On September 16, 2010, at 12.00 at Zhulyany Airport Rinat Akhmetov’s Foundation for Development of Ukraine launches the grant programme for independent creative projects i³ [idea - impulse - innovation] and ivites everyone to the opening of the programme i³ that will start with the project I'm Being Late for the Plane That Can’t Be Missed by Alevtina Kakhidze.

Accreditation is required, so please call 044 502 52 12 or 050 474 34 42

Ms. Kakhidze will get a private plane at her disposal that will – probably – take her from Zhulyany Airport to any place she names, and back again. "Probably", since everything depends on the artist's wish. The route, departure time, taking the luggage on board – all these things she will decide on the spot following her own intuition. The project I’m Being Late for the Plane That Can’t Be Missed will become the metaphor of artist’s freedom and ability to subdue this freedom of creation, which also means the artist’s responsibility. The project will refer to the well-known statement “Dreams come true in art”.

This project by Alevtina Kakhidze will be the sequel of her own 2008 project presented at the Boundless Sphere exhibition supervised by Thomas Trummer. In late 2008, Ms. Kakhidze sent a strange picture-letter to several rich people of Ukraine that read as follows: “I’m an artist.  When someone asks me, if I can paint somebody’s portrait, a still life, a seascape – I always answer that I can paint anything. To be more precise, I used to say this. I don’t say it now. The point is that I realized I can’t paint one thing. I can’t paint the Earth how it would look from the illuminator of my own plane...” This naïve and incomprehensible letter finally came to Rinat Akhmetov’s Foundation. And the Foundation decided to act. If the artist can’t paint the Earth from the illuminator of her own plane, we’ll try to give her such a chance.

Alevtina Kakhidze, in her turn, will go even further. She will not only paint the Earth. Probably she won’t paint at all. She will do all the impossible, absurd and prohibited things that an ordinary passenger can’t do. She will test the durability of her dream.

Similarly, the grant programme i³ [idea – impulse – innovation] will become a response to the social demand – the need for independent financing of independent creative projects. We’d like to remind that there have been extremely few grant programmes for artists in Ukraine so far, which blocked the development of artistic initiatives. The i³ programme will become a response to this situation.  It will give the artists the opportunity for creative development in four cultural spheres: visual art, theatre, literature and museum business. Within the framework of i³ programme the grants will be allotted to the institutes and individual artists for creating artistic projects and for the business trips abroad (for participation in festivals, conferences, exhibitions, etc.). The independent Expert Board will make the grant decisions. The i³ programme strives to become a flexible and comfortable support platform for Ukrainian culture, promptly responding to the demands of cultural environment. Metaphorically speaking, i³ will become a plane given to creative people on their demand, like Alevtina Kakhidze’s plane that can’t be missed.

Profile
Alevtina Kakhidze is an artist, the prize-winner of the Kazimir Malevich Artist Award 2008, the winner of the contest of young artists and supervisors of NaUKMA Centre of Arts and Culture in 2002, the participant of numerous international and Ukrainian artistic projects, in particular, the exhibitions If (PERMM Museum of Contemporary Art in Perm, Russia), Changing World – Narrated Time (Academy of Arts, Berlin, Germany, National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kiev,  National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow, Russia, etc.), Boundless Sphere (NaUKMA Centre of Arts and Culture), etc.; the grant holder of Jan van Eyck Academy (Maastricht, Netherlands), resident of Open House Iaspis (Stockholm, Sweden), of Centre for Contemporary Art in Ujazdów Castle (Warsaw, Poland), etc.; the co-founder of the private residence for foreign artists in Muzychi village and online art portal www.kram.in.ua. For more information please go to  www.alevtinakakhidze.com

The Alevtina Kakhidze Project I’m Being Late for the Plane That Can’t Be Missed

Route and schedule (if you want to join)

The project I’m Being Late for the Plane That Can’t Be Missed is an artistic endeavour spanned over time.  Each detail here is an essential component of the entire picture. Therefore the artist’s way from her own house to the much-coveted plane is an important and meaningful part of the project. The spectator needs to understand why the artist has chosen this particular way, means of transport, clothes and luggage. The contrast between Ms. Kakhidze’s way to the airport and the fact that “her own” private plane is waiting for her there, allows to understand the artist’s actions, for example, as follows: no matter what strange and absurd things the artist may do, sometimes this activity becomes the key to everything impossible in an ordinary life.  Since the artist’s way to the airport is an important part of the project, we give the detailed schedule and route of her movements under the project I’m Being Late for the Plane That Can’t Be Missed.
 

1 •    The artist starts her way to the airport
         at 9.30 a.m. from her house at Lugova str. 9a, Muzychi village (1)
         walking to the station of the bus No.727 Muzychi – Centre (2)

2 •    9.55—10.15a.m.
         taking a bus No.727 going to Danilovka up to the crossroads of
         Boyarka and L. Skitka roadways (3)

3 •    10.16—10.31
         hitchhiking from the crossroads of Boyarka and L. Skitka roadways (3) to       

         Boyarka railway station (4)

4 •    11.29—11.43
         taking a suburban train from Boyarka railway station (4) to Kievo-Volynsky 

         railway station. (5)
         The ticket should be bought 15 minutes before the departure.

5 •    11.43—11.59
         walking from Kievo-Volynsky railway station to Kiev airport

6 •    12.00 the plane 

The time of arrival to locations 2-6 is approximate, late arrivals are possible, depending on the accuracy of the public transport timetable.