RUNNING IN A ROUTINE:
Performance on the Blockchain
“Running in a Routine” by Movsum is a digital art project that explores the impact of everyday objects on human existence. Initially focused on a symbolic running figure, the project now emphasizes how objects like fashion items and coffee shape our routines and societal standards. “Running in a Routine” symbolizes the influence these objects have on our lives, reflecting a collective routine dominated by material interactions. Movsum’s project serves as a critical examination of material and societal constructs, encouraging viewers to reconsider the objects that define their lives and offering a nuanced perspective on the interplay between materiality and human existence”
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Realisation of an idea
After I release the “Expressive Space (2023) ” collection, I write an article on medium and I’m creating my own website (I’ve been working all summer) I give myself a rest for 10 days . During this vacation, for some reason, I have thoughts of going over and working with objects, but I begin to ignore it internally. After the rest, I return to drawing and for some reason I can’t draw the ideas that I was inspired by throughout the rest.
The idea of giving myself a challenge and getting out of the comfort zone and trying to work with objects and objects does not leave my head. Days turn into weeks. at this moment in my life I am experiencing a moment similar to a routine that I want to get rid of, but I cannot get out of this routine. One day, walking down the street, I come across a road sign where two people are running, and my “Love” sticker is glued on it (I glued it back in 2021) and for some reason this sign does not get out of my head
Digging inside this sign and finding questions for this sign, I remember the silhouette of the running man, the author of which is designer Thomas Fournier (95 % of people think it’s a Bauhaus, but it’s not) although I also thought it was a Bauhaus, but today I want everyone to know that the author of this running man is Thomas Fournier , who created it in his student days in 2011 . Great respect for him and his skill, I think I should have told you this here. Having found it on the Internet (thinking that it is a reference from the Bauhaus ) I just disconnect from everything, move away from my colors to more pastel ones and start working on this silhouette, falling in love with it at first sight. Many artists know that an artist begins to think about the story he wants to tell after he finishes a piece and begins to wonder. When finishing a piece, I immediately just realize that this is not just a running person in my composition, but this is me who is living the routine of life.
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First introduction to routine
And I started noticing the routine from the time when I started working as a waiter in a hard rock cafe, I needed money to continue dancing and go to championships, and experiencing a crisis in the dance world from the money side, I had to go get a job, then I had only two days off a week and the rest of the days I he worked for 12 hours ( while receiving 1000 USD per month ) . I started combining workouts on weekdays after work. The guys gathered for me after 02:00 am in the gym to support me and we trained until the morning, and then I went home, slept for 5 hours and got up and went to work. Working in a cafe, everything seemed very good to me, every time I came to work I was happy, but until the moment I got acquainted with the daily of routine. The routine started running before my eyes after 6 months, when there started to be a lot of work, I just started getting acquainted with the routine. After taking orders and bringing food, I started chatting with him and we somehow became friends. At first, I started to treat it very well, because there wasn’t much negativity in this routine and I just started not to take it for something else’s, but to take it for something of my own and making it a kind of lifestyle that I didn’t really like (but I had to) A year later, I just started to see how I started to become a victim of the routine, I didn’t know how to get out. I thought that I had already completely become a routine and started to feel like a system. Who had only 2 missions to come to work and leave , and I started attending training sessions once a week , as I was starting to get very tired at work . in 2020, when covid-19 happened, when no one could go outside for a year, I just started to withdraw into myself and the routine completely began to eat me from head to toe and I did not understand what to do, training at home began to save me, but it was not enough. I felt that I got rid of one routine in principle, but my life was thrown into a maze that consisted of 4 walls. in 2021, in January, I was called back to work ( everything began to be restored in principle) , one day walking down the street with a friend, I accidentally stumble upon one building and at that moment I love to take pictures, but for some reason I take pictures of everything in the style of geomeotry and imagining the street as a canvas and the building or escolators as shapes and colors. And when I take a picture of a building, I fall in love with it and see my reflection in colors, shapes , etc. And I immediately realize what I want to do next in my life (because at that moment I was living through a creative crisis in dancing) it happens like some kind of strange magic.
To be honest, at that moment I didn’t have a mac book or anything else. I don’t even think about making this decision and I come to my parents and tell them that help me buy a MacBook. I have the last 300 dollars left. In February 2021, I come to work (after a long break due to covid 19), and at that moment I get a new position as head waiter at work, and I have a lot of choice left. So far, without telling anyone anything, I just work one day, come home and realize that I have begun to feel my old friend (routine) again. When I come to work in the morning, I declare that I will leave work this week. Colleagues ask the question, why? I just tell them that I have a dream, and for some reason I can’t give it up. After going up to the GM (general manager) and talking with him for about two hours, he offers me different options so that I stay. He tells me that you are risking everything in this life, and there are a lot of competitors in this field, and you will be a beginner. He tells me that you are a very potential employee and you may have a great future here, to which I reply: Thanks, but I’ll have to give up everything. And I understand that it’s not the General Manager talking to me, but it’s a reflection of my routine, which doesn’t want to let me go. When I sign my resignation letter, I’m just a little scared, because it seems like I’m completely saying goodbye to my former friend (routine) and rushing into the unknown with only the hope, faith and trust of my loved one.On the first day when I come to the course, I feel light, inspired and motivated. And at that moment, the teacher was asking everyone why they decided to come and study design. When it’s my turn, I just reply that I want to transfer dancing to a digital canvas, and I just have a dream that I want to make a reality. And since then, there have been different routines in my life, at first I became a victim again, but then I got out of this routine
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Routine in the web-3 space and daily life
And when I created the running man in routine , inspired by Thomas Fournier design, I decided to conduct a complete experiment in our space. I started applying my style to the silhouette of a running man (authored by Thomas) in the colors Cow Grant Yun, Squiggles by Snowfrow, Pepe. By doing this, I wanted to show that one of the important routines of our space are these magnificent works of art and which are associated with digital art
Then I decided to create running people from emoji smilestaken from our gadgets to show you that as a phone is our daily routine, that after spending a lot of time on the phone and on social networks, we can sometimes miss things that surround us in the real world and lose the enjoyment of this life that nature and God gave us
And then I create an ENS and leave it for the whole half year as the main wallet of my address, which shows the runners in a smiley face. But it was all just a performance and an experiment that I was doing all the time
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The routine of a man running amongst objects
After a while, I create objects and the first object becomes a shoe that was inspired by the art of Andy Warhol. And by doing this, I want to convey to people that how fashion has become one of the big routines of modern life and how people run after it and obey what fashion dictates to them
Then after a while I realize that I have to continue working with objects and I write Twitter addressing my subscribers and friends and wait for an answer to come out that can be closer to the routine of our lives and friend Aleqth writes a banana and I immediately after making a banana understand that the routine has found
And then I create a composition from a chair and give it the name stress, a chair is a routine that never loses relevance, especially in the 21st century.Most of the time, people work in a sitting position without getting up from it, and often they experience both stress and joy while sitting on it
I want to introduce you to 16 pieces with objects that I prepared for this day. These objects are one of the main routines of our lives and often spending time in this routine we become a victim of our own routine without even realizing it all. I wanted not only to show a big problem that is popular for a modern person, but also to immerse myself in the things that surround the person himself. The way he comes into contact with them, connects them with his life until the moment when he decides to break this thin thread on which the routine rests
The performance was initiated from 1 October in 2023 and was released on the blockchain on 7 March in 2024.