WHEN: 17 March, 18:00 – 20:00
WHERE:
16 Taviton Street, London, WC1H 0BW
FREE
About this event
This event is organised by UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies.
The Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Centre (BYHMC) is a project currently under development on the site of a ravine near Kyiv where 34,000 Jews were murdered by Nazi occupiers in September 1941. This talk by Anna Kamyshan, former Director of Conceptual Development and Research Projects at BYHMC, will focus on the creative concept she developed during her work on the project. The talk will discuss the project’s ambitions as well as the resistance it met in Ukrainian society. It will describe how the concept behind the project grew, from a traditional museum to a large-scale transformation of the territory and landscape; and the conceptual, political and architectural dimensions this shift in scale and focus entailed.
The Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial has been damaged by a missile attack since the Russian invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022.
About the speaker
Anna Kamyshan is an artist, architect and curator. She was born in Lviv and currently resides in Kyiv.