2018
Sound installation. Sound speaker, vinyl record, vinyl player.

Exhibition view Tell me, O Muse...
2018.
FFTN Gallery, St. Petersburg.

Exhibition view Tell me, O Muse...
2018.
FFTN Gallery, St. Petersburg.

Exhibition view Tell me, O Muse...
2018.
FFTN Gallery, St. Petersburg.

Object from the project Tell me, O Muse...
2018.
Record cover.
35x35 (13,7x13,7 in)

Video documentition Tell me, O Muse...
2018.
FFTN Gallery, St. Petersburg.

Tell me, O Muse...

There are events creating an image. And there is the life of the image.

Often tragedies create images. And here the image begins its journey.

On its way, the image can forget the event that created it.

The image is strong, but it serves anyone, this is its nature ...

"Elliot Rodger’s rampage, too, was real. On a spring day in 2014, Rodger stabbed his roommates, drove to a University of California–Santa Barbara sorority house, and hammered on the door. When he was denied entry, Rodger shot at people outside, in the end killing mostly men. The rampage ended when he crashed into a parked vehicle; police found him dead in his car with a self-inflicted gunshot wound in his head.

Midway through his massacre, Rodger uploaded a final video to YouTube, titled “Elliot Rodger’s Retribution,” outlining his purpose. He announced his desire to punish women for rejecting him and railed against sexually active, macho, dominant men, whom he called “brutes” and “animals”:

"Well, this is my last video, it all has to come to this. Tomorrow is the day of retribution, the day in which I will have my revenge against humanity, against all of you . . . I’ve been through college for two and a half years, more than that actually, and I’m still a virgin. It has been very torturous . . . I don’t know why you girls aren’t attracted to me, but I will punish you all for it . . . I’m the perfect guy and yet you throw yourselves at these obnoxious men instead of me, the supreme gentleman."

On 4chan/b/, the day the story broke, Rodger was the subject of much fevered attention. One contributor posted a selfie of Rodger from his Facebook profile and wrote, “Elliot Rodger, the supreme gentleman, was part of /b/. Discuss.” “That dude was fairly good looking,” one commenter remarked. “He must’ve just been the beta to end all betas if he never got laid.” Another commenter wrote, “Manifesto had ‘I do not forget, I do not forgive’ and ‘kissless virgin,’ etc., he was a /b/tard.” Rodger’s “I do not forget, I do not forgive” was likely a reference to a sign-off used by Anonymous, which emerged from 4chan/b/."

Angela Nagle "The New Man of 4chan"