picture taken by Nadezhfida Davydova
The picture shows Arcady Tyurin of St. Petersburg’s Street Paper ‘Journey Home’ in a public performance piece. For Russians, access to social services is dependent on registration at an address. St. Petersburg has at least 54,000 unregistered individuals living in the city. To be registered you have to have proof of past residency, and without this you cannot get access to jobs, healthcare and other necessities to live. If you cannot get a job you cannot get an address. This means you cannot get registered. This is the vicious circle of homelessness in Russia.
In this short podcast interview, Arkady Tyurin of ‘New Social Solutions’ talks about new ’surviving technologies’, solutions to tackling social exclusion within St. Petersburg’s unregistered population.
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New Social Solutions also publishes Putdomoi (Journey Home), St. Petersburg’s Street Paper.
Design by Alexander Menus
Our flight stops off at somewhere called Riga, and I’m sitting here thinking’ Riga, where the hell is Riga? When we did arrive at Riga we got lost looking for our Russian transfer, and the staff were shouting our names over the PA to get our arses there and we finally found where we were supposed to go. The plane to Russia was a 40 seater with two propellars. At the Airport, Arkady was there to meet us.
He took us for coffee at 2 am and then to a hostel that reminded me of a commune I was in when I was younger.
Ade introduced his language tool to people at the hostel, something I have named the Welsh Computer (Ade is Welsh). This is a piece of Welsh slate and a stick of chalk.
Wake up first day in Russia, Ade is photographing everything in the room. The place we stayed in has a bordello above it and you can watch cctv footage of whose going up and coming back down. St. Petersburg is a very beautiful city. It is very big and everything looks very old. We used the metro for the first time, the escalator goes down for ages and all the architecture in the station and the design of the trains is very classical. The concentration is on design rather than what is practical. Travelling round is very difficult as the Russian alphabet has 36 letters and half of them are completely alien to me (no English translation here) Walking around the centre we saw someone selling kittens in the street…
…and a couple of young lads doing acrobatics in front of cars in the road
Our first meal was in a traditional pancake shop.Ade ordered a couple of salads. He was telling me how nice they were and that I should try them myself. When I told him they had chicken in he seemed a bit surprised, and he suddenly got ill. He says meat makes him ill, I wonder if he would have been ill if I had never told him there was meat in it.
Hi everyone, hope you doing well… I was meant to create something about the circus performance but it’s not going to happen, no yet… In the mean time here is George, we always chat at his flat while having a coffee and taking pictures of his work. We are very good mates and respect each other. I really like his work and things fro him are getting very excited, not only in terms of making a living selling his work but the work itself is evolving in amazing ways… but let’s not get in the way, PLEASE DO CLICK HERE TO LISTEN GEORGE AND HIS JOURNEY THROUGH ARTS… comments as always are very welcome…
Billy
Inside me, deep inside; that’s where she lives
Far from reality? I would say so. But there she is.
The distance is a mental gap that dissolves in shadows.
Does she have any feelings I wonder? Can her eyes see?
Ghost, my beloved ghost, keep feeding my seek mind
Keep the torment alive, never become a reality,
Keep being a ghost.
Yes, there she is; walking down the street, is that my ghost?
Yes, she has become a ghost as well, I never knew her.
No, I am happy to live with those two ghosts,
As far as they never meet.
City of ghosts, city of illusions, take me somewhere else.
Streets that belong to a memory that vanishes so fast.
Network of feelings, traffic of human flesh.
Tomorrow, yes tomorrow I will wake up thinking about you.
Billy
Hi everybody, these are the interviews i did with two squatters that can give us an idea of how squats can be place for art. To listen to Diego, click here. To listen to Val from former X-vortex click here and to listen to what people think about squats as place for art click here.
Hi everybody! i’m barti and i’ve been living in london in the last 6 months and these are some audio files that i made speaking a little about my experience until now. You can check. Click here to !
Hi everyone, I want to introduce you to Jaqui Chin, I met her at the podcast training and we had a really good time. She is a great person and very talented. Music, drawings, digital arts, she is doing everything! please no more written words, Click Here to listen to an interview I made to her about homelessness, arts and life.
Here are some of her paintings as well. Enjoy them!
Billy
Thank you for the opportunity to get involved to the festival. We wish the movement of international homeless festival could spread wider across the borders. -
about Koe to Kotoba to Kokoro noHeya (the Room of Voices Words and Hearts=Cocoroom)Non Profit Organization Cocoroom have made efforts to introduce social issues to the public and we have specialized our activities in art. In our headquarters Cocoroom located in Shin-Sekai region, Osaka in western Japan, we have unique guests everyday such as artists, homeless people, handicapped people, people Not in Employment, Education or Training, and people who have difficulty to be socialized. 
Cocoroom has been the place we can talk face by face, and that have created a lot of interesting art projects under the question “How can we become socially recognized?” Each of those movements are small, however, we hope it would give each person a warm embrace of heart to achieve wisdom of life.
What can I say? she is adorable, I’ve known her for four years now and she always brings you good feelings. I thing there is so much we could learn from people like her… but well, let’s not get in the middle of it. Last Wednesday we talked about art, dreams and experiences, PLEASE CLICK HERE to listen to a brief interview with Charmian, hope you enjoy it.
And the painting…
February 13, 2007 – 4:29 pm
Hello world from Ten Feet Away Art group. Last Tuesday we recorded The manifesto - voicing our own definitions of art. We will produce more audio in the future, in the mean time, please click here to listen to our manifesto…
Visual Arts group - Ten Feet Away
