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EMANUEL ALMBORG
Emanuel Almborg, Talking Hands (Говорящие руки), 2016
HD video and 16mm film transferred to HD video, 48 minutes

Talking Hands is a film about the 1960s Zagorsk school for deaf-blind children outside Moscow, and its pedagogy. The school was established by Evald Ilyenkov, who, in contention with dominant Soviet ideology, began developing ideas of how human consciousness is socially constituted and emerges in relation to material culture, objects, and tools. Inspired by Spinoza, Ilyenkov conceptualized the “thinking body,” that is, a body’s capacity to “mould its own action actively to the shape of any other body, to coordinate the shape of its movement in space with the shape and distribution of all other bodies” as a fundamental feature of “thinking” or “reason.” For Ilyenkov, communism was a pedagogical project for such a vision and subject to emerge. Or as Alexander Suvorov, one of Ilyenkov’s deaf-blind students described, “Who told you we see nothing and hear nothing? We see and hear through the eyes and ears of our friends, all people, the entire human race.” The film focuses on Suvorov, whom Almborg met in his home in a Moscow suburb. For a few evenings, they spoke with the help of two translators, from English to Russian and from Russian to tactile signing and back—a slow, fragmented conversation marked by misunderstandings and translation errors that served as the basis for the film’s dialogue. The film also includes 16mm archive footage documenting the teaching and activities around the Zagorsk school in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The filmmaker and exact date of the footage are unknown; when Almborg found it in the archives in Moscow the only information attached to it was the title “Talking Hands.”

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Emanuel Almborg is an artist based in Stockholm and London. He works in a wide range of media with a focus on the moving image. He finished the Whitney Independent Study program in New York in 2015, and is currently a PhD candidate at The Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm. His work has recently been shown at the Kyiv Biennial, at Bienal de São Paulo, and at Whitechapel Gallery, London.

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