savva e dudin
(b. 1994)
NL/RU
savvadu at gmail
Leiden/Berlin
NL/RU
savvadu at gmail
Leiden/Berlin
artist
game-designer
researcher,
Growing up in Moscow Savva studied political philosophy at the Higher School of Economics with exchange fellowships at Humboldt and Stanford universities, focusing on the utopian Soviet cybernetic social-engineering projects of the 1920s and 1960s, asking how multidirectional memories formed intergenerational subjectivity. In 2022 he began studying the algorithmic regimes of seeing images during the military emergency state at the Dutch Institute of Arts.
Currently Savva is pursuing an Artistic PhD project in Leiden University Academy of Creative and Performing Arts named "Playing against the End" examines how participatory games can act as architectural spaces for civic repair and collective action. The work emphasises the transformative potential of legal fictioning — a playful approach to distributing law-making and governing agency from the top down to more equal power constellations. Through various speculative organisations, rehearsals, and real work councils, Savva explores generative aspects of alienation, positioning it as a productive tool to foster resonance and long-term solidarity.
During years of practice as a learning designer, Savva was focused on tools developing a better capacity to navigate one's attention from easily manipulated fast, semi-automatic judgments to vigilant, effortful, and slow thinking, thus enabling one to tolerate ambiguity through somatic, affective, and reflective awareness. The recurrent query of artistic research goes: How can alienation from the self be designed as a more generative than an extractivist form of attention?
Juggling participation: Power-over, Power-to and power-with
(teaching)
Vleehsaal, Middelburg, NL