The Artist in Residence program of MOKS invited Holzer and Kolster for a short residence-project 'Postsovkoz Isolation' at the beginning of the tour. During ten days thirteen internation artists coming from various different backgrounds, created artistic work within the theme 'Isolation'.

The live audiovisual performance took place on the last day of Postsovkoz. Derek collaborated with Maksis Shentelev and they were responsible for the sound part of the performance. Many of the recordings they made during the time in Mooste, were used, manipulated, mixed and processed. Sara used images of the positive film she shot with a mediumformat camera earlier this week, mixed with a manipulation of film materials. See more pictures --> click here

The isolation of details from their environment will give them a different meaning. Each detail or object, most of the time unnoticable, has its own story. Seeing them apart from eachother, within another environment, or even its own, but represented by another medium, influences the perception of the location, context and the isolated elements themselves. In psychiatry isolation has a similar meaning. It represents a defense mechanism in which memory of an unacceptable act or impulse is separated from the emotion originally associated with it. For the presenation of the images Sara Kolster made ten small lightboxes of the size of a medium format slide [6x6cm]. Because she wanted to mount the boxes on the trees in the parc of Mooste, they had to run on batteries. A very temporary business, since the bycicle lights would slowly fade out after approximately 5-6 hours. After all, there was a little bit of research involved, which Kolster already did before her arrival in Mooste, preparing herself for the isolation.. See more pictures --> click here