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Donnerstag, 15. Mai 2014 - 19:00 Uhr
Künstlerhaus
"Revolution" in the Ukrainian contemporary cultural field - Eintritt frei
Künstlerhaus, Obergeschoß
15. Mai 2014, 19 Uhr
SAY IT. UA> vol.3
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"Revolution" in the Ukrainian contemporary cultural field
In its third edition SAY IT. UA> looks at the situation of the art and culture scene in Ukraine, which is hardly known outside of the country compared to the widely discussed political situation. Since the independence of Ukraine the art and cultural scene has its own tempo of development with steps forward and backwards. The revolution of 2014 has given a new opportunity for a bigger jump and a significant change in this field as well. SAY IT. UA> invites experts and insiders to discuss and answer the questions that evolve in the current situation.
Language: English or/and German.
Live stream:
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/say-it3
Live Skype session in Q&A format:
Anatoliy Babiychuk
Artist, alumnus of Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and Slade School of Fine Art, London. Lives and works in Vienna, Austria and Chervonograd, Ukraine.
Nikita Kadan
Artist, member of Hudrada.
Hudrada (Creative committee in Ukrainian) acts as
curatorial and activist interdisciplinary group. Projects organised by Hudrada are based on discussion combining the experience of participants. These projects have form of exhibitions, which become a platform for theoretical work, and public campaigns using posters and screenings in city space.
Alisa Lozhkina
ART UKRAINE’s editor-in-chief, Deputy Director of Mystetskyi Arsenal, curator of the exhibition “I am a drop in the ocean: art of the Ukrainian revolution”. The most famous projects: a supervisor KGGI “Lavra”, an editor of the rubric of ART Magazine TOP10; the article about Kyiv squats “The Paris Commune and the prosperity of Kyiv “Soho” and a series of essays on contemporary Ukrainian art from the 80s until 2010 under a Point Zero title in co-authorship with O. Solovyev.
Hedwig Saxenhuber
Freelance curator and co-editor of the arts periodical Springerin. Since 2005 Artistic Director (together with Christian Kravagna) at Kunstraum Lakeside at Klagenfurt. Curator of the Second Kyiv International Biennale of Contemporary Art – ARSENALE 2015. Her recent large-scale projects include “Unrest of Form – Imagining the Political Subject” (together with Georg Schöllhammer and Stefanie Carp, Vienna Festival, MQ, 2013).
Georg Schöllhammer
Curator, author, and publisher. Founding editor of the authoritative arts periodical Springerin and editor at dOCUMENTA12, and chief of transit.at. Curator of the Second Kyiv International Biennale of Contemporary Art – ARSENALE 2015. Among his large-scale contemporary arts projects is also a forthcoming “tranzit” (New Museum, New York, 2014).
Larisa Venediktova
Performer, director and curator, active member of The Assembly for Culture in Ukraine, an open group of cultural workers and activists for developing principles of systemic changes in the field of culture, created in February 2014 after the government has fallen.
In cooperation with SAY IT
SAY IT is a series of events. Each of them includes an exhibition of contemporary art and discussion on current issues in societies with virulent changes in their development processes. Each time the current problems of one single country are being picked out as a central theme. SAY IT is a specific format of an exhibition space and informative panel initiated by Anna Khodorkovskaya and Anastasiya Yarovenko in cooperation with Hans Knoll. This idea arose in response to the current pulsing situation in Ukraine.