Valeriia Temkina
Playwright/writer/screenwriter
interdisciplinary artist
City of residence: Saint Petersburg
Artist statement

So how about the first education I am a historian I often look at the artistic and documentary granites. Very interesting for me - occurred in reality, with a man. Often, the only thing that comes out is "unsovable" literature.

I often see documents, presentations, invitations, but also the means of transport. This is a search for prosthetic ghosts in the vicinity. What was promised is that it will take a long time and will affect our decisions. Besides, I am bent on basic fairy tales, I believe in magical reality,

myths and legends of different nations - in their place I see the fabric of life, its abundance.

The big advantage for me is the structure, rhythm and assembly in the production process. And another choice: "the best words in the best mood". I learn a lot of languages ​​and work with them because I don't like strange language. One metaphor can describe more than one page of text.

If we were to ask the question about my creativity, I would say, "Take care and tell the story."

My interests: study of prose, narrative stories, architecture, anthropology and history of culture, blacksmith shops, study of memory, strit art, gastronomic culture, documentary projects

Additionally: the consultation of creative people, reading lessons
Potrfolio
Residence in Switzerland from the Pro Helvetia Foundation, November-December 2023

Won the selection of residents with the Verdingkinder project - children who were taken from single mothers, the poor, Gypsies and other segments of the population, and given to foster families and shelters. This lasted from the end of the 19th century until the 1960s.

Part of the residency was held in Bern, part in Kaserne in Basel.

Online exhibition (film photographs, cycle "Hontology")
Online exhibition ("Flashcards" - polaroids)

The goal of the project is to write a play about this phenomenon in 2024.

In addition, was engaged in the study of material culture and the properties of memory through the study of flea markets.

Support letter from "Pro Helvetia"

Cartoon "Once upon a Christmas" for Theos Media

screenwriter, curator of the project

Residence at the Artkommunalka Museum. Yerofeyev and others", Kolomna
Won the international grant competition in 2022.
During the month in Kolomna: wrote a play and prepared the exhibition "Pack up" - the history of objects through the eyes of Kolomna residents.

One of the resident residency - the last resort, the "memory storage" of Kolomna.

Director: Elena Levina

One of the fields of my interests - material culture, anthropology, history, memory and products, death. This project is based on the collection that the museum presents - everything from the 1960s to the present day.

Notebook for writing down where the children left off; "Red Moscow" perfume, slippers, clogs, a stoneless scarf - all this is a source of inspiration. They can spray and burn in silence. They are the key to the funeral.


The play «Alexander Nikolaevich, dear»

In the framework of a scholarship for talented youth from the Union of Theatrical Figures.

The basis of the play was a modern meeting of the Book Club dedicated to the "Penniless", and an additional plot is the last year of Ostrovsky's life and his relationship with his own characters. Authentic letters and diary entries of the playwright, questionnaires from dating sites and even posts from a women's forum find their place in this text.


The play "Great Rain" (short sheet of the "Chekhov non-fiction" laboratory, 2020)

Documentary film in which there is nothing but an author's phrase - only remarks. I wrote a diary of the son of Anton Pavlovic Chekhov, Pavla Yegorovich and the books written by Chekhov himself.

This is a dialogue without a dialogue. Yes, there are no words between the phrases "It was raining, the dust on the road was noticeable" and "The dog ate a yellow dove", which Pavel Yegorovich left behind by the name of Melikhov. with his son-in-law, a writer. But I can't help but cry. There are rhythms and rhymes inside, a very subtle lack of roots.

"Pavel Egorovich. He makes a big path from the house to the fence.

They roll the path around my house. He turns to Anton Pavlovic with a smile.

Anton Pavlovic. Life is coming great, great, and sits on the five-legged".

This idea took place at the Suzdal Animation Festival of ASPI (shorts, 2023) (cartoon in the "animated" genre "Chehov, I'm Your Father") and in the competition illustrated books by imprint A+A (long)
Stage of the laboratories of the Moscow Regional Theater doll "Little Girl", 2021.

Director: Konstantin Zemlyansky

The story of the world in which they learned to sell and buy souvenirs in various cocktails.
Invitations - very important resource

Оther projects

- The play "The River of Bones" (shortlist of the competition from the theater "Saturday"), 2021.
- A play based on Chekhov's notebooks and his father's diary, "Magnificent Rain" (shortlist of the Chekhov Pop Fiction Laboratory, 2020. With this idea, she participated in the pitching of the Suzdal Animation Festival from ASPI (short, 2023) and in the competition from imprint A+A (long))
- The play (Not)superfluous things about the things left and gone (won the Hunting for Reality festival in Theater.doc ). Read the play.
- The stage "The bar "Remembrance" in the laboratory of the Moscow Regional Puppet Theater, 2021.
- The play "Putsch, birds and Ghosts", shortlisted for the contest "Why do I remember this?" from the Yeltsin Center;
- participant of the laboratory "From writer to screenwriter" in Peredelkino, 2023;
- participant of the musical laboratory from the Theater-Theater in Perm, 2022;
- longlist of the short film competition "Sast", 2023.
- participant of the laboratory for writers in Veliky Novgorod (section "dramaturgy")
Collection of plays, 2021, collection of plays, 2023
- the author of scripts for non-fiction animation for the studio "Put out the Lights"

Education:

Herzen Russian State Pedagogical University, Faculty of Social Sciences, History (2006-2010);
St. Petersburg State University, Faculty of Journalism, Design in the Media (2010-2012)
HSE, project Management for social Projects,advanced training, 2015
graduate school of the Faculty of Sociology of St. Petersburg State University (Culture and Communication), 2016-2019
Lectures and teaching:

- "From the history of industrial architecture of St. Petersburg: from the depot to the gas tank" in the Open Living Room of the library named after Lermontov
- The course "Gastronomic journalism" at the Rzhevskaya library;
- "1824: St. Petersburg goes under the water" in the Open Living room of the library Lermontov's
- "The History of the Muruzi Mansion: Brodsky left the house" in the Open Living Room of the library Lermontov's
- drama classes for children.
- moderator of the discussion after the performance "No woman, no cry" by the Invisible Theater.

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