Peripheries: international residency at Khata-Maysternya
August 8, 2023 – August 30, 2023
Is there a periphery of war? Is there a territory of human existence where catastrophe and art meet? (we)art—>periphery(we).
Will the encounter of total art and total war ever happen in real time?
The international residency “Peripheries” is dedicated to the themes of decentralization, humanism, and interdisciplinarity. By rejecting the idea of the center and the periphery in this project, an open and flexible program format was proposed, allowing more space to explore the idea against the hermeticism of people and their practices. The varied geography of different people narrowed down to a common place for forming a temporary community. The residency was a point of meeting and intersection where it was possible to exhale, reflect on the past and present, and try to imagine the future. The residents were not expected to complete a finished project. We offered a space for joint reflections, rest, and/or work-in-progress.
Curator:
- Yaroslav Futymskyi – an artist from Ukraine. His main practices are performance, graphics, illustration, photography, installation, poetry.
Participants:
- Kateryna Aliinyk – an artist originally from Luhansk, living in Kyiv since 2014. She works with painting and recently with text, exploring the themes of war and the occupation of Donbas through depictions of nature and anthropocentric optics.
- Oleksandra Kushchenko – an art historian and art critic from Lviv. Founder of the media outlet about visual art in Lviv, Art Lviv Online. She researches the art environment and documents the artistic process.
- Valentyna Petrova – an artist and curator. Her practices focus on themes of labor, poverty, discursive violence, and institutional critique.
- Daniil Revkovskyi – an artist from Kharkiv working with video and installation. Since 2010, he has been exploring the theme of collective memory in the post-Soviet space.
- Mariia Rusinkevych – an artist from Ivano-Frankivsk, originally from Kalush. She uses graphics, video art, and installations. She sometimes addresses anthropomorphic and zoomorphic motifs, sometimes centralizing the human.
- Illia Todurkin – an artist from Mariupol, living in Lviv. He works with graphics and sculpture, and also keeps micro diaries.
- Anna Khvyl – a sound artist, electronic musician, composer, researcher, and curator from Kyiv. She recently completed her master’s degree in sonology at The Hague Conservatory.
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The residency was implemented within the framework of the “What’s Next?” project in partnership with the Gabriela Tudor Foundation (Romania), MitOst (Germany), MUSIKTHEATERTAGE WIEN (Austria), Wrocław Institute of Culture (Poland) та zusa (Germany). Supported by the European Union.
The views and opinions expressed are solely those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency. Neither the European Union nor the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency can be held responsible for them. >з питань освіти, аудіовізуальних засобів і культури не можуть нести відповідальність за них.
Photo by Yaroslav Futymskyi