WHEN
Friday, 27 February 2015, 13.00 – 18.00 (with registration from 12.30)
WHERE
Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 0RN
Research Forum at The Courtauld Institute of Art
TICKETS
£16 (£11 cons)
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Or send a cheque made payable to ‘The Courtauld Institute of Art’ to: Research Forum Events Co-ordinator, Research Forum, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 0RN, stating ‘Ukrainian Art symposium’. For further information, email [email protected]
Organised by:
Svitlana Biedarieva and Klara Kemp-Welch (The Courtauld Institute of Art)
Speakers:
Konstantin Akinsha (Curator, New York, Guest Fellow Max Webber Kolleg, Erfurt);
Susanne Clausen (Artist, London);
Pavlo Kerestey (Artist, London);
Alisa Lozhkina (Curator and Editor-in-Chief of ‘Art Ukraine’, Kiev);
Roman Minin (Artist, Kharkiv);
Nikita Shalenny (Artist, Dnepropetrovsk).
PROGRAMME
12.30 – 13.00 Registration
13.00 – 13.05 Welcome – Klara Kemp-Welch (The Courtauld Institute of Art)
13.05 – 13.20 Introduction – Svitlana Biedarieva (The Courtauld Institute of Art)
SESSION 1: Cultural Codes and Power in Contemporary Ukrainian Art
13.20 – 13.50 Roman Minin (Artist, Kharkiv): The Cultural Code of the Donetsk Area.
13.50 – 14.20 Nikita Shalenny (Artist, Dnepropetrovsk): “Berkut”: The Case of People in Masks.
14.20 – 14.50 Alisa Lozhkina (Curator and Editor-in-Chief of Art Ukraine, Kiev): Aesthetics of Authority vs. Aesthetics of Revolution. The Ukrainian Experience.
14.50 – 15.30 Panel discussion
15.30 – 16.00 TEA/ COFFEE BREAK (provided – Seminar Room 1)
SESSION 2: Towards Europe? Social Explosion and Divided Identity
16.00 – 16.30 Film “Museum Revolution: Art Born on the Barricades”, directed by Natalia Babintseva. Introduction by Anatoly Golubovsky.
16.30 – 17.00 Konstantin Akinsha (Curator, New York, Guest Fellow Max Webber Kolleg, Erfurt): Curating the Revolution.
17.00 – 17.30 Pavlo Kerestey and Susanne Clausen (Artists, London): Szuper Gallery: we met after the wall came down and where are we now? Unsettling the Setting between East and West and so on and a new proposal for working beyond the military academy.
17.30 – 18.30 Panel discussion and closing remarks
18.30 RECEPTION
Further information and ABSTRACTS here: http://www.courtauld.ac.uk/researchforum/events/2015/spring/UkrainianArt.shtml
About the event
‘Ukrainian Art Now: Spaces of Identity’ examines the cultural dimensions of the social reload that found its expression in the revolutionary Maidan events of November 2013-February 2014. Building on the unprecedented number of recent cultural events devoted to Ukrainian art worldwide (among others the touring exhibition ‘I am a Drop in the Ocean: Art of the Ukrainian Revolution’), our symposium brings together leading Ukrainian artists and curators to discuss identity, protest and the social legacies of contemporary Ukrainian art in relation to key political changes and cultural transformations.
Our main aim is to interrogate changes in the field of Ukrainian identity as these are being expressed in visual and conceptual terms. If, for decades, Ukraine lacked new symbols with which to integrate its two major language groups and to accommodate an expanded variety of cultural perspectives, the new mythologies emerging from the flames of the uprising suggest that Ukrainian culture is now breaking with the post-Soviet symbolic model, moving towards new forms of self-identification. Contemporary art’s enormous potential as a vehicle for representing and analysing these processes makes it a crucial point of reference for any consideration of current affairs in the region.
The symposium addresses the following questions: How have contemporary artists in Ukraine reacted to the social critique that caused the unrest, prompting radical social transformations? To what extent have artists been critical in their engagement with recent political tensions? What visions of internal and international relations have they proposed? We explore how artists have negotiated the trauma of recent violence, and consider how the doubts and hopes played out in the protests are being expressed in contemporary Ukrainian artistic practices.
Event website http://www.courtauld.ac.uk/researchforum/events/2015/spring/UkrainianArt.shtml