# LOCAL_AREA_NETWORK[s] / Exhibitions by Viktor Timofeev

Our very talented friend, Viktor Timofeev (see previous posts) will be opening his two exhibitions called LOCAL_AREA_NETWORK[s] in London and in Cologne on January 14th and January 15th. During those openings, he will join Bryce Hackford for creating a improvised sound in relation with Viktor's paintings and drawings.
Here is the text related to this improvised creation:

Bryce and Viktor met in 2004 at Hunter College, New York, where they began collaborating on music projects. They have made pop songs and sound pieces in repetitive and environmental styles and create unique bodies of work in correspondence between Brooklyn and Berlin.
Bryce has a band in Brooklyn called Behavior (occasionally featuring Viktor), experimenting with recording mediums and effects in special new style some have called 'hypnagogic pop'.
To celebrate the performance in London by these two artists we have produced a 12" record. It features a piece called 9/32 produced by studio then live versions being layered arbitrarily on top of one another with a continuous sample and complete interruption by sample (during which both play). The flip is a live sample of Viktor's collaboration with Behavior this past summer. Each of the 15 12'' covers is a unique drawing by Viktor produced specially for this exhibition.
Bryce's recordings and performances match sensuality and intuition with a conceptual approach that traces the influence of Brian Eno and many German musicians, dub producers, home recording and dance music pioneers.
This 12" will be released at the same time as two new cassettes Bryce has produced for Robert Goff’s gallery in New York and The Curiosity Shoppe in San Francisco this January.

# MANIFESTO /// Viktor Timofeev

Victor Timofeev

My vision of a near future metropolis is tied to my experience of growing up skateboarding the streets of New York. To a skateboarder, urban objects lose their immediate practical functions and are forced to behave as objects of pleasure, transforming a simple street into a funzone. In this way, a skateboarder's vision of the metropolis sees the dreams of the 60's era collectives such as Archigram and the Situationists come true. This logic led me to explore forms found from the street on paper, joining the lineage of fantastical, hypothetical and quasi-utopian architectural situations. With time, street objects were expanded to include all aspects of design that a normal inhabitant of a metropolis is confronted with on a daily basis, recycled and juggled in a non-sensical, humorous way.

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# Victor Timofeev

There are some meeting with emotion you don't expect, wandering in the internet street looking for some of El Lissitzky's work, I happened to meet Victor Timofeev's which is as productive as stunning. References are pretty obvious but the way Timofeev is expressing his vision of architecture has a undeniable strong graphic power.
His website introduces his work since 2001 and his very severe skateboard accident which pushed him into the need of drawing.