English is the main language of OMSK ARCHIVE facebook group. It is a CLOSED group. OMSK ARCHIVE has 58 members. So it is a Tiny group. 855717037789613 is the identifier of this group with Facebook. 2015-02-12 00:04:07 is the closest date we have information about it.
Founded in 1995 and dissolving in 2008, OMSK created around 50 laboratory arts events, at venues including disused banks, boats, warehouses and cordoned off streets, and as far afield as New York, Oslo and Tokyo. During OMSK’s 13-year history approx 200 hours of film, video, sound and live event documentation was amassed.
OMSK created a platform for emerging and established artists whose practices involved performance, sound and moving image. These decadent events achieved notoriety and critical acclaim, the press likening OMSK to Warhol’s factory, the Burning Man Festival, Dada and punk rock. Bespoke projects such as EatOMSK, AtOMSK and OMSKRoam took the collective into provocative territory. In 2007 OMSK published OMSKBOOK, taking the element of the live event into the space of the bound volume, giving artists a set of blank pages to play with.
The OMSK archive soon to be launched, will consist of a range of videotape and other media (VHS, Hi8, DV, Beta SP, and more), meticulously digitised. The moving image art works and live performance documentation in the archive include animation, DIY filmmaking, installation, fiction, structural film, scratch video, documentary, pornography, comedy, agitprop, polemics and no budget feature. The films take critical, conceptual and often surreal attitudes to such things as the body, landscape, place and duration. This substantial collection also chronicles a vibrant period in arts culture in a rapidly changing East London. Many of the spaces where OMSK took place have since been subject to gentrification.