Machines of Potentiality: About Angels, Metaphysics, and Parallel Realities in Vadim Fishkin’s Works

Vadim Fishkin, born in Penza in the Soviet Union in 1965, has been living and working in Ljubljana since 1992. Fishkin is not merely an artist working with a variety of different media, but also an architect who studied at the Moscow Institute of Architecture, a stage designer, an “angel researcher”, a botanist, a spiritualist, a photographer, a pyrotechnician, an engineer, an inventor, and a geologist. Most recently, he collaborated as a set designer with the Slovenian choreographers Mateja Bucar, NSK’s theatre department Cosmokinetic Cabinet Noordung, and others.

During the Transnacionala trip(In the summer of 1996 an international group Read more