Leiderman	YURI LEIDERMAN'S art focuses on what is "covered." He does not seek to uncover, or to form a coterie of initiates who possess secret knowledge. People need cover, he proscribes, to keep what is private to themselves.
People need cover to shield them from what is deep and unknowable.	At the exhibition No Man's Land (1995) in Copenhagen, Leiderman presented the installation Tenth Man's Land. Leiderman allowed only every tenth person to visit the installation.
He wanted the work to exist more as a rumor than as an experience. Leiderman's cover (1:24 min. RealAudio clip)	Tenth Man's Land (detail) (click image for enlarged view)
The installation includes sports trophies that double as funerary urns, and raucous music disorients the visitor. Leiderman aims to undermine recollection of the piece. Live workmen in the installation are busy assembling the essentially unfinished project.

Artists Kulchitsky and Checkorsky

MIROSLAV KULCHITSKY and VADIM CHECKORSKY are widely traveled young artists. They've exhibited in Paris, Melbourne, Cologne, and at home in Ukraine.	To the exhibition Academy Of Cold, the collaborators contributed a work consistent with the east-west question of the day.
Empire of Passion (0:35 min. RealVideo clip)	The artists use Oshima's Empire of Passion as a Berlitz language instructional. Their video interweaves the original Japanese sound track, English subtitles, and a locally familiar voice articulating a Russian translation of the words.
Farewell Odessa. Soon London boards the night train to Kiev, capital of a nation reborn in 1993, following the disintegration of the Soviet Union.