Misha Ilin
Misha Ilin is an interdisciplinary artist. Misha’s work explores the practice of instructions and situations as a medium to reveal the intimate connection between our layered identities and the contractual social interactions that exist around us. By experimenting with different forms of unities emerging between participants of his performative installations, Misha seeks to provoke both collaborative and rival relationships with their audience to problematize our domestic rituals, social practices, and behaviors and comment on issues of labor, social roles, immigration, race, and inequality.
Misha received a Master’s in Mathematics and Informatics from the National University of Science and Technology in Moscow, Russia. In 2016 he moved to the United States to receive his MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art.
Misha Ilin’s ‘Wish the Past Never Repeats Itself’ project for the Baltimore Art LED Board comprises of nine instructions repeatedly appearing on a billboard. Those instructions follow a structure of a conversational ‘Would you rather that – or –‘ game, which requests the viewer to answer a series of simple questions, therefore inviting the project’s occasional audiences to inquire into the socio-cultural environment they live in.
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Implementation of ‘Wish the Past Never Repeats Itself’ Project
