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About ORTA
ORTA is an artistic group of actor and artist Alexandra Morozova (b.1982) and director and composer Rustem Begenov (b.1983) from Almaty, Kazakhstan. Highly experimental projects of ORTA are called The New Genius Theatre and incorporate theatre, contemporary art, music, film, technology, and philosophy, as well as traditional crafts, customs, and ritual practices in order to explore the mysterious and all-encompassing Universal Composition underlying the visible world. The New Genius Theatre is based on the ideas and figure of the thinker, artist, and inventor Sergey Kalmykov (1891-1967) who was The First Kazakhstani Genius of the First Rank of The Earth, Space and Their Environs.
Selected projects: Pop-mechanical performance "Medea.Material" (co-production with Goethe-Institute, NET-2016 festival participant, nomination to Kuryokhin Gran-prix award); large-scale technological mystery Svetoprestavleniye Sergey Kalmykov (NEW DRAMA-2018 festival headliner, nomination to Kuryokhin Gran-prix award); LAI-PI-CHU-PLEE-LAPA Center for the New Genius (national pavilion of Kazakhstan at the 59th Venice Biennale, 2022).
Articles
Elena Kovalskaya, Catalogue for the Kazakhstan's pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale—The first New Genius Book "Sacred expositions of the Great and Immortal Lai-Pi-Chu-Plee-Lapa", 2022
ORTA as Constructors of Hope (en)
Dmitriy Mazorenko, Catalogue for the Kazakhstan's pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale—The first New Genius Book "Sacred expositions of the Great and Immortal Lai-Pi-Chu-Plee-Lapa", 2022
In the studio with… ORTA collective (en)
ORTA is a multidisciplinary Kazakh artist collective made up of Alexandra Morozova, Rustem Begenov, Darya Jumelya, Alexandr Bakanov and Sabina Kuangaliyeva. Their work encompasses performance, music, painting, sculpture and embroidery. Their most recent installation, LAI-PI-CHU-PLEE-LAPA, created for Kazakhstan’s first-ever national pavilion at the Venice Biennale, explores the concept of ‘New Genius’ through the work of the artist, writer and inventor Sergey Kalmykov (1891–1967).
20 Apr 2022, Apollo International Art Magazine
Коллектив ORTA, Манифест Новой Гениальности (ru)
К первому национальному павильону Казахстана на Венецианской Биеннале
20 Apr 2022, ORTA, Vlast.kz
The ORTA Collective on Representing Kazakhstan at the 59th Venice Biennale (en)
The ORTA collective, founded in 2015 by director Rustem Begenov and actress Alexandra Morozova, is representing Kazakhstan, marking the country’s first participation in the biennale.
15 Apr 2022, ArtReview
Центр универсальных искусств ORTA: «То, что мы сейчас делаем – весело. Мы кураторы самих себя» (ru)
Художники о запуске Тотальной перформативной
инсталляции-лаборатории и Первого Реактора Видимых Явлений
20 Jan 2021, Vladislav Sludskiy, Vlast.kz
"FRAGILE ORCHESTRA" — MUSICAL PRACTICE IN THE PROJECTS OF ART GROUP ORTA (en)
Alexandra Morozova and I founded ORTA in 2015 as an interdisciplinary company in which music would play a key role.
Sep 2021, Rustem Begenov, Angime