ec2a2954e7a0f297b631257897f7b69d6818d12cf7ef2cb0924ecac403/4.png" data-mid="236649149" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6f3453ec2a2954e7a0f297b631257897f7b69d6818d12cf7ef2cb0924ecac403/4.png" /> https://themainline.cargo.site/Neurotic-City Wed, 12 Apr 2023 19:16:48 +0000 The Mainline Group - Chthonian Portfolio https://themainline.cargo.site/Neurotic-City NEUROTIC CITY, 2022audio-visual experiment Chthonian profile:Western: ♈︎ [Virgo]Slavic: SvarogChinese:虎水[Water Tiger]&nbsp; <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bdf4803d972855d4d5a6a07e8225f120b9473d86b7c2cb77228a249a38778494/Sequence-01.00_00_29_29.Still001.jpg" data-mid="175132401" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bdf4803d972855d4d5a6a07e8225f120b9473d86b7c2cb77228a249a38778494/Sequence-01.00_00_29_29.Still001.jpg" /> The worlds of anthropology, art and, architecture are well aware of the revolutionary Situationist exercises of Guy Debord (1958), which invited the citizens to explore the terrain psycho-geographically and resist the mental economy of pre-decided urban movement as much as possible. The idea of “dérive” — letting go of the reasons for walking and being drawn by the affordances of urban terrain — is a centrepiece of the philosophy. However, dérive was designed for the first-world people, unbothered by threats of policing, crime and suspicion, living in the clean and safe first-world cities. What would happen if we attempt to practice dérive in the cities no less big than Paris of Berlin, yet much less safe, white, and privileged? In this video art we invite you to a Situationist follow-along, a journey through urban and political fears, exercises and stories of 2 citizens of Sao Paulo and Moscow. These 2 drifts in one of the world’s most policed city and in one of the world’s most criminal city will merge into a social and urban mirror, reflecting the true progress of our societies. Shot and performed by the Mainline Group (Lena Kilina and Sofya Chibisguleva), sound design by Yuri Bruscky. https://themainline.cargo.site/Versatile-Material Sat, 24 Jul 2021 23:33:22 +0000 The Mainline Group - Chthonian Portfolio https://themainline.cargo.site/Versatile-Material VERSATILE&nbsp;MATERIAL, 2020 Three-channel audio &amp; installation[concrete, plastic plant bases, assorted seeds and pulses]. Chthonian profile:Western: ♍︎ [Virgo]Slavic: MayaChinese: 庚子[Metal Rat]&nbsp; Versatile Material is a sound-sculptural installation studying the phenomenon of sonic erosion by the Mainline Group and AUTOTURK [Adam Synikin &amp; Lena Kilina]. Versatile Material was on show at Frequencies exhibition at Khodynka Gallery (Moscow) from 1 Sep to 29 Oct 2020. kilbilina · Versatile substance/Универсальный материал. Radio theater <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7f4ee20ac61deb6a6f98468d98ff953891d4361932e0adac028ae61ae5253463/frequencies-5.jpg" data-mid="114588332" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7f4ee20ac61deb6a6f98468d98ff953891d4361932e0adac028ae61ae5253463/frequencies-5.jpg" /> <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4c3347f38c2b5f1771697f2ed98dac838692ae70193d12c988ba87b7f6df3113/frequencies-2.jpg" data-mid="114588337" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4c3347f38c2b5f1771697f2ed98dac838692ae70193d12c988ba87b7f6df3113/frequencies-2.jpg" /> <img width="5058" height="3372" width_o="5058" height_o="3372" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6607d6cfbc8510545a0517613602fbf250208f8a96ffe05576edb51fb643d4d5/frequencies-8.jpg" data-mid="114588478" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6607d6cfbc8510545a0517613602fbf250208f8a96ffe05576edb51fb643d4d5/frequencies-8.jpg" /> <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/66ec8cef43738be8f079996b70c3fda762204d47edbcd41e219447495b9d96a0/frequencies-6.jpg" data-mid="114588454" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/66ec8cef43738be8f079996b70c3fda762204d47edbcd41e219447495b9d96a0/frequencies-6.jpg" /> https://themainline.cargo.site/Chthonian-Rehab Sat, 24 Jul 2021 23:33:23 +0000 The Mainline Group - Chthonian Portfolio https://themainline.cargo.site/Chthonian-Rehab CHTHONIANREHAB, 2020 single-channel video, 7m 51s Chthonian profile:Western: ♊︎&nbsp;[Gemini]Slavic: VelesChinese: 庚子[Metal Rat] The Mainline Group invites you to stick your shovels into the space between the waves of the pandemic and embark on a supermythical trip to analyse the post-COVID condition of distance. Chthonian Rehab is an anthology of grief, tension and internationalism during the pandemic, following the digital dialogue of the Mainline Group members – Lena and Sofya. "Today I had a dream I was at Lena's place in Sao Paulo.&nbsp;It had ceilings like courtyards of St Pete's and the rooms reminded me of the warehouses in Seven Sisters.&nbsp;The living room was colour green... with no dimensions.In the middle of it was an altar-like sculpture made of wax and coated in gold. It was humid and hot in Brazil, so the centrepiece lady streamed down on the floor, mixing with wax and revealing the grief which was nothing but vicid." <img width="1275" height="1275" width_o="1275" height_o="1275" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d474da7f6c6e98cf4ced82f12b2866527e2bfa24cb307e4a5988c47fc7159ef0/sp-moscow-lady-grief.jpg" data-mid="114590067" border="0" data-scale="39" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d474da7f6c6e98cf4ced82f12b2866527e2bfa24cb307e4a5988c47fc7159ef0/sp-moscow-lady-grief.jpg" /> <img width="5031" height="3354" width_o="5031" height_o="3354" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/82e175484fe9a233e310843b90ae76eb00c8c775d5ff611f5e01ddd75ee395c9/258.JPG" data-mid="114590068" border="0" alt="photography by Yana Sidikova" data-caption="photography by Yana Sidikova" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/82e175484fe9a233e310843b90ae76eb00c8c775d5ff611f5e01ddd75ee395c9/258.JPG" /> https://themainline.cargo.site/You-Should-Dig-Right-Here Sat, 24 Jul 2021 23:33:23 +0000 The Mainline Group - Chthonian Portfolio https://themainline.cargo.site/You-Should-Dig-Right-Here YOU SHOULD DIG RIGHT HERE, 2020 Zoom performance @&nbsp;Khodynka Gallery Chthonian profile:Western: ♋︎ [Cancer]Slavic: VelesChinese: 庚子[Metal&nbsp;Rat]&nbsp; <img width="1346" height="768" width_o="1346" height_o="768" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/db54f41271d0868cb9713257d1d5c190a35784f7b5290afa0c546c056548a393/The-Mainline-Group-Portfolio-2020_Page_16_Image_0001.jpg" data-mid="120053229" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/db54f41271d0868cb9713257d1d5c190a35784f7b5290afa0c546c056548a393/The-Mainline-Group-Portfolio-2020_Page_16_Image_0001.jpg" /> What if you start digging right here and now? Could you end up puncturing the surface of the Turkish seaside beach with your shovel, where the Kremlin-like hotel sunburns its brightness away? Perhaps you’ll float up the Iguazu falls? Or would you prefer to tear through the plastic snow of the Australian Zoo penguin pool and join in the game of nature imitation? Aren’t you surprised that these options do not appear so absurd to you? What about 5 months ago? “Absolute mythology is absolute existence, a kind of existence, which has achieved the mythical state. To unwrap this mythology is to&nbsp;expose each step of the journey from the absolute state of being and the absolute mythology, its development.” – Alexey Losev, Myth Dialectics, published in 1930.&nbsp;The Mainline Group invites you to stick your shovels into the space between the waves of the pandemic and embark on a super-mythical trip to analyse the post-COVID condition of distance. <img width="2556" height="1596" width_o="2556" height_o="1596" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/52e077c105988c2bdebd791d19949668a0d846d5f71370ed1d85474728574420/Screenshot-2021-09-28-at-03.23.54.png" data-mid="120052858" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/52e077c105988c2bdebd791d19949668a0d846d5f71370ed1d85474728574420/Screenshot-2021-09-28-at-03.23.54.png" /> <img width="2556" height="1595" width_o="2556" height_o="1595" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/75bef37206d3c8b8be1ac053496f809952c25015c15a67aed9ac6e8b8c20e058/Screenshot-2021-09-28-at-03.24.24.png" data-mid="120052859" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/75bef37206d3c8b8be1ac053496f809952c25015c15a67aed9ac6e8b8c20e058/Screenshot-2021-09-28-at-03.24.24.png" /> https://themainline.cargo.site/About Sat, 24 Jul 2021 23:33:24 +0000 The Mainline Group - Chthonian Portfolio https://themainline.cargo.site/About ABOUT The Mainline group is an artery, which pumps histories of people, machines, spaces and places between its two lungs: Lena Kilina (PhD, UNICAMP) and Sofya Chibisguleva (MA, Royal College of Art). We are a new kind of artist group, which doesn’t have to coexist in order to cocreate. We are ancient storytellers armed for a discussion with the technosphere. We are the East and the West.&nbsp;We are the global migrants, the children of lost ideologies, born in countries which no longer exist. We are the architecture, the narration, the analysis, the therapist, the chair in the choir of a new Enlightenment of post-everything. Both separately and together we create stories about the fusion between people and their cultural past and collective future via contemporary forms of narration: video, sound, audiobooks and printed media. Born in Shanghai at around 4 am in November of 2017 we live primarily in the English, Brazilian, Chinese, and European cultural realms. ︎Press Book, Appearances&amp;Plans <img width="3174" height="3418" width_o="3174" height_o="3418" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ee82b64220e30216a9d2a738c737dfa64a32b9be441148a3fb6b3600be71d142/themainline-collage-1.jpg" data-mid="120047308" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ee82b64220e30216a9d2a738c737dfa64a32b9be441148a3fb6b3600be71d142/themainline-collage-1.jpg" /> https://themainline.cargo.site/Recent-Appearances Mon, 27 Sep 2021 22:52:45 +0000 The Mainline Group - Chthonian Portfolio https://themainline.cargo.site/Recent-Appearances RECENT APPEARANCES &amp; PLANS Upcoming ︎ Some things are brewing, stay tuned! 2024 ︎ Screening: CINEÉFI, Fêmea Fabrica, Saõ Paulo, Brazil ︎Virtual Exhibition, Unrestricted Pavilion, Wrong Biennale 2024 2023(we took a break in 2023 - you should take one too sometime!) 2022︎Exhibition: Verbo 16,&nbsp;Galeria Vermelho, Brazil 2021 ︎Screening: Ação Poéticas do Tempo e Espaço: Outramento (BR/EN) ︎Broadcast: Rasų Radijas - Įvairialypė medžiaga (Versatile Material) (LT) ︎Broadcast: Pixelache 2021 Festival Helsinki w Autoturk (EN) ︎Screening: CINE RUA SE7E experimental video festival (BR) ︎Interview: art.peretivo with a.topos Venice (EN) ︎Feature: East East / CommunityHistories are Waged in Rooms and Destinies are Vectorised in Dreams (EN/RU) 2020 ︎Exhibition: ЧастотыGround Khodynka, Mosow ︎Interview: syg.ma Вдохновение как нервный тик, онлайн-галереи и бразильский брутализм — интервью с The Mainline Group (RU) ︎Exhibition: Освоение пространствGround Khodynka, Mosow