What Cannot Be Lost - online přednáška v Galerii VI PER
Galerie VI PER cordially invites you to an online presentation and discussion, which will take place on Monday, January 22, 2024, at 19:00 via the Zoom platform. Registration for the event is required here. The event is a complementary program of the exhibition Before the Future.
A community exists if it has memory. When it can tell stories about itself, imagine the future, touch the stones on which time has left its marks. However, we are currently at a point of temporal rupture in Ukraine. Russia wants to convince the world that we will not exist, do not exist, and have never existed. Our time has unraveled. We hold in our hands the ruins of a destroyed world that we love. We strive to understand what we must not lose to remain ourselves.
Where will our memory take root? After all, there are places in our memory that we cannot even touch because they are still in the hands of the enemy. The central point of the presented project is the Mariupol Drama Theater, which was hit by a bomb from the Russian army in March 2022. The remnants of the theater, where hundreds of people perished, were first covered with memorial plaques featuring portraits of Russian and Ukrainian writers before the building was demolished. We ask ourselves whether the theater will be restored upon returning to Mariupol. However, such reconstruction is not an immoral act – restoring the building could be argued to allow a crime to disappear as if it never existed. What, then, should the architecture of memories look like?
The memory statement is the result of a joint interdisciplinary reflection among architects, artists, and researchers of collective memory. The projects presented in the joint statement include spatial research and artistic gestures that connect the search for a language for commemorating the Russo-Ukrainian war and the idea of what war memorials are today.
Guests:
Oksana Dovgopolova is a co-founder and co-curator of the memory culture platform Past / Future / Art. She serves as a professor at the Department of Philosophy of Odessa University. She is a member of the Association of Memory Studies, the management and executive committee of the Ukrainian Association of Jewish Studies, and an author of scientific and educational publications. From 2018 to 2019, she developed the experimental unit Memory Lab at the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center. Oksana lives in Odessa and continues her work in Ukraine amidst the full-scale Russian invasion.
Saša Kurmaz, born in 1986 in Kyiv, Ukraine, where he currently lives and works. He is an interdisciplinary artist, using various media and approaches in his artistic practice, such as photography, video, public intervention, and situation, as well as diverse strategies to engage the audience through collaboration. The main theme of his work is social and political issues and the global challenges that Ukrainian society has faced in recent years. Kurmaz's works have been widely presented at many international exhibitions and festivals.
Prykarpatske Theater is an artistic collective whose members are united by their connection to Kolomyia, a city located in the Prykarpattia region of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast in western Ukraine. Their work reflects the traces left by four occupations throughout history in the region and brings them into a translocal dialogue. Collective members: Ivan Bazak, Roman Chimej, Jarema Malaščuk, Tereza Jakovyna, Ostap Jaščuk.
A community exists if it has memory. When it can tell stories about itself, imagine the future, touch the stones on which time has left its marks. However, we are currently at a point of temporal rupture in Ukraine. Russia wants to convince the world that we will not exist, do not exist, and have never existed. Our time has unraveled. We hold in our hands the ruins of a destroyed world that we love. We strive to understand what we must not lose to remain ourselves.
Where will our memory take root? After all, there are places in our memory that we cannot even touch because they are still in the hands of the enemy. The central point of the presented project is the Mariupol Drama Theater, which was hit by a bomb from the Russian army in March 2022. The remnants of the theater, where hundreds of people perished, were first covered with memorial plaques featuring portraits of Russian and Ukrainian writers before the building was demolished. We ask ourselves whether the theater will be restored upon returning to Mariupol. However, such reconstruction is not an immoral act – restoring the building could be argued to allow a crime to disappear as if it never existed. What, then, should the architecture of memories look like?
The memory statement is the result of a joint interdisciplinary reflection among architects, artists, and researchers of collective memory. The projects presented in the joint statement include spatial research and artistic gestures that connect the search for a language for commemorating the Russo-Ukrainian war and the idea of what war memorials are today.
Guests:
Oksana Dovgopolova is a co-founder and co-curator of the memory culture platform Past / Future / Art. She serves as a professor at the Department of Philosophy of Odessa University. She is a member of the Association of Memory Studies, the management and executive committee of the Ukrainian Association of Jewish Studies, and an author of scientific and educational publications. From 2018 to 2019, she developed the experimental unit Memory Lab at the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center. Oksana lives in Odessa and continues her work in Ukraine amidst the full-scale Russian invasion.
Saša Kurmaz, born in 1986 in Kyiv, Ukraine, where he currently lives and works. He is an interdisciplinary artist, using various media and approaches in his artistic practice, such as photography, video, public intervention, and situation, as well as diverse strategies to engage the audience through collaboration. The main theme of his work is social and political issues and the global challenges that Ukrainian society has faced in recent years. Kurmaz's works have been widely presented at many international exhibitions and festivals.
Prykarpatske Theater is an artistic collective whose members are united by their connection to Kolomyia, a city located in the Prykarpattia region of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast in western Ukraine. Their work reflects the traces left by four occupations throughout history in the region and brings them into a translocal dialogue. Collective members: Ivan Bazak, Roman Chimej, Jarema Malaščuk, Tereza Jakovyna, Ostap Jaščuk.
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