olya
salimova
15ē, fifteenth element (@fifteenth_element), is an art salon and a place of practice and rehearsal where we share dreams and doings.
we are artists and art-minded people. we gather for dialogue, performance, contemplation, and experiment with the goal to expand our connectedness and friendship, support each other and create possibilities and change.
our strategies
we are drawn to the environments of cross-pollination. we work in many genres and we collaborate. we know that hybrid spaces nurture under-explored parts of creativity and bear the sweetest of fruits. we embrace change. we learn from each other because together we produce knowledge. change is impossible without personal transformation – we use our speech, bodies, affinities.
to make art, talk and learn among like-minded fellows builds an ecosystem that supports the bringing-forward of humanness, friendship, solidarity for art, deep intentionality, transformation, and new reality. we excited to see what we can learn and make of this togetherness and what reality, no matter improbable, can spring to life.
we gather like bees in thinking and tongue.
we building a new reality.
we recognize that artists, and some of us are migrants, are people with tottering support systems who are left to rely on radical rethinking and (re)building of reality and the world, creating possibilities and spinning up communities around them. our allegiance is to these goals. it enables us to make the art we make
join us!